Questions tagged [youtube]
YouTube is an online video site for viewing and sharing videos. Users can upload videos for personal and public use, as well as browse and view other's videos.
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Fireofx 57.0a1 64-bit - YouTube HTML5 Video Player
Youtube HTML5 is not working anymore after I upgraded to Firefox Nightly 57.0a1. Anyone got it to work?
On the same machine (Ubuntu 16.04) I have Chromium browser, where all the Youtube HTML5 options ...
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Laggy youtube videos
I have problem with youtube videos. I am using lubuntu 22.04. My specs of laptop are
CPU: amd e350 dual core 1.60 GHZ
Graphics: Ati radeon hd 6310
RAM: 6gb
Everyting other works fluently, surfing on ...
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No longer able to download YouTube using youtube-dl. How do I fix this problem?
When I run youtube-dl, I get the message below (it's very long). What is the problem and how do I fix this? It tells me to update youtube-dl but I am running it in terminal using the youtube-dl ...
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How do I enable youtube-dl to bypass the age restriction on YouTube?
I tried downloading a particular YouTube video using youtube-dl (in terminal) and got the following display:
[youtube] 8_Ik8elX96w: Downloading webpage
[youtube] 8_Ik8elX96w: Downloading embed webpage
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How to download all videos of 1 account on Instagram
In the past I used to use youtube-dl to download all videos of an instagram channel but today I use that channel again and it doesn't work.
youtube-dl -i -f mp4 -o %(uploader_id)s-%(id)s.mp4 -a 1.txt
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YouTube videos are not working in Ubuntu 18.04
I recently installed Ubuntu 18.04 and it is working fine until I opened YouTube. I used both Chrome and Firefox but my YouTube is not working at all.
Could anyone help me with their suggestions?
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Create an executable that is an alias for another command
I've downloaded Open Video Downloader which is a gui to youtube-dl (which is kinda dead)
I've replaced it with yt-dlp (youtube-dl fork which is working)
My problem is that yt-dlp needs python 3.7+ to ...
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youtube freezing videos in fresh 22.04 installation
I recently installed ubuntu 22.04 fresh installations on intel NUC 's intel-i5 D5420WYK with no sound, no video on youtube (freezing). Tried ubuntu extras and login sesion as xorg config :(
Tried in ...
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How to install Freetube in Ubuntu 22.04 armhf?
I am trying to install Freetube in Ubuntu 22.04 armhf (Raspberry Pi image) running in a Surface RT.
Freetube only provides .deb files for amd64 and arm64 architectures.
Flatpak stopped supporting ...
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ytdownloader (AKA Youtube Downloader) requires root password! [closed]
I just installed Youtube Downloader on my laptop (Xubuntu 22.04). When I try to use it (from either the app menu or command line) the main window is displayed but I get a pop up message asking to ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 Sound in YouTube intermittently stuttering
No matter what advice I follow - fiddling with /etc/pulse/daemon.cnf or /etc/pulse/default.pa or /usr/lib/alsa/asound.state - it makes no difference: the sound from YouTube keeps hesitating and ...
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Youtube-dl / yt-dlp stuck on "Downloading webpage"
I have problems downloading any video using youtube-dl on Ubuntu 20.04.
Whenever I try to download a video, the progress is stuck at Downloading webpage. Then I wait and nothing happens...
youtube-dl -...
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How can I add right-click option (context menu) on Brave, Chrome, Opera, Firefox browsers to play YouTube videos in MPV?
I use Chrome based-browsers (Brave, Opera) and Firefox. My OS is Ubuntu 22.04. I use this terminal command to play YouTube videos in MPV player:
mpv --ytdl-format="bestvideo[height<=720]+...
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changing youtube 720p 480p 1080p settings in vlc
I can watch youtube videos using vlc and the lua file
VLC - YouTube videos won't play anymore
You can run the latest Lua script for extracting YouTube streams by downloading the appropriate file ...
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All videos stutter
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04, 64 bit, Desktop.
When I watch a video, it stutters very noticeable. This happens with every video on every plattform (youtube, disney+, amazon video etc.) also with DVD's or if ...
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youtube-dl keep both auto-generated subtitles and prewritten ones
When I download a video with youtube-dl and the --all-subs, --write-sub, --write-auto-sub options, I get a mixture of prewritten subtitles and autogenerated ones.
For example, this video: https://www....
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How to download a youtube playlist with numbered prefix via youtube-dl?
I have a Youtube playlist, I want to download it but I want youtube-dl to name the files like 1-{name}, 2-{name}, ... n-{name} in order to be able to watch them in the same sequence as original ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS complete system freeze when watching YouTube videos
After about a minute of watching any youtube video on either Chrome or Firefox the computer becomes completely unresponsive, screen is stuck, audio is looping the last second, the computer does not ...
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HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests - youtube-dl stopped working
tldr: up-to-date youtube-dl behaves oddly on 1 out of 4 devices, ignoring timeout between requests
I've been using youtube-dl to download videos for a while now. From time to time when something is ...
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Detecting Dark Mode on web apps
Is there a way to make web apps like YouTube detect system dark mode automatically on Ubuntu 20.04?
Edit: Some web apps can fallow system theme on windows. If you have dark mode enabled then these ...
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(Only) YouTube Videos automatically fast forward
I recently updated my Ubuntu from 11.10 to 12.04 lts and there seems to be a problem while I'm playing YouTube videos they, for no reason, start to fastforward (audio and video). This does not happen ...
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YouTube Videos Stopped Streaming
I have been dealing with this problem for a couple of days but couldn't find a solution. I've posted on a forum before but nobody answered. Any help?
A couple of days ago a problem started to occur. ...
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ubuntu 22.04 after upgrade Youtube is not working
youtube is not working
I have checked github.com also. it is not working. Why it is so? However, when I change DNS to cloudware it is working. Why it is not working by default?
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YouTube not playing
I am using Ubuntu 13.10. My Youtube isn't playing since three days. I upgraded the system. Re-installed Ubuntu restricted extras package. Still not working.
It's not working with any browser... I ...
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Performance issues on new instalation (Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS)
I recently formatted my laptop with Ubuntu 20.04 because I had an older installation of it that was running slow.
Every so often I get some kind of lag using the system. I might be just navigating ...
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Can I download videos from a YouTube search query using youtube-dl?
I want to download videos from a YouTube search query using youtube-dl. Suppose I want videos from the search query https://www.youtube.com/results?q=how+to+create+android+app+in+android+studio.
How ...
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YouTube Music Snap app message?
every time I will open YouTube music snap app, this message will appear.
"Allow settings change? Allow snap "youtube-music-desktop-app" to
change "default-url-scheme-handler" ...
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Cannot install YouTube because "Could not get lock" / Unable to lock the administration directory"
abhimanyu@ABHIMANYU:~$ sudo apt-get install -y ubuntu-restricted-extras
[sudo] password for abhimanyu:
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E:E: ...
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Lag in sound via Bluetooth headset and problem in high fidality playback (A2DP sink)
Earlier I was using Ubuntu 14.04 and everything is fine but when I shifted to Ubuntu 16.04 , I am facing minor issue.
First Lag in sound via Bluetooth headset. lag is about 3..4 second
Sometimes ...
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uninstall youtube-viewer (ppa)
i installed youtube-viewer as per the documentation: https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
now i don't want it, but:
removing it as suggested here ...
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How to download the best video along with the best compatible audio with youtube-dl?
I want to use a format selector that is something like -f bestvideo+best audio whose extension is compatible with the video extension so that they don't need to be muxed into an mkv (WARNING: ...
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How to download an MP3 track from a YouTube video
There are several Q&A threads that explain how to download youtube videos using the terminal.
However, I would also like to learn how to extract the video's soundtracks as MP3 files--also using ...
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youtube-dl unable to download audio how to resolve that issue?
./youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVqBLRhC9UzGX1BRbF53zsJE8Jw_eiLRK
It produce following output with warning
[youtube:playlist] PLVqBLRhC9UzGX1BRbF53zsJE8Jw_eiLRK: Downloading ...
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How to download playlist from Youtube?
I need to download a Youtube playlist as mp3 audio. What is the most convenient way to do this on Ubuntu?
I tried:
youtube-dl --ignore-errors --format bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --...
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Chromium crashes when opening multiple YouTube tabs?
I'm using Chromium Browser (93.0.4577.82 -- Flatpak) on Ubuntu 20.04, and recently I've noticed that the browser constantly crashes under this specific scenario:
Open Chromium and open a new ...
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YouTube videos on Chrome are slow to start
I am using Ubuntu 20.04.
I just started to have a strange problem, every time I play a youtube video it has like 10 seconds of the loading screen (where the loading animation plays) and then it starts ...
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Youtube don't stop to play audios
I would like to ask the community for help with a problem that is bothering me.
In my firefox 93.0 (64 bit), ubuntu 20.04.3, youtube doesn't stop playing audios, and videos, even when I have it paused ...
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edit chmod for youtube-dl [duplicate]
I'm still learning my way around linux. I tried installing youtube-dl following these instructions https://itsfoss.com/download-youtube-linux/
When I got to sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl I ...
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How to get the highest quality audio with the smallest download size using youtube-dl?
I have a slow connection, and I just want to extract audio from YouTube with youtube-dl.
Thus, my goal is to download and the extract the best quality audio, while downloading the smallest video ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 Mozilla won't play youtube video if I open Blender first
I am very new at ubuntu, I just installed it,
when I open blender program first, then opening youtube, the video won't play, but if I close blender the video will play, then there is no issue if I ...
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How do I get rid of youtube-dl?
It looks like youtube-dl is permanently stuck on my system. Months back I installed it (I don't know how). But now I'm desperately trying to uninstall it. All the uninstall commands say that it's not ...
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Trying to block YouTube
I've tried two different commands in IPTables to block YouTube. They briefly work, but then, hours later, or the next day, I test it again, only to find that it comes through when I DON'T want it to. ...
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Midori: no video but audio on YouTube
In addition to Firefox, I frequently use Midori as a browser. Whenever I want to watch a video on YouTube I can only get the audio. But there's no video at all. As far as I know Midori does support ...
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How do I add playlist index to an already downloaded youtube playlist done without the indexes originally?
I used to download youtube playlists using youtube-dl with the command
youtube-dl -f bestvideo[height<=?720]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/bestvideo[height<=?720]+bestaudio/best[height<=?720] -o '%(...
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youtube-dl is not downloading with specified format?
So I'm trying to execute the following command. It downloads fine but although I specify bestaudio and --audio-format wav it does not download audio. And I cannot seem to be able to open the output ...
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Ubuntu Crash after watching long youtube videos
I have experienced a confusing problem using a quite newly installed Ubuntu 20.04.2.0 LTS.
When using Ubuntu normally everything works fine. As soon as I have a long youtube video (<30 mins) in ...
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How to measure "millisecond" timing in videos like Youtube (incl. frame by frame advance video)?
I do some "kitchen science" at home. I would like to measure the timing of movements in YouTube videos. YouTube only has a counter of seconds.
My first thought is to use a screen recorder program and ...
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VLC - YouTube videos won't play anymore
I would like to play youtube videos on VLC.
I am newbie (one of mac os re, but can fallow instructions :)
when i enter address on network stream nothing happens it is on the playlist but nothing ...
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youtube-dl won't work on Linux Mint 18.3 64 bit but does on Fedora 34 [closed]
youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnvfNx2TGFs
[youtube] GnvfNx2TGFs: Downloading webpage
[youtube] GnvfNx2TGFs: Downloading video info webpage
WARNING: unable to download video info webpage: ...
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green and blue horizontal lines on google chrome youtube videos
I have these green and blue lines at the bottom of almost every youtube video that I play in google chrome. I had the similar problem in Manjaro so I don't think this problem is distro based. I am ...