Youtube managing the video quality

[Troja]

Hi all,

has anyone an idea to manage the quality of a youtube video?

Today we ware able to manage the youtube uploader or the youtube category.

More and more customers are asking if it is possible to manage the quality of a youtube video. There are tools available to manage this localy on the endpoint. But this would be great directly on MWG.

Cheers,

Thorsten

Nachricht geändert durch Troja on 28.01.13 13:48:35 MEZ

[fwmonitor]

Hi Thorsten,

youtube continually adds new codecs, allowed resolutions and relaxes size restrictions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#Quality_and_codecs . A video file which has been uploaded two years ago can have an another set of available resolutions and quality settings than a video which was uploaded recently using best practices http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1722171  (which means youtube skips reencoding).

This means you cannot set a quality parameter in the youtube url without parsing a web page to find a list of available qualities.

A small javascript injected in the youtube web site by a custom MWG7 rule can do a trick and override a youtube' logic to always choose a high available resolution / quality setting.

On the other side youtube try to restrict a possible url manipulation by introducing a url signing and expiration timestamp:

http://r7---sn-4g57kn7d.c.youtube.com/videoplayback?algorithm=throttle-factor&burst=40&cp=U0hUTldUUV9IT0NONF9PTlVEOjhfWGxTTEZaWUxa&cpn=Iii0KU77Xy65bqFg
&expire=1359793335&factor=1.25
&fexp=907050%2C926400%2C911407%2C923112%2C914002%2C916613%2C920704%2C912806%2C922403%2C922405%2C929901%2C913605%2C925710%2C929114%2C920201%2C913302%2C930101%2C919009%2C911116%2C926403%2C910221%2C901451%2C919114
&id=aec5fb6f2a03be86&ip=xx.xx.xx.xx&ipbits=8&itag=34&keepalive=yes&key=yt1&ms=au&mt=1359767232&mv=m&newshard=yes&range=13-1781759&ratebypass=yes
&signature=364E58E48C8E1324CE4CBA644ECF03D53F9339B2.63AA8094FCA32CEA0128D30E34822EFEF3174F88&source=youtube
&sparams=algorithm%2Cburst%2Ccp%2Cfactor%2Cid%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Csource%2Cupn%2Cexpire&sver=3
&upn=Knd38GHE_us

easy readable parsed url parameters:

algorithm=throttle-factor
burst=40
cp=U0hUTldUUV9IT0NONF9PTlVEOjhfWGxTTEZaWUxa
cpn=Iii0KU77Xy65bqFg
expire=1359793335
factor=1.25
fexp=907050,926400,911407,923112,914002,916613,920704,912806,922403,922405,929901,913605,925710,929114,920201,913302,930101,919009,911116,926403,910221,901451,919114
id=aec5fb6f2a03be86
ip=xx.xx.xx.xx
ipbits=8
itag=34
keepalive=yes
key=yt1
ms=au
mt=1359767232
mv=m
newshard=yes
range=13-1781759
ratebypass=yes
signature=364E58E48C8E1324CE4CBA644ECF03D53F9339B2.63AA8094FCA32CEA0128D30E34822EFEF3174F88
source=youtube
sparams=algorithm,burst,cp,factor,id,ip,ipbits,itag,source,upn,expire
sver=3
upn=Knd38GHE_us

there are some programms and scripts in Internet which can bypass these restrictions and d/l a video directly ...

[Troja]

Hey coooool,

will try it.

Cheers,

Thorsten

[junior_h]

just remove range parameter from the link, just like

http://r1---sn-puc-cqve.c.youtube.com/videoplayback?algorithm=throttle-factor&burst=40&cp=U0hVTFNQTl...&range=13-1781759&ratebypass=yes&signature=B903C058E7923479E8D29ECF131E101F3D80D7EC.0E6ECD32BD5C9F90B927A22B60EA8AF6980C8C7E&source=youtube&sparams=algorithm%2Cburst%2Ccp%2Cfactor%2Cid%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Csource%2Cupn%2Cexpire&sver=3&upn=6Fq3TF-nhPY

became

http://r1---sn-puc-cqve.c.youtube.com/videoplayback?algorithm=throttle-factor&burst=40&cp=U0hVTFNQTl...

and if you copy&paste on IDM its automaticaly set *.filetype

CMIIW