Older YouTube videos may not have "
View in Higher Quality" links below them. But by using the following parameter in the URL, you'll be able to watch anything in higher quality (HQ)!
Examples:
Low Quality (LQ) -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5DNZHR0oI8
High Quality (HQ) -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5DNZHR0oI8&fmt=18
How it works:
Just add "
&fmt=18" to the end of the URL at the address bar of your web-browser and press the Enter button. That's all! You get Higher Quality YouTube video.
The URL will now look like the following one
Code:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5DNZHR0oI8&fmt=18
And the following YouTube video was made Higher Quality (HQ) by this hack: