GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 614845
Make use of new video formats
Last modified: 2010-07-25 15:25:16 UTC
YouTube now makes videos available in a smorgasbord of formats[1], which we should make use of in Totem. Hopefully, this will allow us to get rid of the icky t-param stuff, too. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#Quality_and_codecs
After some playing around, it looks like it's not possible yet. :-(
Here's a patch for the old Python version of the plugin, which someone kindly failed to upstream at all, to enable format 22 (HD videos): http://gist.github.com/100963.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 619207 ***