Grabbing HD videos from YouTube

[rado]

Does anyone know how to grab a HD 720p video from YouTube? It always starts up in either 360p or 480p, same if you do a refresh after having shifted to 720p, and RMC doesn't restart the recording if you shift to 720p after it has started recording.

Here's a sample video with the 720p option:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY

[stream-recorder.com]

If you log into your youtube account, you can change the settings:
http://www.youtube.com/account#playback/quality

If you don't want to register, you can still launch an HD video. Just add &fmt=22 to the URL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY&fmt=22

[rado]

I've already set playback quality at the highest, on YouTube, that doesn't help.

But changing the link as shown does, I can see.

Thanks! :)
Rado

[sfan]

You can also add &hd=1 to the end of the video's URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY&hd=1

The hd has to be lower-cased letters.

[rado]

You can also add &hd=1 to the end of the video's URL

OK, thanks! :)

[Fety]

use http://keepvid.com/