If it was a valid parameter, Google would document it somewhere, and vq isn't documented anywhere. From my perspective everyone saying it works just have false positives on their hands and on the occasion they tested it worked for some random reason not related to the vq parameter. So, by that, we can understand that I CANNOT force HD as YouTube will still do whatever it wants in case of low network speed/screen resolution. Fast and light-weight app with built-in search Download 1080p, 4K, and 8K MP4 videos at up to 60 fps Convert YouTube video to HD, UHD or FUHD video. The accepted answer states that 'it measures the network speed and the screen and player sizes'. What I can see from comments is that it MAY work sometimes, but some others it doesn't. More info here.Īpparently Youtube analyses the width and height of the user's window (or iframe) and automatically sets the quality based on this.Īs of 10 of April of 2018 it still doesn't work ( see my comment on the accepted answer for more details). Question: Oh, but how do you know this is not working anymore and there is no other alternative to make embeded videos open in a different quality?Īnswer: Just went to Google's official documentation regarding Youtube's player parameters and there is not a single parameter that allows you to change its quality.Īlso, hd=1 doesn't work either. And it's not just for you, in case you spent the last hour trying to find an answer for having your embeded videos open in HD.

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