Dunno if this goes here but I was watching a youtube vod and unfortunately because of my screens resolution I can see the newest comments without scrolling and 9 times out of 10 that comment is a spoiler so I went in search of way fix and found this cool script for greasemonkey

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/13333

It does all sorts of things but most importantly makes the video bigger. I always hated how small youtube videos were. You have to install greasemonkey which I think is only for firefox, then click "install this script" on that page. It's a black button at the top right.

VIB

Brazil3567 Posts

October 02 2008 23:57 GMT

I don't understand, isn't it better to simply download the video then watch on Gom or VLC with any setting you wish? What's the advantage of this script compared to any other download-youtube-video plugin?

IzzyCraft

United States4487 Posts

October 03 2008 00:03 GMT

greasemonkey inot only for firefox it's a big myth that ff tries to hold onto that they are the only customizable browser. I think either opera runs greasemonkey scripts unaltered just fine. IE7Pro a plug in for ie has it's own scripts but also you can learn how to modify key words in grease monkey scripts to make them work.

Youtube quality sucks even though they bumped the bandwidth you can watch off their flash codec at best is 700kbp/s i believe but that's not its h.264 condc it's kbp/s is 500ish kbp/s but it gets stereio. Basically if your trying to watch you illegally put on material *cough* anime it's always going to be crappy but most user videos work fine.

userscripts.org list a huge amount of greease monkey scripts.

http://www.ie7pro.com/ for ie a very useful ie addon esp if your using 7. ie8 beta 2 is very complete and doesn't need much from it but i still use it for spell checking and scripts.

opera you should need no help just need a current version i think past 8 works

http://8-p.info/greasekit/
for safari not sure if you need to alter them or not.

Not a big deal to alter script if your familiar in reading code esp if you already know javascipt

On October 03 2008 08:57 VIB wrote:
I don't understand, isn't it better to simply download the video then watch on Gom or VLC with any setting you wish? What's the advantage of this script compared to any other download-youtube-video plugin?

Not sure about that plug in. in general but i wrote a script to allow me to download the H.264 or &fmt=18 unless it's not offered then it looks for the &fmt=6 and allows the download of that. Scripts like that are useful for auto putting on highest quality by adding &fmt=18 to the end of the url for every /*youtube*/ video.

I believe that script has a download function should add a link.

floor exercise

Canada5847 Posts

October 03 2008 00:06 GMT

It makes the video larger on the youtube page. You can still download it and this script even lets you do that as well, but to me thats an annoying extra step. This way I can click youtube links and the video isnt tiny, and I also don't have to go fullscreen which is crappy with flash players since they aren't allowed to stay on top to prevent malicious sites taking advantage (I think thats why) so I can't use my 2nd monitor

IzzyCraft

United States4487 Posts

October 03 2008 00:42 GMT

Ah so its like the resize script i have. Except i have to go to the conner of the flash based item and drag it larger

illeszt

United States350 Posts

October 03 2008 01:22 GMT

On October 03 2008 09:03 IzzyCraft wrote:

Not sure about that plug in. in general but i wrote a script to allow me to download the H.264 or &fmt=18 unless it's not offered then it looks for the &fmt=6 and allows the download of that. Scripts like that are useful for auto putting on highest quality by adding &fmt=18 to the end of the url for every /*youtube*/ video.

I believe that script has a download function should add a link.

:o do you mind sharing the script? Just to clarify.. your script adds &fmt=18 to every youtube video that you watch? Or is it the ones that you download? This would be very very useful haha.

Also, for the Yousabletubefix script in the op, what's the diff between FLV High quality and MPEG-4? (quality-wise) Or are they the same quality just different format. Thanks!

illeszt

United States350 Posts

October 03 2008 01:26 GMT

dblpost

IzzyCraft

United States4487 Posts

October 03 2008 05:58 GMT

The high quality FLV is 700kbp/s for vid and mono

the MPEG-4 is 550kbp/s i believe and stereo

But in terms of actually vid quality the MPEG-4 is better the codec is better period the FLV is ancient H.263 so although the file is allowed to be bigger the quality isn't

illeszt? What browser do you use "my script" was just modified old one i'm sure there are ones you can dl that are current. I just don't like to dl scripts because i have to read what they do fully in code before i feel like using them.

Cause if you use ff just use the script in this thread is it a great script.

if you use ie download ie7pro and
&fmt=18
http://www.iescripts.org/view-scripts-288p1.htm

Youtube Video Download (there is one prob with this one it dl the flv bleh. just change
http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/get_video?$1$2
to
http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/get_video?$1$2&fmt=18
simple fix
http://www.iescripts.org/view-scripts-3p1.htm

zatic

Zurich15345 Posts

October 03 2008 09:29 GMT

Here is my version that makes the video larger:

CTRL+

I made a script that always loads the H264 version a couple of months ago:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=67479

It does not work anymore I think but you can search userscripts.org there are tons of scripts that do that.