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Apparently, constantly adding &fmt=18 gets old pretty quick: here is a Youtube.lua that defaults to 360p resolution: save as Youtube.lua and replace the existing file in your C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\playlist folder. -- fmt is the format of the video: 18 is HQ (mp4) fmt = get_url_param(...

Nevermind. I figured it out. For those who are interested, just add &fmt=18 to the end of the url of an HD video and paste into VLC. So http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBgsQiQtEFU becomes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBgsQiQtEFU&fmt=18 Works very nicely. Also, &fmt=18, &fmt=34 and &...

When I play Youtube videos, I am sometimes forced to download the 1080p. My connection and cpu does not allow this. Is there a way to allow the user to choose 240 or 360 resolution? I think the Vimeo lua allows this. The closest I've come is: for itag,url in string.gmatch( fmt_url_map, "(%d+)|(...