Question

Is there a way to set default Youtube video quality when displaying video with Fancybox? I tried supplying &hd=1 query-string parameter in video url, as suggested by Youtube, but looks like this gets ignored when Fancybox embeds video… Sometimes it embeds 260p, sometimes 320p, sometimes 480p and I am out of idea how to alter this parameter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRT0OhHnOzo&autoplay=1&hd=1

If the URL is entered directly into browser then yotube displays HD version when supplying &hd=1 parameter.

Answer 1

Ok I found the solution with the help of this question.

The code I used and worked with Fancybox 2 is:

$('.fancybox-media').fancybox({
    openEffect  : 'none',
    closeEffect : 'none',
    width : 1000,
    height : 563,
    helpers : {
        media: true
    },
    youtube : {
        autoplay: 1,
        hd: 1,
        vq: 'hd720'
    }
});

The key is the youtube: part… You can also supply vq: '1080' this will then force 1080p video quality.