There are some problems with video on the web today. The numerous video formats make things difficult for both content creators and viewers. Different video formats require different plugins, and therefore content creators are forced to choose a format and hope people will be able to play it.
For now, Adobe Flash is the closest web video comes to having one single unified standard, but unfortunately it has its own set of problems. More… »
720p video from YouTube. Yes, YouTube. Click to enlarge.
Update: My bookmarklet has been broken by Google, but the script it was based on has been fixed and has added support for 720p HD downloading. Use that instead.
In addition to expanding their player to 960px wide for all videos, YouTube received a more quiet upgrade today. In addition to normal quality and high quality, they have now added 720p HD video. Few HD YouTube videos exist at the moment, but for those that do you can simply append &fmt=22 to the end of the URL. Interestingly, I seem to be the first to have figured out how to actually download (rather than stream) these new 720p HD videos directly from YouTube. More… »