Force (HD) 1080p on Youtube videos for viewers? Possible? dafuq?

[Mister K]

So I have recently uploaded a Youtube video on behalf of someone, and before I know it, they have jumped at me, telling me that the video is not playing in HD (720p/1080p) by default when they hit play on Facebook.

Now as far as I am aware, Youtube does not offer such feature to force video playback on viewers to HD (720p+) due to obvious reasons such as people with poor internet connection speeds and old hardware not being able to view it.

However this individual keeps insisting that there is a possibility to set it to 720p and or 1080p and forcing it on the viewers. Is this so or em I going crazy trying to convince myself they are wrong? :/

Thanks in Advance

[Dedweight]

I've only ever updated one video to Youtube and that was ages ago(pre-Cata) and don't remember seeing any setting like that, though I honestly didn't look. That said have them upload it and look for a setting?

[Mister K]

I don't think that's a possibility really. Thanks for the reply tho!

PS: This is what I found.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2...-1080p-quality
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2060920
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...ideos-in-1080p

[Axphism]

It's up to your friend to add ?hd=1 when he is embedding the youtube video to force people to automatically use HD.

For example, clicking this link should force it to start playing in HD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lg_k1SwrQ0&hd=1

[Mister K]

It's up to your friend to add ?hd=1 when he is embedding the youtube video to force people to automatically use HD.

For example, clicking this link should force it to start playing in HD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lg_k1SwrQ0&hd=1

Did this url change and still plays in 360p or 480p. I've tried with the other url modifications as posted on stackoverflow and neither work.

100Mb up/down so it's not that :/

[glo]

The extensions were disabled after they released adaptive resolutions. If you fullscreen a video, it will eventually select the best video resolution automatically.

[Axphism]

Try opening a new tab with that url instead of editing an existing one. I promise it works. I just tested it several times.

[Mister K]

The extensions were disabled after they released adaptive resolutions. If you fullscreen a video, it will eventually select the best video resolution automatically.

Boom, thank you! I knew something has changed.

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Try opening a new tab with that url instead of editing an existing one. I promise it works. I just tested it several times.

Il try it on Youtube embed on FB.

Edit:
Nope, on new tab, on same tab and embed, does not force HD :/ No worries, the point was reassurance on my part.

[Asmekiel]

The only way I get YouTube to actually use HD, regardless of any settings, is to use a browser addon. I'm using YouTube High Definition for that.

[Deleted]

The only way I get YouTube to actually use HD, regardless of any settings, is to use a browser addon. I'm using YouTube High Definition for that.

Same here or well a similar Chrome extension just with tons of other options:

Magic Actions for YouTube™

It can also help with buffering, let you use different viewing modes, snapshots, Works with HTML5 etc.