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How-To: Embed high-resolution YouTube videos on your site

We had a YouTube video of our product embedded on our website, however it was pretty low-resolution. I wanted to make it display in higher quality, however still making use of YouTube’s servers.
After a little sniffing around, I discovered that you simply add a little bit extra to the embed parameters and it embeds [...]

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How-To: Download Flash Video from Webpage to Your Harddrive

I often want to capture a flash video and store it on my harddrive for later access.  This can be rather fiddly to get working, so I’ve enlisted the help of a handy Firefox plugin called Download Helper.  This great little plugin finds all the flash movies on a webpage and provides a right-click menu [...]

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How-to Fix: An invalid public movie atom was found in the movie.

Recently I’ve had a problem with Quicktime throwing up the following error when trying to play a video:
“An invalid public movie atom was found in the movie.”
I’ve searched everywhere for a solution, and couldn’t find one in forums or tech hint sites.  However I think i’ve just solved it - for me atleast.  I just [...]

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