24 March 2008

Higher quality YouTube movies

I was complaining about the low resolution of movies when watching fly fishing and fly tying clips on YouTube. With the standard low quality you can't see the strike, the details of the fly or even whether it's a rainbow or a brown trout!

Now, I found out that you can change the resolution simply by changing the settings in YouTube itself! Change the video quality to high quality in your Accounts menu. If the clip is uploaded in high quality, you'll be able to view it in a higher quality as well. Obviously you'll need a broadband internet connection to enjoy the high quality video.


Now we're at it:
With TubeTV you can download YouTube clips, convert and save them into your wanted codec, including the high quality H.264 codec. Sorry guys, this TubeTV is a Mac-only application.


About my next trip:
It's planned for the week of 12 May 2008.