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Downloading Youtube videos in a text file...?
Rather than piping it in, you could use functionality provided by youtube-dl - it has a parameter that allows you to point at a text file containing a list of URLs - one per line.
-a, --batch-file ...
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How can I take screenshots of YouTube videos in full screen?
Bookmarklet to Hide All YouTube Video Progress/Toolbars with one click
(makes it easy to get a clean full-screen HD screenshot)
To ADD the Bookmarklet:
highlight the the text in the next box
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How do I download ONLY the YouTube playlist, NOT the files therein?
Did u read the page wysiwig suggested in his comment? (thanks @wysiwig!)
List Youtube playlist with youtube-dl
Anyway, here I'll try to explain what you could do (extracted from the previous web ...
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Why does YouTube show 1080p as the highest resolution for my video when the uploaded video is 1920 x 1040?
The highest resolution it's offering for Chrome on my PC is 1080p.
Shouldn't there be higher resolution options like 1440 or 2160?
No. Bear in mind that the 1080p terminology refers to the vertical ...
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How can one reverse a remote desktop connection?
This vulnerability is described in the Microsoft article
A case study in industry collaboration: Poisoned RDP vulnerability disclosure and response.
This study was done in collboration with Check ...
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How can youtube-dl download videos that require user authentication and 2FA?
I was able to download private videos by using the --cookies route. I had to first format the cookies to Netscape format, which is an option in EditThisCookie. Remember you'll not only need the ...
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How can one reverse a remote desktop connection?
These type of scammers look for non-tech-savy people. Software like Teamviewer detects "likely" scammer activities and warns people about scams if you get connected, for example, to an IP ...
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How to download chapters of a youtube video as separate video files?
You can't do this directly. I have written a Python script which will download the whole file, process the description file and then split the downloaded file into it's component chapters.
Usage - if ...
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How do I force single (only) channel audio in youtube/flash videos to play in both (left/right) channels?
Windows 10:
Windows Settings > Ease of access > Audio, and on the right panel just toggle "Turn mono audio" to "ON".
Original answer now obsolete in updated Windows 10:
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How can I take screenshots of YouTube videos in full screen?
A very simple solution which is working on Firefox. This will take a full screenshot of the YouTube video at the current time.
No need for downloading anything or adding anything to your browser.
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Computer won't play any online video until I reboot
RESOLVED
I had the same issue.
Put the Win10 to sleep. After waking up UTube or online videos did not play. I could browse in the timeline in the Utube video and showed up the thumbprint of the xy ...
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Use Media Keys for Soundcloud, YouTube, etc.. in Firefox?
The Media Keys add-on does not work in Firefox version 57, because the
developers have decided to remake Firefox into a Chrome clone.
For November 2017, they have announced their intention to drop in ...
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Blocking YouTube Android app from router
Adding to the previous list, the best way I've found to block YouTube content from desktop/laptop computers, iOS, and Android apps is by blocking the following list of URLs on your router/firewall:
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How to Disable control of Youtube with Keyboard Media Keys
Load chrome://flags/#hardware-media-key-handling in the Chrome address bar; this should open the right flag when loaded.
Set the Hardware Media Key Handling flag to Disabled.
Restart Google Chrome.
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Is there any way to control Youtube through the media keys on the keyboard?
Chrome 73 does it out of box.
Some people may even want to disable it at chrome://flags/#hardware-media-key-handling (source).
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youtube-dl - download video from YouTube with subtitles - Tutorial
According to the Readme file for youtube-dl (the program you run as the file yt-dl.py), --write-srt is not an option, but --write-sub is. The Readme file with all options is available here: https://...
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youtube-dl: Download Opus audio or AAC audio?
You do not have to worry so much about the source audio being AAC because, even though YouTube recommends using it as well as the MP4 container, the MKV container and lossless codecs like PCM and FLAC ...
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How to download chapters of a youtube video as separate video files?
yt-dlp
There is no need for ad-hoc scripts. yt-dlp is a Fork of youtube-dl with additional features and fixes, like --split-chapters.
Usage:
yt-dlp --split-chapters [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]
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Make exact mp4 (H264) format for uploading to youtube
These options work for me, as in: the video doesn't undergo further processing/re-encoding by youtube after upload.
ffmpeg -i SOURCE -c:v libx264 -flags:v "+cgop" -g 15 -bf 1 -coder ac -profile:v ...
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Youtube URL autocorrecting to "youtube.com___" in search bar
If you don't wish to delete your entire browser history, you can pick the annoying item in the omnibox and remove it with shift+delete on Windows, or fn+shift+delete on MacOS.
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Why does my internet get disabled during an upload to YouTube?
Assuming full array of connection errors means partially loaded/infinitely loading web pages and/or packet loss:
In most countries DSLs are asymmetrical: your upload bandwidth is smaller (usually 10%)...
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How do I cast from YT Music to ChromeCast Audio?
As of now, you can't. Google does not support integration of YT Music and Chromecast Audio.
For now, you'll have to use the Chromecast App sound-transcoding. You can find those instructions here, ...
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How do I cast from YT Music to ChromeCast Audio?
With the release on September 1, 2016, after wayyyy too long this was fixed. You can now cast as you normally would to a Chromecast A/V device.
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youtube-dl 'youtube-dl' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file
You do not add specific programs to your path, you add the folder containing your programs.
You need to remove the youtube-dl.exe from the end of highlighted line.
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Save YouTube ad
You can get the Id of the Ad by
right click on the video and select "Stats for nerds"
then you will see the Id for that Ad
you can copy it and paste it in the url for Youtube and it will be ...
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How do I download ONLY the YouTube playlist, NOT the files therein?
@wysiwig's method does produce output on linux, but not what I sought, thus :
$ youtube-dl --flat-playlist --skip-download https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm9l7EEbJuhyDYNuItj3sG8h3xAZbjIxr
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Is there any way to control Youtube through the media keys on the keyboard?
I find BearedSpice to be the great solution. It works for Safari and Chrome (probably other web browsers) as well as media players like Spotify and iTunes.
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Volume decreases on Google Chrome when I switch tabs
I hope the OP had solution so far and went with the life happily. I had this problem in my win10 laptop. i found the exact solution and explanation here.
The solution given on that link from google ...
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Use Media Keys for Soundcloud, YouTube, etc.. in Firefox?
Linux (D-Bus) solution
Just leaving this here for the next person that will be in the situation I was half an hour ago. After searching around a bit I found this document linked from the Mozilla ...
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youtube-dl: Download Opus audio or AAC audio?
Not to commenting on the youtube-dl but trying to answer your Opus audio related questions.
As ffcvt suggested, "the Opus audio codec is becoming the best thing ever for compressing audio -- A 64K ...
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