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Youtube You know that site with videos and all. Yeah! It turns out that its quite popular and you happen to visit and use it quite often. Instead of just searching and playing here are some top Youtube URL tricks that you should know about:

1. View high quality videos

Youtube gives you the option to switch to high quality videos for some of the videos, however you can check if a video is available in high quality format by appending &fmt=18(stereo, 480 x 270 resolution) or &fmt=22(stereo, 1280 x 720 resolution) for even higher quality.

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2. Embed Higher Quality Videos

While the above trick works for playback, if however you want to embed hig quality videos you need to append &ap=%2526fmt%3D18 and &ap=%2526fmt%3D22 to the embed url.

3. Cut the chase and link to the interesting part

Linking to a video where the real action starts at 3 minutes 22 seconds, wondered if you could make it start at 03:22? You are in luck. All you have to do is add #t=03m22s (#t=XXmYYs for XX mins and YY seconds) to the end of the URL.

4. Hide the search box

The search box appears when you hover over an embedded video. To hide the search box add &showsearch=0 to the embed url.

5. Embed only a part of Video

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