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How can I make three 10TB external hard drives act as one 30TB hard drive?
I have a huge collection of videos I am using for a book. I have over 30TB of data. When I am searching for and downloading new videos for my research, it is a huge benefit for me if I do not download ...
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Ffmpeg webm YouTube settings command
Is there a .webm still image command in ffmpeg that is best compatible with YouTube I’m currently using:
ffmpeg -loop 1 -framerate 2 -i input.png -i audio.m4a -c:v libx264 -preset medium -tune ...
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How long the URL of a YouTube video last before expiring?
On executing youtube-dl -g <youtube_link> we get the urls for the video and the audio, we can play those urls with vlc for example.
But for how long those urls are valid?, they're of the form:
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Ffmpeg encoded video results in corrupted YouTube video
I'm creating videos for YouTube that combine a still image with an MP3 file. For some reason, some of the videos get corrupted (in the example below after 15 seconds) and result into a gray screen. ...
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Stop Auto-Playing YouTube Videos When Restoring Google Chrome Session Tabs Only
I regularly have a large number of tabs open, and often several of these tabs are YouTube videos which have been paused. For the sake of an example, let's say I have 12 tabs with paused YouTube videos ...
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Red pixels only when im watching a certain videos on Youtube and goes away when i go fullscreen and when i watch the video for abit?
It's not a dead pixel and also my old monitor didnt do this. I had this monitor brand new 2 days ago it usually wont do these red pixels back then. Its also not the gpu im certain. I didnt experience ...
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The screen (MBP 14 M1) remains dim after viewing an HDR video
My screen remains dimmed after viewing an HDR video. How do I restore its full brightness?
This occurs on YouTube in Chrome. I've viewed some HDR videos using QuickTime, but a dimmed screen like I'm ...
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How to select maximum resolution and specify a format/codec in yt-dlp?
I use yt-dlp frequently and like it. But there is a problem I can't find documented anywhere.
yt-dlp -v -f "bv*[height<=720]+ba*[ext=m4a]" -N 4 "https://www.youtube.com/xxx"
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Youtube viewport bigger than real display size
When checking "Stats for nerds" on Youtube:
When in fullscreen it shows the viewport as 2400x1350 while my monitor is 1920x1080. How can the viewport be bigger than the monitor resolution?
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Create video from one picture and one audio file
I'm trying to create a video from one picture and one audio file. The video should be as long as the audio file, displaying the same picture the whole duration.
This command does not work correctly. ...
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No embedded videos in windows 11
I have a windows 11 laptop that isn't able to play embedded videos, specifically youtube videos in powerpoint.
I did some research and it is this problem: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/...
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Choppy YouTube in Windows 11 in Hyper-V on Windows 11
I'm connecting to a Windows 11 Pro VM using Hyper-V Manager on Windows 11 Pro. It seems to use RDP, but my YouTube playback is pretty bad compared to play on the host Windows 11.
The host has i7 ...
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Trying to Restream youtube live using ffmpeg - Not working
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>YouTube Live Stream Restream</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>YouTube Live Stream Restream</h1>
<form ...
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How to properly reencode videos for YouTube shorts with FFMPEG
I have tried many encoding and everytime YouTube app is saying unable to preview video when I try to upload my video as YouTube shorts
The app is able to see tiktok generated output file, however I ...
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ffmpeg 3D conversion - EAC stereo (Youtube) to Equirectangular stereo?
I've had success with converting monoscopic equiangular cube maps (EAC) videos, but I can't get the filters to work for stereoscopic. There's an example in the ffmpeg manual in the v360 filter ...
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Auto delete video after uploading on youtube
Is there any tools that will auto delete video from my hardrive after I uploaded it on youtube?
I uploading tens of videos regularly and it often hard to see what I can delete and what not.
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How to make youtube-dl (yt-dlp) generate subtitles properly and not duplicate the text?
I'm using yt-dlp to download some videos, and I've told it to embed the subtitles. This seems to work, except it's generating subtitles in the most horrible way by duplicating the text.
For example, ...
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How to download videos that have subtitles using youtube-dl "yt-dlp"?
I have the following command which tries to download videos that only have subtitles and ignore everything else. However, this command doesn't filter it out and downloads them anyway.
Any idea why?
yt-...
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ffmpeg stream new image every x seconds to youtube
I know how to stream a single image with sound to youtube via ffmpeg
ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i music.txt -loop 1 -i input.png -c:v libx264 -preset ultrafast -c:a copy -f flv rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube....
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Cast to device context menu is empty, but can cast from YouTube
I can cast from YouTube on my Wi-Fi connected laptop with no problem, but when I right-click an MP4 file and hover over the Cast to Device context menu item, I get a never-ending Searching for devices....
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Why on youtube a 1080p video looks better than 720p ? (My screen max resolution is 720p)
A resolution greater than 720p looks better on my 720p screen . I want a clear and basic answere to understand this.
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Is there a way to open all the youtube videos with VLC?
I am trying to restrict the YouTube videos as much as possible, including the search bar of the YouTube. However, there are many important videos for me on the Youtube. Therefore, I want to be able to ...
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Why is my YouTube video distorted on so many mobile devices?
A few hours after I uploaded an FFmpeg-encoded YouTube video, the few people that I had sent it to started reporting a strange issue: that the first 26 minutes of the audio sounded very distorted; ...
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Downloading a video as a best quality mp4 without audio?
I'm trying to download videos from Youtube as their best quality mp4, without the audio.
I know I can use youtube-dl -F to see all available formats, choose one and then run another command, but I ...
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Downloading videos from Youtube doesn't work via `curl`
I have opened and downloaded via curl some mp4 file from Youtube via F12 hotkey (i.e. from developer menu) and have saved it into J.mp4
but it cannot be replayed. Someone knows Why ?
It writes
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Why I can't insert Youtube video into Whatsapp chat?
Usually I copied and pasted Youtube link into Whatsapp chat and the link automatically converted to embedded video. But since November 27 2020 this does not work for me. So I can paste the link but it ...
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How i can download youtube videos by using cmd [duplicate]
in the first time of learning command line i've saw the quick performance that it presents and its deal with files, directories, and programs efficiently.
after all of that i think command line not ...
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Black screen when taking a screenshot of video
This is a weird one I am struggling to find answers for. I have a Windows 10 laptop with OneDrive which allows for automatic saving of any screenshots I take. Well, I went to take a screenshot of a ...
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Hindi text copied from YouTube does not save as Unicode characters in Microsoft word
I am making some documentation. The title text of a video from youtube I copy paste in Microsoft Word 2019.
Here is a link to the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEgbNz4sV20
the text is बीम में ...
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Convert videos to 1080p without re-encoding
I have a large amount of 1280x1024 videos and I want to archive them on YouTube. The issue is that YouTube doesn't offer any height between 1080 and 720 and so the video gets scaled down to 900x720, ...
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How to convert 4K .mkv to .mp4 for YouTube
I want to convert small clips of a 4K movie to .mp4 without losing quality so I can upload them to YouTube. Loading a whole movie into Premiere Pro and then cutting it at exact points is already a ...
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How to download chapters of a youtube video as separate video files?
A New YouTube Feature
Youtube recently enabled the option to add chapters in YouTube videos.
This is done by simply adding the chapter timestamps (start time) in the description of the video.
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How to get youtube like timed-bookmark effect on local mp4 files?
Youtube or most other video sharing site take a URL parameter that specifies the time in mm:ss format from start of video, from where playback should start if the link is clicked ? Preferably ...
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Youtube videos taking many page refreshes to load, and freezing when pausing
I am running a cunstom build desktop with the latest version of Windows 10 and recently, maybe a week ago, youtube started acting weird.
When I open up a video, the content of the page loads fine and ...
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Why would video streaming buffer on one monitor but not the other?
Monitor 1: 1920x1080, 120Hz, ASUS VG248
Monitor 2: 1600x900, 60Hz, Spectre E20
When I play a youtube video on my main monitor it will endlessly buffer. If I scroll down to the comments so that only ...
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How to force full-buffer videos on all platforms?
On all the various platforms - e.g. Youtube, Vimeo, Wistia, they have an algorithm to control how much to buffer in advance (e.g. 3% ahead of current playtime). Is there a way in Chrome (e.g. by ...
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Stuttering bluetooth audio only with YouTube
I own a pair of RP-HF-400B Panasonic bluetooth headphones.
They work very well when paired with my Android phone.
When I use it with Windows10 I have stuttering audio when YouTube is playing (it ...
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One monitor shows static noise when I play the video (John Denver - Country Roads) on YouTube
One of my monitors are showing static noise whenever I listen to John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads on YouTube. I understand that it must sound like some kind of joke. I can't even begin to ...
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Error splitting the input into NAL units, corrupt video?
I am trying to play this video I downloaded it via youtube-dl.
$ youtube-dl --verbose -c -f 22 SYahi3XFEa4
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: [u'-f', u'bestvideo[height<=720]+bestaudio/...
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How to change Youtube subtitles to srt subtitle file?
I can get the subtitles of this video on Youtube from the transcript box. It is in the following form:
00:02
Künstliche Intelligenz ist auf dem Vormarsch.
00:05
Manche sprechen von einer neuen ...
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Are most of screens and devices able to play videos at 60 HZ?
I'm talking about the devices that are able to play youtube videos. I created a youtube video that requires to work at 60Hz. When I shared the video on youtube, some people said that the video doesn't ...
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Can the IT department track my usage when i am watching You Tube thumbnail videos only?
I have been given a smartphone at my work place and i browse You Tube while i am on office network. IT department have registered the MAC address of the smartphone and keeps a track on employees using ...
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Can videos be programmed (especially on YouTube)?
I'm curious to know if I can program the videos that can be played on computer in general and on Youtube as a special case.
I had this crazy idea and I was able to create a very simple toss the coin ...
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Trying to stream to youtube: "default: No such process"
I'm trying to set up a YouTube stream using ffmpeg, but get this error "default: No such process".
I run this command:
ffmpeg -f x11grab -s 1824x984 -framerate 15 -i :0.0 -f pulse -ac 2 -i default -c:...
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How youtube-dl works?
How can I get direct youtube video URL? I tried to do this with Chrome Network monitor. I used this video as example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
With this way i got this URL(It will ...
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youtube-dl '--add-metadata' not writing all metadata on Windows 8.1
I have the latest version of youtube-dl installed as a environment variable for easy access in Command Prompt; I'd like to be able to simply type youtube-dl, then paste a link after it, all while ...
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How can I upload Zoom videos recorded locally to YouTube automatically? [closed]
I would like to upload videos recorded locally with Zoom to YouTube (unlisted) automatically. I would also then like the videos to be removed from my hard drive automatically once uploaded as well. I ...
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How can I download YouTube videos with their description? [closed]
I'd like to download some Youtube videos to keep them for later, but sometimes the video description is very important, so I want to download the description along with the video.
I can't do that ...
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Is there a away to stream pre-recorded videos to Twitch/YouTube without re-encoding them?
I have a low powered server with a few videos that I would like to live stream to Youtube or Twitch. the problem is most streaming software (like OBS) require to re-encode the video before streaming ...
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Random YouTube videos almost cause system halt with lag in Chromium on Debian 9.8 i686
Random YouTube videos almost cause system halt with lag in Chromium on Debian 9.8 i686. Drivers and web browser seem up to date.
Most YouTube videos, for example this video plays with no issues ...
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