Questions tagged [youtube]
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Audio-only youtube player
I would like to find an application external to the internet browser that would play only youtube sound.
Preferably a very light one, CLI or GUI.
user32012
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How to enable YouTube autoplay with youtube-dl & mpv?
Is there a way to play a video and make it follow YouTube autoplay videos?
Can this be done with youtube-dl and/or mpv?
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No video with HTML 5 player in YouTube under Iceweasel
Today I noticed that I get no video (the audio is there) when watching an YouTube video using the HTML 5 player (enabled on http://youtube.com/html5).
If I use the Flash player, all works correctly, but I'd rather avoid it.
What I have from…
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Stream Youtube with mpv starting at an arbitrary point later in the video
I prefer streaming Youtube videos via mpv,
mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
However, for long videos sometimes the audio breaks down in the middle, leaving error messages like
[ffmpeg] tls: Error in the pull function.
Restarting…
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Can I choose which of my dual screens a youtube video will maximize to?
Watching a youtube video, I click on "maximize to full screen" (the flash button). It maximizes to the wrong screen. How can I choose which screen will display the video?
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CentOS, how to watch YouTube videos with Mozilla Firefox?
I'm currently using a CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core) operating system on a Dell machine. I've been trying to watch YouTube videos with Mozilla Firefox ESR 45.1.1, but it never worked.
("It's necessary Adobe Flash Player to play this video.…
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Command-line way to download youtube video in multi-threaded
On a fast internet connection, downloading Youtube videos is too slow compared to downloading files from other websites. Currently I'm using get_flash_videos to download the Youtube videos.
How can I integrate get_flash_videos with multi-threaded…
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How to list all files less than 1080p
There are a number of Youtube channels that I archive using a daily cron script that runs youtube-dl. However, in checking over the videos to make sure my script is working, I noticed for one of the channels I archive, a couple of the most recent…
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CLI utility to search and view/download YouTube videos
Is there a utility that can search YouTube from the command line, and then either view or download the search results according to user input?
$ youtube-search madonna
1 Madonna - Hung Up (Official Music Video)
madonna ♩ 180M views 9 years…
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Awesome & youtube
I run Awesome WM on Ubuntu.
Recently when I try to watch youtube videos in full screen they have been playing in a small letter box - They have not 'full screened'.
In the other hand, Vimeo & Dailymotion videos work correctly.
NOTICE! This is NOT…
andy boot
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Upload to youtube using shell script
I've searched the youtube API but still not clear whether this is possible.
I have a shell script that uses FFMPEG to convert a video. After being converted I want to have the video automatically uploaded to a preauthorized youtube account.
Can any…
Bachalo
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Firefox: Running external programs on click
Is there a way to make firefox stream youtube videos in an external player (eg vlc) when you click on a youtube video? More generally, is it possible to run an external script upon clicking certain types of links, eg those that are of the form…
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ffmpeg and libmp3lame produces bad audio quality?
when I get a flash video from YouTube, why is the quality of the audio much worse than the origin video on YouTube? When I downloaded the flash movie, I convert it to avi like this:
ffmpeg -i ~/"$2.flv" -sameq -acodec libmp3lame -vol 200 -ar…
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How to use an handheld device with GNU/Linux and YouTube to protect from death threats?
Suppose you fear you could meet someone who will threaten you with death.
Assuming the bad guy won't destroy your handheld (for example an Ubuntu Touch device) on sight, a barely decent form of protection would be to have your phone continuously…
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What packages are needed for playing live streams of youtube?
I have been trying to play live streams on youtube, but it does not play any at all.
Everything it says its that the browser does not support it (html5).
So what packages are missing in order to being able to play it?
Kernel> 4.18.7 (64…
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