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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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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how to undo installlin youtub-dl and python3-pip
i have question i install pyhon3 pip and then I install youtube-dl
sudo install apt python3-pip
sudo pip3 install youtube-dl
how i can uninstall youtube-dl and undo installing pyhon3 as pip i get ...
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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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Youtube videos freezes regularly
I'm on Kubuntu 22.10 running an NVIDIA GPU with a proprietary driver version 525.78.01 (same problem occured on 525.60.11 too). Starting from approximately a week ago I experience videos in YouTube ...
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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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Website thumbnail/image/icons not loading properly
On youtube, the video thumbnails are greyed but the hover previews works. I can click to play a video but the thumbnails would also be grey. On Reddit, the icons appear as square boxes with ...
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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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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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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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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 Freezes and makes a buzzing sound
Youtube videos play for about a minute then they freeze and make a loud sound.
This happens on all browsers I have tried
Below is my "inxi -Fxz"
I have tried disabling turbo boost as well as ...
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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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many of the times network gets disconnected
Currently using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.Since installation,Many of the times automatically the network gets disconnected.I mostly use youtube in my pc.But it's matter of pain is, in youtube it shows "No ...
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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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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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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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When using youtub-dl, what is the best practice to skip the already downlaoded file of mp3, mp4, .. of playlist and channal?
Found this Downloading youtube playlist with youtube-dl, skipping existing files
But it only cover mp3, also a bit new to Ubuntu/Linux, but able to follow.
it seems that we need to save our files name ...
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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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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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Get size of any download on youtube-dl?
I am running 22.04 LTS & would like to know how to get the size of any download on youtube-dl; How do I do that?
I have tried GitHub issue Determining file size without downloading but on channels ...
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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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yt-dlp Permission denied error
Because of slow speed on youtube-dl and after reading this discussion I am trying to use yt-dlp (current version : 2021.12.27).
But when I run yt-dlp https://youtu.be/qIX1BhvUMJ0 I am getting error. ...
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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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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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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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After a few minutes of watching Youtube, the computer beeping
After a few minutes of watching Youtube or Netflix, the computer stops playing sound and starts beeping. Crash only sound, the computer works all the time and the sound stops when the browser is ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Why is youtube-dl blocking me from downloading YouTube videos which are supposedly "innappropriate for some users"?
I recently attempted to download a YouTube video using youtube-dl and it printed the following error:
[youtube] 8_Ik8elX96w: Downloading webpage
[youtube] 8_Ik8elX96w: Downloading embed webpage
[...
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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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Ubuntu 20.04: Youtube playback not working
I'm facing this weird issue where youtube stops working after a while. It loads, but the video itself does not play. It waits for a while and then it says if video doesn't start playing, restart your ...
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