Questions tagged [youtube]
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yt-dlp: search and download videos with closed captions / subtitles
yt-dlp has the ability to search the web for videos from the command line and download the first result, but I'd like to limit the search to results with Closed Captioning (㏄) or subtitles, if ...
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Google Chrome crashes upon entering fullscreen on Windows 10
I'm using the most recent version on a fully-updated system. The crash is caused by both F11 and sometimes simply opening the video in fullscreen (e.g., YouTube).
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FFMPEG YouTube Settings
I successfully made it to work
ffmpeg -loop 1 -i image file -i audio file -shortest -c:v libx264 -preset slow -crf 18 -vf scale=out_color_matrix=bt709 -color_primaries bt709 -color_trc bt709 -...
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How can I get the source code of this strangely-behaving webpage?
Found some strange behavior, observed in both Firefox and Edge. The behavior does not change after closing all browser windows, restarting Firefox, and clearing all "YouTube" cookies.
In a ...
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Cannot interact with Youtube via keyboard
I am using Microsoft Edge to browse Youtube. Normally I can use F key to full screen the youtube tab. However, if I alt tab to another app, then alt tab back to Youtube, then I cannot interact with ...
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Can’t get Full screen from YouTube [closed]
I've got a new monitor Acer 29.5” 21:9
Everything is working fine except video streaming from YouTube.
Any video clip I try to play from YouTube has cut of picture from both sides.
In other words I ...
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Red pixels only when im watching a certain videos on Youtube and goes away when i go fullscreen and when i watch the video for abit?
It's not a dead pixel and also my old monitor didnt do this. I had this monitor brand new 2 days ago it usually wont do these red pixels back then. Its also not the gpu im certain. I didnt experience ...
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The screen (MBP 14 M1) remains dim after viewing an HDR video
My screen remains dimmed after viewing an HDR video. How do I restore its full brightness?
This occurs on YouTube in Chrome. I've viewed some HDR videos using QuickTime, but a dimmed screen like I'm ...
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Block Vertical Format Videos On YouTube, Whether Or Not They Are Tagged As #Shorts
Is there an existing extension or javascript code that can detect if the video has taller vertical dimensions than its width dimension, and block them from appearing if the ratio reveals a vertical ...
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How to get playlist title with yt-dlp?
I want to get the playlist title of a youtube playlist and store it in a variable in a bash script.
I have already tried these things:
-e flag but it lists only the video titles
-o flag and --get-...
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How to select maximum resolution and specify a format/codec in yt-dlp?
I use yt-dlp frequently and like it. But there is a problem I can't find documented anywhere.
yt-dlp -v -f "bv*[height<=720]+ba*[ext=m4a]" -N 4 "https://www.youtube.com/xxx"
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Youtube viewport bigger than real display size
When checking "Stats for nerds" on Youtube:
When in fullscreen it shows the viewport as 2400x1350 while my monitor is 1920x1080. How can the viewport be bigger than the monitor resolution?
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Create video from one picture and one audio file
I'm trying to create a video from one picture and one audio file. The video should be as long as the audio file, displaying the same picture the whole duration.
This command does not work correctly. ...
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Why can't I block YouTube with iptables?
Following this answer's advice on blocking sites with iptables, I have blocked many sites perfectly fine, but for some reason YouTube seems immune and is not blocked. It doesn't matter if I also block ...
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Colors from PS5 - WebM files are washed out after uploading on YouTube, can ffmpeg fix it?
Can I repair or change the color command via "ffmepg" without re-encoding the file?
There seems to be a communication problem between the created *.webm file from the PlayStation 5 and ...
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How to prevent the people in Zoom from hearing the sound (e.g. Youtube) on my PC without headphone?
When I attend a Zoom meeting, I still want to watch Youtube. But I do not want the Zoom people to know that I am watching Youtube, i.e. I do not want them to hear any sound from my PC. Is that ...
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No embedded videos in windows 11
I have a windows 11 laptop that isn't able to play embedded videos, specifically youtube videos in powerpoint.
I did some research and it is this problem: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/...
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How to disable Google Cast on Google Chrome?
I have this problem whenever playing a youtube video. There's always another background video/audio that's playing alongside my main video. Initially I didn't know where this sound come from because I ...
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How to define a YouTube History Search Engine in Google Chrome [closed]
I have defined a Search Engine in Google Chrome ("Version 112.0.5615.49 (Official Build) (64-bit)"):
But it does not work the way it should. Trying it out via:
yth automation
It goes to ...
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Get Processing abandoned The video could not be processed error after use curl in google colab
I uploaded my video with mp4 format to Google Colab disk storage. then replaced with Google Console access token and run following curl command in a cell:
!curl -X POST -i "https://www.googleapis....
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Choppy YouTube in Windows 11 in Hyper-V on Windows 11
I'm connecting to a Windows 11 Pro VM using Hyper-V Manager on Windows 11 Pro. It seems to use RDP, but my YouTube playback is pretty bad compared to play on the host Windows 11.
The host has i7 ...
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Is there a way to prevent Firefox browser from buffering YouTube videos while being idle? [duplicate]
Firefox is inconsistent as for managing suspended tabs and changing the quality of youtube videos on its own will. It often happens that the tabs with youtube pages opened in them seemingly unsuspend ...
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How can Edge pop up a YouTube tab that I've got open in Chrome?
I use a number of browsers. One reason is that it (tries) to keep their caches separate. Naïve, I know - but it (mostly) works. However, when it doesn't, I'm curious why.
So, I'm watching a YouTube ...
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What does this stat mean in YouTube Stats for Nerds? [closed]
Under the field Current/Optimal Res, the resolution is followed by an '@' symbol followed by a number. I have tried to find out what this number represents but could not find any source. I am guessing ...
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How to make yt-dlp JSON data not return null when a YouTube video is in "upcoming" mode?
The following command works for me (meaning it returns JSON data for the video):
yt-dlp.exe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C0ZtmBlL-s --skip-download --dump-single-json --no-check-certificate --...
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Need help fading overlay with image-ads in and out - infitely
Im trying overlay an image-ad every x-seconds, by fading the overlay in and out. It's a stream for our company in Southern Denmark.
Should be said im 3 days old in FFMPEG. And that its running on ...
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Block youtube via hosts file
I would like to block some distracting websites from my computer.
I figured the /etc/hosts file would be the right place to do so, because it will apply to all browsers and clients.
So this is what my ...
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Google Chrome fonts are messed up on some websites
I noticed recently the fonts used on some websites started to look worse. For example on vimeo https://vimeo.com/783454352:
Is it possible this is caused by installing a font locally on my computer? ...
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Line endings from Youtube text
There is a very mysterious event that I can not solve when copying and pasting some block of text.
Maybe, someone could explain what happens here.
Every time I copy a content area from a Youtube video ...
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How to combine image and audio losslessly for uploading to Youtube? [duplicate]
Regarding "duplicate", the question linked by you is talking about "video conversion" (one video format to another) while i'm asking about combining an image and audio into video.
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Trying to Restream youtube live using ffmpeg - Not working
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>YouTube Live Stream Restream</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>YouTube Live Stream Restream</h1>
<form ...
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How to get Playlist ID from Video link using youtube-dl?
I am trying to get playlist ID from youtube video URL that belongs to using youtube-dl.exe on windows.
input : youtube video link
output : playlist id that video belongs to
code am trying,
youtube-dl -...
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Discord/Youtube/Spotify 1mn latency (voice connexion SCTR issue) - Related to headset/firewall?
Since last Friday, my Windows 10 laptop has the following issues:
1mn latency to join a Discord channel (on Windows app)
1mn latency to start a Youtube video (on Chrome)
1mn latency to start a ...
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Is there real solution to prevent autoplay youtube videos in chrome? [duplicate]
Is there real solution to prevent autoplay youtube videos in chrome ? that switch for autoplay never work and I need all youtube videos dont start by default.
The only solution I found from the ...
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Thunderbird - Add YouTube Thumbnail to RSS feed
When I read the RSS of a youtube channel from Thunderbird, I only see the description of the video and nothing else. I was wondering if there was a way to add the thumbnail to the feed preview.
I know ...
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Automatically Copying Texts that are Inside a Video to a Microsoft Word document
I've seen Blackbox extension on chrome and I have a question about it. Have you guys seen those YouTube Vocabulary tutorials that is 4 hours long and contains over 2000 words with their meaning. Is ...
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How to properly reencode videos for YouTube shorts with FFMPEG
I have tried many encoding and everytime YouTube app is saying unable to preview video when I try to upload my video as YouTube shorts
The app is able to see tiktok generated output file, however I ...
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ffmpeg 3D conversion - EAC stereo (Youtube) to Equirectangular stereo?
I've had success with converting monoscopic equiangular cube maps (EAC) videos, but I can't get the filters to work for stereoscopic. There's an example in the ffmpeg manual in the v360 filter ...
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Connecting IP Camera with YouTube using FFMPEG
I´m trying to connect my ip camera with Youtube using ffmpeg to convert the stream from RTSP to RTMP.
rtsp_url="rtsp://xxxxxx"
rtmp_url="rtmp://xxxxxx"
ffmpeg -rtsp_transport tcp -...
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How to download all videos with yt-dlp from a youtube channel after the redesign?
Youtube has recently had a redesign of its UI and apparently it's APIs where video content are now divided by regular videos, live streamed videos, and shorts among others. And to download all videos ...
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Why is google and youtube slow for me and is there a way I can fix it?
I am wondering why specifically google and youtube are slow and if there is anything I can try to fix it
below I ping, google.com, youtube.com, superuser.com, and yahoo.com and you can see google.com ...
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Auto delete video after uploading on youtube
Is there any tools that will auto delete video from my hardrive after I uploaded it on youtube?
I uploading tens of videos regularly and it often hard to see what I can delete and what not.
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How do map a hotkey to close a playing tab or Youtube tab?
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I have three buttons (Streamdeck) that open YouTube links in Google Chrome for relaxing music.
I'm trying to find to away close old ones while opening up a new one.
Is there a way to close a ...
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Why is a video created by FFmpeg from static image is rejected by YouTube?
I am trying to input a image.jpg file and audio file.
I need output as video of 1080p quality.
Recently I tried the command given in ffmpeg doc Encode/YouTube and got the output.
ffmpeg -loop 1 -...
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The Volume/Sound of Youtube videos in my main Youtube account is lower than the other youtube accounts
I have 3 different youtube accounts but for some reason, the volume/sound of one of them is lower than the other two accounts.
The system sound is working well. So the main problem is the youtube ...
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Please help. Chrome 104 ruined everything; 105 changed nothing
Ever since Chrome updated itself to 104 on my Win7 laptop,
the UAC box always pops-up: "Do you want to allow Chrome
to make changes to this computer?"
If I click "Yes" and there's ...
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Is there a youtube for desktop that uses very less resources? Or how can I reduce the amount of resources used by youtube? [closed]
I was using windows, now I'm on ubuntu because although all tests were fine, I suspect something has failed. Whenever I play youtube video, even ubuntu randomly crashes. It's unpredictable. But the ...
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PC Not Sleeping Due to Youtube Video Continuously Playing All Night
Whenever I leave a Youtube video on, whether it is autoplaying or not, it can just be 1 long YouTube video of classical music for instance. Even though I have my PC set up to sleep after 1 hour, it ...
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How to make youtube-dl (yt-dlp) generate subtitles properly and not duplicate the text?
I'm using yt-dlp to download some videos, and I've told it to embed the subtitles. This seems to work, except it's generating subtitles in the most horrible way by duplicating the text.
For example, ...
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ffmpeg 360 Video - Convert EAC (Youtube) to Equirectangular
I have this top-bottom 360 Video, where the bottom is rotated 90 degrees clockwise, and I am looking for the ffmpeg command to produce a singular equirectangular output. I've been experimenting with ...
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