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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route computer music directly to sound card with or without qjack

I would like to be able to transmit the music played from youtube or vlc or any other software .. directly to the sound card which in turn is connected to the speakers .. so that I can listen to music ...
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Getting CORS error when trying to play videos in YouTube

I am using Ubuntu 22.04. Whenever I try to play videos in YouTube, it just keeps loading. I am getting a CORS error too. I tried reinstalling Ubuntu, but it didn't solve anything.
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Youtube videos not working on Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS

Hey i installed ubuntu a few days ago and i have a problem, when i turn on my computer and open youtube, the videos play normally but after a few hours on the computer i can't see any more videos ...
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How to block a specific youtube video on ubuntu?

I can already block whole websites using /etc/hosts. Right now I want to block some specific Youtube videos for all users. The exact URL blocking is not working and the URL itself is dynamic. How can ...
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Audio and video no longer working after upgrade from 22.04 to 23.04

I have upgraded my Ubuntu 22.04 to 23.04 and neither audio nor video on YouTube is working. I used https://jumpcloud.com/blog/how-to-upgrade-ubuntu-22-04-to-ubuntu-23-04 for the upgrade. When I check ...
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Intel UHD620 lagging in playing 4k videos from YouTube

I have a Intel I3 8130U cpu with intel UHD 620 and videos in 4k from youtube are lagging(Ubuntu 22.04).I was looking in system monitor and all the cores where used at max.I was trying to watch with ...
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Laptop starts heating CPU while watching youtube video

I have an acer aspire 3 laptop, with an intel celeron n4000 @1.10 GHz, 8GB RAM and mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics 600 (GLK 2) with a X.Org foundation driver. I buyed a blank ssd a month ago and installed ...
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Internet works for everything except YouTube

When I try to start YouTube sometimes it shows 'Please connect to the internet' after loading the page. Every other site I have tried works perfectly. : To try to solve this, I have tried to change ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 - Web audio suddenly extremely low for some sites

Recently the audio from some websites on my Ubuntu 22.04 desktop is barely audible. This happens only on my sites but not others, but happens on both Chrome and Firefox. It even happens for different ...
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Youtube, Dailymotion video playback Firefox problem

product: GK208M [GeForce GT 730M] vendor: NVIDIA Corporation, Nvidia driver metapackage from nvidia-driver-470, Ubuntu 22.10, Kubuntu I've installed the codecs from "sudo apt install ubuntu-...
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Bad video and audio performance in all media players

I am having trouble playing any video files on my desktop computer running Pop!_OS. I have managed to get VLC to play audio at the correct time, but the video is delayed. YouTube videos start but ...
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XDM could not download the file as server sent an invalid response

I am using XDM (Xtreme Download Manager, a file downloader) for many years, specially for YT since it catch and download YT videos directly (without using another website to give DL of YT videos). ...
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unable to download videos in ubuntu using youtube-dl

Whenever I try to download videos using the youtube-dl, I get an error: usr/bin/env: ‘python’: No such file or directory
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Weird Youtube Rendering on Google Chrome

I am getting this weird rendering on YouTube videos in google chrome when running at 1080p (Image Here). The problem goes away if I switch to 720p and returns when I switch back to 1080p. This only ...
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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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Strange visual bug in youtube player

For some reason I don't understand, I've been having this problem for a long time only for youtube player. this problem only occurs on youtube player and only occurs on debian based operating systems (...
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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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Youtube stops playing and beeps

I just installed Ubuntu on my old laptop, and after a few minuters watching youtube, the browser stops playing and beeps, I can use my computer and everithing but the video is stoped and the computer ...
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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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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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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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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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Firefox playing Blurred Youtube videos on Ubuntu 20.10 (ARM64)-Raspberry PI 4(8Gb)

I've been using Ubuntu in my Raspberrys since 19.xx and now I'm running 20.10 (arm64). Since some days ago, I noticed that Firefox 88.x was playing blurred videos on youtube. Example It looks like a ...
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Firefox volume keeps resetting to 40-50% when playing Youtube, existing solutions don't help

I have recently begun having a very annoying issue with audio playback in Firefox 87 (Ubuntu 18.04 with Unity Desktop; application-based volumes are a thing there too), possibly due to a Firefox ...
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Update 18.04 latest update hosing YouTube & Keyboard Input

After lastest updating (17 April 2021), YouTube videos are starting and stopping - with no input from the user. Also my key board is freezing, and requires a reboot to start working again, i.e. ...
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Why Lollypop Music Player doesn't show any suggestions and don't connect with youtube-dl?

Sorry for my bad english. I was used to using the Lollypop Music Player in Ubuntu 20.04, and everything seemed to work fine. I also used the Suggestions feature frequently, to discover new music. ...
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installed tar video down loader in Ubuntu

Installed TAR and front end for youtube downloader ok on launching the program how do I add the videos?.In windows I have a down loader that is automatic in adding the video when played.Where do I go ...
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YouTube videos I downloaded using Video Downloader are missing the video, i.e. only have audio

I installed Video Downloader from the Ubuntu store recently. The videos I downloaded with this app only have audio and no video when played, using either VLC media player or Videos. Only the YouTube ...
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Small chokes of 4k videos on YouTube

Good night. I noticed that when I try to run a 2160p (4k) video on Ubuntu 20.04, the YouTube video starts to experience slight crashes. The same process does not occur in Windows 10. Furthermore, this ...
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Youtube videos keeps buffering

I download Ubuntu 20.04 on Oracle virtualbox 6.1.8 and YouTube videos keep buffering browser independent tried both Mozilla and chrome. Any idea how i can make it work?
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“Restricted Mode” disabled but on youtube “Some results have been removed because Restricted Mode is enabled by your network administrator.”

This problem: "Some results have been removed because Restricted Mode is enabled by your network administrator." and "This video is restricted. Try signing in with a G Suite account." I am using ...
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Unable to watch some videos on firefox ubuntu 19.1

I just downlaoded Ubuntu 19.10,it came with Firefox 72.0.1 pre-installed, I can't watch some videos on YouTube although when I opened youtube.com/html5 it redirects me to this, I checked some answers ...
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System Freezes seemingly randomly (Ubuntu 18.04)

I experienced some more or less random system freezes (or near freezes) while working. I have Firefox playing music in the background while working in Atom and everything is going well up until when ...
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Youtube is not open and chrome given error DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_BAD_CONFIG

4 days ago YouTube opened properly in Chrome and Firefox browsers. However, after 1 day, hitting YouTube URL on the browser, it does not open properly on the browser and gave me a ...
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FFMPEG: Two smaller IP cameras with background of another camera, stream to youtube

I want to do something like this: --------------- | 1 | | 2 | |----| |---| | Main Camera | --------------- Two smaller cameras in the corners ...
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Running Ubuntu 16.04 and my computer slows down drastically after using my browser for a while

This occurrence happens more frequently now than it did in the past. I mainly find that my computer slows down drastically when I watch YouTube, or, videos on Facebook. I would have to say that it ...
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YouTube video is stucked for few seconds if I have enabled the layers.acceleration.force-enabled in Firefox

If I have enabled layers.acceleration.force-enabled, the YouTube video usually get stucked for few seconds while the audio is playing fine, it never happend when I was in Manjaro, this problem is ...
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Ubuntu media playing become slow

Recently I did a presentation. So I used Mirror option to display my desktop on the projector screen using HDMI port. After the presentation(after removing HDMI) when I tried to watch a YouTube video ...
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Ubuntu 16.04, Only youtube does not work

I just started using Ubuntu 16.04 today, I was on Windows 7, and I decided to change for Linux. I noticed that when I launch Firefox, every websites work except Youtube, when I am on the website, the ...
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18.04 LTS - things look wrong

I continue to be an idiot. I have upgraded to 18.04 and it seems that sites such as youtube (in particular) are not functioning correctly. On both the Firefox and Chromium browser, when one watches ...
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How to fit YouTube player to available browser window?

Youtube video player has changed size overnight in Chrome and I can't seem to fit it to available screen anymore. Relevant info: Ubuntu 16.04 Chrome v68.0.3440.106 (Official Build) (64-bit) Screen: ...
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YouTube videos are glitchy, pixelize, etc

From a few months I've had a problem with videos on YouTube (it doesn’t matter from quality), sometimes in Facebook also. I don't know how to describe it, but it starts to pixelize like on the top of ...
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problem playing videos, from youtube any browser, from mpv (lubuntu 18.04)

OS: Lubuntu 18.04 updated to 2018-06-25 Hardware: exo cloudbok e15 (note: english is not my native languaje) Pasted at the end the result of lshw. Symptoms: youtube in firefox 60.0.2: keeps ...
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Ubuntu, Youtube doesn't work in Firefox 57

I have one computer with Linux Mint and Firefox 57. I have two computers with Ubuntu Mate and Firefox 57. In Mint I can watch YouTube videos in Firefox. In Ubuntu I can not watch YouTube videos in ...
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How to disable the arrow keys in Google Chrome, while watching Youtube videos, on Ubuntu

This question is very specific, so let me explain and bear with me: I want to disable a user from accidentally skipping content while watching YouTube movies on an instance of Google Chrome on Ubuntu....
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Lenovo Y520 display issues

I have installed ubuntu on my brand new Lenovo Y520, i am facing some major issues on display All fonts looks smaller mainly on firefox and chrome While playing youtube videos in high quality(720p), ...
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Connect To IP Camera > Make 2nd Network Connection To Home Network > Stream To YouTube With Ubuntu 16.04

I'm properly stuck. I own a Ordro HDV-Z20 video camera. It has a WiFi option. When I connect adhoc and issue the command ifconfig I get the following response: rpiggott@rpiggott-Aspire-5742Z:~$ ...
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Firefox + flash player + adblock plus on Youtube: video freezes

My OS: Ubuntu 16.04. Firefox + flash player + adblock plus on Youtube: why do videos freeze after about 1 minute? If I reload the page, the video suddenly runs fine. (I suspect Youtube's nasty ...
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Can connect to any website except youtube.com - Server not found

Good evening, I've recently installed Ubuntu 16.04. I setup a wireless connection and it works flawlessly on any website except youtube.com. Error message I've pinged it and it seems like there ...
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