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This year, YouTube has added an eXtra Large video player (850×500) for playing videos that are available in HD quality. 

Below is example of video embedded on an external website with the current Standard resolution of 425×344:

Standard (425 x344):

Share URL for video in the example above is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VmGvjQMkH4, which will take you to the page shown in the image below that has a Large (640×360) video player but plays the video by default in normal quality (and not HD):

Large (640×360):

If your video is available in HD quality, you will see a HD button in the video player as shown below:

Clicking on the HD button will take you to a video detail page that has the eXtra Large format player (850×500) as shown in the image below:

eXtra Large (850×500):

Now, if you want to share your HD video in L or XL format as a direct URL, simply do one of the following:

• Append the “key=value” pair of “fmt=18” to the share URL.  So in our example, we get http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VmGvjQMkH4&fmt=18 to access the video on YouTube in a 640×360 (Large) player with HD turned on
  
• Append the “key=value” pair of “fmt=22” to the share URL. So in our example, we get http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VmGvjQMkH4&fmt=22 to access the video on YouTube in a 850×500 (eXtraLarge) player with HD turned on
  

Per my understanding, turning HD on as the default play mode is not yet available for external website embeds, as you can evidence in this post.

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