Determining video codec via YouTube data API?

Question

Is it possible to determine whether a particular youtube video is encoded with H.264 or FLV through the YouTube data API? If so, how?

I can start a file download and check how the video stream was encoded (programmatically, of course), but I'd like to use the YouTube data API to avoid all that overhead.

Answer 1

This isn't possible, and you shouldn't ever need to do this unless you are doing something questionable (with regards to YouTube's API TOS) ;)

If you give more details about what you are trying to do, perhaps there's another solution?