Neat little YouTube hack

Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share (MPSIMS)
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Thought you folks might be interested in this: It’s a way to enlarge a YouTube video to the width of your browser-window. (YouTube’s player has the “full-screen” button, but that’s often so big that it pixellates out.)

You take a YouTube URL, e.g.:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[VIDEO CODE]
And change it to:

http://www.youtube.com/v/[VIDEO CODE]
For example, this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6pOXjQLh7Y
becomes this:

http://www.youtube.com/v/I6pOXjQLh7Y
Essentially, you’re only loading the little Flash movie (or whatever it is), which automatically adjusts to the size of your browser. Cool, huh?

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What"s the dance they are doing called?

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Really fucking stupid?

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Dunno man, been to the clubs lately? Seen some pretty stupid shit lately.

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That is an awesome little hack. I thought I’d try cook up some javascript to do it and soon realised my javascript-fu is weak, so I looked it up and sure enough someone has had the same thought.


javascript:var codeStart=window.location.href.search("watch?");window.location="http://youtube.com/v/"+window.location.href.substring(codeStart+8,codeStart+19);

This works great in firefox at least. Just make a new bookmark, and paste that code as the location, and hey presto. Any youtube video you’re watching you just click that bookmark and it’ll redirect you to the fullscreen version.

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Brilliant. Thanks for the tip, jackalope and Suda.