# video player that doesnt take quality away? **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [November 26, 2008, 12:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/video-player-that-doesnt-take-quality-away/58812 "2008-11-26T12:02:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![micah](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/micah/32/7257_2.png) [@micah](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/micah)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 12:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/video-player-that-doesnt-take-quality-away/58812/1 "2008-11-26T12:02:41Z")
whenever i make my videos, they end up in WMV format… i upload to youtube, then hotlink to my video page on my site. youtube always makes the quality less, and effs up the audio a bit, same with facebook. is there some HTML code or somethin where it opens a player and the inserts my WMV file that is hosted on my server? ---
**Author:** ![tpgsr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tpgsr/32/7374_2.png) [@tpgsr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/tpgsr)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 12:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/video-player-that-doesnt-take-quality-away/58812/2 "2008-11-26T12:03:09Z")
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**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 12:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/video-player-that-doesnt-take-quality-away/58812/3 "2008-11-26T12:03:46Z")
there is a high quality mode (HD?) in youtube, but don’t know what you have to do to set it up. Have you tried uploading a different format than WMV? ---
**Author:** ![micah](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/micah/32/7257_2.png) [@micah](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/micah)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 12:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/video-player-that-doesnt-take-quality-away/58812/4 "2008-11-26T12:05:17Z")
im just using windows movie maker, i think WMV is the only format it outputs to ill try vimeo ---
**Author:** ![theblue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/theblue/32/5074_2.png) [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 12:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/video-player-that-doesnt-take-quality-away/58812/5 "2008-11-26T12:05:31Z")
you want H264. small file size, high quality. the downside is that it is processor intensive. ---
**Author:** ![micah](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/micah/32/7257_2.png) [@micah](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/micah)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 12:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/video-player-that-doesnt-take-quality-away/58812/6 "2008-11-26T12:07:01Z")
> [@Dr.Stevil](#): > > there is a high quality mode (HD?) in youtube, but don’t know what you have to do to set it up. > > Have you tried uploading a different format than WMV? yea one of my vids actually had the HD option but i have no idea how it happened, i didnt change any options ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 12:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/video-player-that-doesnt-take-quality-away/58812/7 "2008-11-26T12:16:20Z")
micah, if you host them, you can try using something like divx webplayer as well. OUTSTANDING quality and you can give users the option to D/L if you want. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 12:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/video-player-that-doesnt-take-quality-away/58812/8 "2008-11-26T12:17:16Z")
> [@MicaH](#): > > yea one of my vids actually had the HD option but i have no idea how it happened, i didnt change any options [http://www.squidoo.com/youtubehd](http://www.squidoo.com/youtubehd) check this link out :tup: ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 8:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/video-player-that-doesnt-take-quality-away/58812/9 "2009-01-15T08:02:21Z")
> [@MicaH](#): > > yea one of my vids actually had the HD option but i have no idea how it happened, i didnt change any options it looks like you need to change the video size to 1280X720, or else youtube wont give the “HD” option… just a heads up ---
**Author:** ![micah](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/micah/32/7257_2.png) [@micah](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/micah)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 8:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/video-player-that-doesnt-take-quality-away/58812/10 "2009-01-15T08:06:23Z")
word thx i need to make some more vids ---
**Author:** ![BuickGN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/buickgn/32/7200_2.png) [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 8:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/video-player-that-doesnt-take-quality-away/58812/11 "2009-01-15T08:12:23Z")
H264 ---
**Author:** ![Haenszel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e68b1a/32.png) [@Haenszel](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Haenszel)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 8:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/video-player-that-doesnt-take-quality-away/58812/12 "2009-01-15T08:21:04Z")
.gif ---
**Author:** ![ZOMGVTEK](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/zomgvtek/32/5063_2.png) [@ZOMGVTEK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ZOMGVTEK)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 8:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/video-player-that-doesnt-take-quality-away/58812/13 "2009-01-15T08:27:48Z")
WMF FTL, and you need to upload them in somewhat higher quality than its going to be. Youtube limits to 1GB per upload now, so i would shoot for as large as you can make it. But that would require a good internet connection… ---
**Author:** ![dmoffitt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/dmoffitt/32/7455_2.png) [@dmoffitt](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dmoffitt)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 8:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/video-player-that-doesnt-take-quality-away/58812/14 "2009-01-15T08:45:16Z")
+1 for vimeo. Also, I suggest checking out H.264 / MPEG instead of WMV…