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How to Disable control of Youtube with Keyboard Media Keys

Recently Chrome / Youtube implemented the possibility to control Youtube content by using Keyboard media buttons, and i was wondering if it was possible to Disable that ? as i can't control Spotify ...
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YouTube videos black, only audio in Firefox

When I play a YouTube video on my computer, it seems to play fine, but the whole video is black. This happens only when I play the video in Firefox. I'm using Windows 8.1 What I did so far: ...
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Processing YouTube video in ffmpeg

I'm using ffmpeg for taking screenshots from video. Is it possible to take screenshots from YouTube video without downloading video to hard drive?
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Chrome youtube doesn't play/Twitch plays with no sound

I have OS X Yosemite, Chrome version 40.0.2214.115 (64-bit) When I open youtube video it loads but I can't play the video. I didn't download any extensions before youtube stopped working correctly (...
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Why can't I paste into youtube comments on firefox

I don't know when this happened, but today I noticed that I cannot paste text into Youtube comments on Firefox 40.0.3. It still works just fine on Chrome. I tried to use an addon to copy plain text ...
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Save YouTube ad

I'm doing some research and would like to save some YouTube ads to a local video file. No, I'm not interested in the videos themselves but the ads that show before or during the video plays. None of ...
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Chrome: force youtube to play video in h.264 instead of WebM/VP9

I am using Chrome as my usual browser on OS X. Since the introduction of VP9, youtube videos are now mostly streamed in VP9, requiring a lot of CPU computing to decode and killing my battery. In ...
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Mac EL Capitan Firefox youtube video flickering when progress bar is shown

I am running OS X 10.11.6 and I have a strange problem with video. When I watch youtube video in FireFox (50.1.0, updated often), I see video flickering (fast blink) whenever the progress bar is shown....
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Make exact mp4 (H264) format for uploading to youtube

With ffmpeg I'm converting video from mp3 and picture to upload it to youtube. After upload, conversion fails. Reasons are unknown. I believe the problem is in format. By the way If I'm uploading file ...
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How to play a Vimeo video in VLC media player?

You are able to play Youtube videos in VLC media player by going to Media > Open Network Stream and pasting in the Youtube video URL in the "Please enter a network URL:" box and pressing Play. For ...
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turn off annotations on youtube permanently [closed]

I want to turn off annotations permanently on youtube. I have unchecked the "Show annotations on videos" box, but I still see annotations. Are there any firefox plugins like YouTube High Definition ...
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Red and blue are swapped on Youtube

Since Sunday (April 1st), red and blue are sometimes swapped when I watch videos on YouTube. Examples are "Peeling Apple Like A Boss" (blue arms and apple) or, to my dismay, the famous Red vs. Blue ...
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youtube-dl - download video from YouTube with subtitles - Tutorial

I downloaded Python and youtube-dl, on my desktop I saved the file yt-dl.py. My goal is to download video with subtitles. I opened cmd, wrote cd Desktop, pressed enter, after I dragged the file yt-dl....
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Why does my internet get disabled during an upload to YouTube?

If I start a file download before starting the video upload then the download will continue at full speed while the video uploads, but if I try to navigate to any webpage on any device on my network ...
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Create a image every XX seconds of the video [FFMPEG]

Screenshot: FilmStrip I tried ffmpeg -i video.mkv -vf fps=1 out%d.png But It is generating one by one images. I need all thumbnails into one image. as in screenshot above.
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Youtube breaks my internet connection

This is a really annoying problem I'm having with my connection. Every so often, it'll randomly "freeze", that is, the NIC seems to stop receiving packets. This results in things like If I'm trying ...
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Formatting for YouTube captions

Is it possible to add even simple formatting for YouTube captions? (e.g. bold, italics, underlined.) Briefly Googling, some suggest that adding html-style markup to your .srt or .vtt files will work, ...
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Video uploads to YouTube with no sound

I have a video camera which, when I try to upload the videos to Youtube taken with it, the sound is removed. I used to be able o upload sound but then something happened and ...now I can't. If ...
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How do I play new videos from my YouTube subscriptions as a playlist?

I am subscribed to many channels on YouTube and I would like to be able to press "play" and let all the videos play on my Windows laptop one after another as if I'm watching TV. This is such an ...
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UBlock Origin: Blocking specific advertisement on YouTube via custom filtering

There is a slightly annoying advertisement box outside of the video in the newest YouTube redesign: Here's a link to the example video I used in this case, but the box appears on many other monetized ...
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Stop Firefox YouTube from auto-loading videos (HTML5) [duplicate]

I am using Firefox version 36.0.4 which has HTML 5 video. How can I stop it from autoloading videos in YouTube. For example, when I got a YouTube page, videos will immediately start playing. Also, ...
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Get RSS feed from Youtube playlist in reverse order

I subscribe to a few Youtube channels and playlists via RSS. To get the RSS feed of a playlist, (e.g. Crash Course Philosophy), we get the playlists’ URL, and replace everything but the ID with a ...
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How to disable HTML5 video on YouTube with Firefox?

I'm running Firefox (12.0 beta), and whenever a video is available in HTML5, it will open in that. I have opted-out of the HTML5 preview (I saw a post suggesting to opt-in then opt-out again, which I ...
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What's the best way to encode video for upload to YouTube?

Video is less than 5 minutes long, standard 4:3 aspect ratio (@ 640x480), imported from a digital camera, edited in Mac OS X with iMovie '09 and has a stereo, musical soundtrack. What encoding method ...
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Prevent embedded YouTube videos from autoplaying?

When accessing certain websites that have YouTube videos embedded I have noticed that sometimes when the webpage loads the YouTube video will automatically play and taking a look at the source code it ...
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Live streaming with html5 - plus how does Youtube do it?

So I have a Wii U now and tested Youtube Live streaming... and it worked flawlessly. Wow, I thought, I have to find out what kind of codec, container format, protocol, etc is used, but I kinda failed ...
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Is it possible to download entire YouTube playlist using IDM?

I download youtube video using IDM. All I have to do is use Mozilla, install a some idm download plug in and there you go. You can see IDM "DOWNLOAD" label towards the top right corner, or you can ...
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Saving previously viewed YouTube videos

Is there a tool or Firefox addon which could save already viewed video from YouTube? I'm aware of services like KeepVid which downloads a video link. But I don't want to download again the video I ...
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FFMPEG webcam stream to Youtube drops frames

I need to do a live videostream on Youtube using a Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920. My OS is Fedora 20, and the command I am trying to use is: ffmpeg -f v4l2 -i /dev/video0 -flags +global_header -ac 1 -...
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Disable YouTube autoplay permanently (no cookies) in Firefox?

I am trying to disable the obnoxious AutoPlay anti-feature in YouTube running in Firefox. I do not sign into Firefox, nor do I allow YouTube to use cookies on my machine, so the Autoplay slider button ...
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YouTube is stuttering in chrome on a brand new computer

So I just hooked up a brand new rig with an Asus P9X79 WS board, an i7-4820k chip, 16GB of G.Skill TridentX RAM, Evga GTX 650(soon to be upgraded in the future), and I’ve got one 1TB HDD with 500GB ...
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YouTube videos get stopped after playing 58 seconds

I don't know why, but from few days I have been facing this problem. After playing for a certain length of time, mostly 58 seconds, videos are getting paused and they won't move further. I am using ...
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How do I make h.264 work on YouTube on Firefox on Windows 7 64 bit?

Various news articles state that Firefox supports h.264 on Windows since version 20. As of this writing the version is 24, yet Firefox still can't play most YouTube videos. I did the HTML5 opt-in and ...
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How do "youtube downloader" sites work? [duplicate]

Sites were you put in a youtube url, then it goes and gives you an mp4 or mp3 of the video. How does that work? Viewing the source of a youtube page gives me: <video class="video-stream html5-...
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YouTube is slow. Should I block XOXO-BLK-1?

I have a residential ISP, and streaming from YouTube is barely usable. I have seen reports online that blocking 173.194.55.0/24 (part of 173.194.0.0/16, AS15169, NetName: GOOGLE) and 206.111.0....
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youtube-dl : Downloading a youtube user's complete video collection

Previously, whenever I had to download a user's complete videos, I'd just use something like: youtube-dl -ciw ytuser:LinusTechTips But now this does not seem to work anymore. When I issue this ...
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Chrome uses 100% cpu on youtube after update

Chrome 40 is using 100% cpu when playing youtube videos full screen My CPU is core i5 @ 2ghz with intel 4400 gfx card. it should be able to play them and I dont remember having this issue b4 Chrome 40....
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How to get playlist name(title) with youtube-dl

I have an issue with youtube-dl in Linux, so I want to create a bash script letting me download a playlist and put all the videos in a separate folder having the name of that playlist here is my ...
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How can I access a music video (youtube) that Chrome has already downloaded?

I have a youtube video I am listening to, having waited for it to download from youtube. Now, if I close the Chrome browser tab it is in, I will have to wait for the download again. The file must ...
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Disable hardware acceleration for Flash player in Linux

The latest official version (and supposedly the last version for Linux) of Flash player has some interesting issues on Linux systems. The biggest issues which have summarily been confirmed on the ...
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How does one use yt-dlp to download *only* the comments to a YouTube video, without the actual video?

After searching for such a thing for a long time, I've just discovered that yt-dlp, which I already have installed and use daily to download YouTube (and other) videos, supports fetching the user ...
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Why youtube-dl is converting my downloaded video to a different format

I am downloading a video but youtube-dl is converting it to something else using ffmeg. This doesn't usually happens, what should I do ? Here is the log, Edit If I try to download same video on a ...
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Video progress bar will not go away in full screen

At the beginning of the summer I started to have a problem with YouTube where the progress bar would not disappear in full screen. I just refreshed the page and it would go away. Now, if I change any ...
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How block Youtube ads on Google Chrome?

Any adblocker for Chrome blocks the annoying Youtube popup ads?
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youtube-dl how to download multiple playlists in individual folders

With youtube-dl I can do # Download YouTube playlist videos in separate directory indexed by video order in a playlist $ youtube-dl -o '%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' https://...
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YouTube or Firefox started showing the Windows 10 media pop-up. How can you get rid of it?

As of Sep. 23-24, 2020, either Firefox or YouTube suddenly started spamming the Windows 10 media volume control pop-up, which takes up half the screen. Since I am on my work laptop, just to be on the ...
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How to stream Youtube audio from a Windows machine to a DLNA client?

I.e., just the audio. I have an ONKYO receiver that only supports audio streaming over DLNA, no video.
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How can I remove a website from the exceptions list for a plugin on Mozilla Firefox that is set to "ask to activate"?

I normally have Mozilla Firefox ask me before activating shockwave flash on account of a slight bit of instability I notice when I tried to use YouTube. I have it set to "allow and remember" on most ...
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What are the best encoding options in Adobe Premiere for uploading a video to YouTube?

Adobe Premiere suggests a list of presets when encoding a video. For me, the good candidates to encode for YouTube are: HDTV 1080p 24 High Quality HDTV 1080p 25 High Quality HDTV 1080p 29.97 High ...
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Is Flash typically slow on Linux?

Specifically, I'm running Mint 8 (Helena). I'm extremely new to Linux, and was searching for a solution that was user-friendly and GUI oriented. The box won't be used for much other than web browsing ...
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