Safari And YouTube HD Videos

Question

Level 1

33 points

Safari And YouTube HD Videos

I have just discovered something very interesting. When I access HD YouTube videos using Safari, I am only given two options, 360p and 480p. I opened up Firefox 3.6 and Opera 10.10 (both the latest versions of the browsers) and I had the option of watching it in 720p also. Has anyone else noticed this with Safari and is there a setting that I can enable in Safari to watch HD YouTube videos in 720p? If not, thank goodness I have other browser options.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8), 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo/2 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

Posted on Jan 30, 2010 4:30 PM

Reply

Answer 1

Best reply

Carolyn Samit

Level 10

165,615 points

Jan 30, 2010 4:55 PM in response to David Bendau

HI David,

Might some info here.

http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-download-720p-high-definition-youtube-videos/

Carolyn 🙂

Reply

Answer 2

David Bendau Author

Level 1

33 points

Jan 30, 2010 6:58 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

Thanks for the link. I still wonder why only Safari allows me two options, 360p and 480p, while besides Opera and Firefox allowing 720p, every other browser I have (Camino, Flock, OmniWeb, and SeaMonkey) also allows me to watch HD videos in 720p.

Reply