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YouTube is a video sharing service owned by Google.

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If your question is about how to better use, view or configure something through the YouTube website or player, it belongs on Web Applications.

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How do all of these "Save video from YouTube" services work?

I mean, how do they work, generally? How do they receive the link to a video stream itself (not just the page containing a Flash player)? I searched on the web but couldn't find anything useful, all links point to such services, but none indicate…
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YouTube 360 Degree Video Filetype

Recently, I saw on YouTube that you can play videos with 360 degree panoramic views. It's on the #360Video channel (sample videos). What type of video files are these? Also, you don't need anything like the Oculus Rift to watch these sorts of…
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Download YouTube via command line

In Firefox I use "DownloadHelper", is there a Mac OS X || Ubuntu command line tool that downloads YouTube videos for offline viewing?
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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, e.g. italicized text but I tried it and it…
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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 essential feature that it is almost mindblowing that…
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How do "youtube downloader" sites work?

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:
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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 206.111.0.0/16 (CIDR: 206.111.0.0/16, NetName: …
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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 have viewed using services like Keepvid.
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Youtube saturates my network connection but video display quality is low

When I open several pages, without starting videos on those pages, Youtube makes background connections (shown in iftop as 74.125.105.x:80 and 173.194.5.x:80 primarily [Google]) that saturate my download link ~800 KiB/s. If I then try to view any of…
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How to save videos from You Tube?

Possible Duplicate: Youtube and Google video downloaders ? I would like to save some videos I see in You Tube so that I could see them myself later on and also save pictures taken from those videos. Is that possible? Does it exist any free…
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YouTube- video speed change

There is an option in YouTube player that you can change the speed of the video and I am wondering is there any way to add a new speed to that menu e.g. 1.1x speed?
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What are YouTube edit lists?

YouTube has the following site recommending the encoding settings: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171?hl=en I was wondering what they mean by "No Edit Lists" right at the start. I could not find any explanation online, except a short…
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YouTube buffering distorted and requiring too much CPU

When I play YouTube video at 720p, the buffering process takes too much resources from my notebook. The only way for me to watch the video while it is still buffering is to shutdown all programs running on my computer, including antivirus and win…
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Samsung UE50TU8500 - Youtube progress bar dark background, before was transparent

On the above Samsung Smart TV, on the Youtube app, when a video is playing and I press arrow up (to see the progress bar) or Pause (same result), the progress bar area, including icons "Channel", "CC" and "More" now have a dark, almost black…
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Why does YouTube show 1080p as the highest resolution for my video when the uploaded video is 1920 x 1040?

I uploaded a 1-minute 1920 x 1040 test video yesterday to YouTube and the highest resolution it's offering for Chrome on my PC is 1080p. Shouldn't there be higher resolution options like 1440 or 2160? How do I get YouTube to produce higher…
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