How to Make My YouTube Videos Less Blurry
YouTube contains videos on just about every type of subject, but much to your chagrin, the video you are trying to watch may be blurry or pixelated. If the video in question was shot in poor quality, it's unlikely you can do much to improve it. However, adding a short code to the end of the video's URL can improve it slightly. This is possible because YouTube is encoding some of its videos at a higher resolution.
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Instructions
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Search on YouTube for a video you wish to view but appears blurry or pixelated.
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Click on the URL for the video, then type "&fmt=18" (minus the quotation marks) directly at the end of the URL.
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Press "Enter" to load the video with the new URL, and watch it.
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Tips & Warnings
If the video doesn't appear improved, it may not yet have received enhanced encoding from YouTube, or its original quality may be so poor that you can't improve it.
