Just doing a quick post here regarding how to force high-quality YouTube videos with the WordPress encoding scheme.
As you probably already know, WordPress uses a simple “[ youtube={youtube URL} ]” method to post videos.
However, as some may have noted with the videos posted here and other places, this method defaults to the standard YouTube quality, which leaves quite a bit ot be desired.
In order to force HQ as the default setting, append “&fmt=18″ to the standard formulation and, if available, videos should default to high quality, which works a lot better when trying to show off graphics. 
UPDATE: If you upload the video in high enough quality, you can use “&fmt=22″ to get 720P-level resolution. For an example of how that looks, check here.
Another one is here, this one is probably better. The music most certainly is.
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