Archive for the ‘YouTube’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/12/28
Just a short list, as there are many more (see zzz and zzz), and the vast amount in the longer lists confuses me:
So the ones I use are below; are there any interesting ones missing?
These I hardly use in the below list, anyone using them often?
Most ad blockers block ads.youtube.com, so I never see it.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/03
A friend asked me what tools I use for downloading media, converting it to various formats (including audio extraction) and audio editing.
It is a surprisingly short list:
Most of it runs out of the box on Mac OS X/MacOS/OS X, as I’ve moved there form Windows for most of my day to day access to systems (there is a great set of Microsoft Remote Desktop in the app store: [Archive.is] Microsoft Remote Desktop 8.0 on the Mac App Store and [Archive.is] Microsoft Remote Desktop 10 on the Mac App Store; I like the first one better).
Audacity shortcuts
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Posted in Apple, Audacity, Audio, ffmpeg, iMac, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, Media, Power User, Remote Desktop Protocol/MSTSC/Terminal Services, SocialMedia, Windows, YouTube, youtube-dl | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/14
I’ve used these excellent posts to find out which youtube-dl version started to exhibit troublesome NPO downloads, then later find the actual failing commit:
Why the effort? I needed an as recent as possible youtube-dl working on as many sites as possible because of some work preparation.
The first link is very important because brew versions and alternatives have stopped working some 6 years ago, even though they turn up high on Google searches for brew install specific version. Hence the quote from the first link:
Installing software packages on Mac is very easy with homebrew. You typically get the latest version, however often in production you do not have the latest version of a software package. Another use case is when you upgrade to the latest and you find out there is bug which blocks you doing something. In this case you would like to downgrade to the previous version until the bug is fixed.In both cases you need to install a specific version of a software package with homebrew on your Mac, which tends to be not that trivial. There is a lot of discussion about this on stackoverflow but some of them are outdated based on brew versions which is not available anymore.
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Posted in Apple, Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, Event, git, Home brew / homebrew, Power User, SocialMedia, Software Development, Source Code Management, YouTube | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/20
Cool table via the University of Michigan’s Google Apps for Education [Archive.is/WayBack]:
Note: These shortcuts will only work when the video player is in focus. To move the focus try pressing the spacebar to pause and then play the video.
| Action |
Shortcut |
Toggle play/pause the video
|
k or Spacebar
|
Go back 5 seconds
|
Left arrow
|
Go back 10 seconds
|
j
|
Go forward 5 seconds
|
Right arrow
|
Go forward 10 seconds
|
l
|
Skip to a particular section of the video (e.g., 5 goes to the video midpoint)
|
Numbers 1-9 (not the keypad numbers)
|
Restart video
|
0 (not the keypad number)
|
| Go to Full Screen mode |
f
|
Exit Full Screen mode
|
Escape
|
Go to beginning of video
|
Home
|
Go to end of video
|
End
|
Increase volume 5%
|
Up arrow
|
Decrease volume 5%
|
Down arrow
|
Increase speed
|
Shift+> (may not work in all browsers)
|
Decrease speed
|
Shift+< (may not work in all browsers)
|
| Move forward 1 frame when video is paused |
. (period) |
| Move backward 1 frame when video is paused |
, (comma) |
| Mute/unmute video |
m |
| Turn captions on/off |
c |
| Cycle through options for caption background color |
b |
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/18
The Android Google YouTube application is showing more and more ads, mostly irrelevant, and has moved the “skip video” button outside of the “countdown timer” control.
Right now, there is no video – not even short videos lasting like 10 seconds – that goes without ads.
Time to research [WayBack] How to Block Ads on YouTube App for Android?.
The most promising solutions:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/11
Interesting [WayBack] 5 Simple Steps to Install Youtube Vanced Edition (No Root Needed) – Saint
You want to listen to your YouTube playlist in peace without any pesky ads and with a dark theme.YouTube Vanced is a pretty well known modded version of YouTube.
Via: [WayBack] Software-update: Pi-hole 4.0 – IT Pro – Downloads – Tweakers
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/05
Food for thought: [WayBack] Why Youtube’s algorithms push extreme content on every possible subject / Boing Boing.
the problems of Youtube’s recommender algorithms might be that they overdistil your preferences. Since they’re aiming for “engagement” — a word I am beginning to loathe with an unsettling level of emotion — the real problem with these algorithms is they’re constantly aiming to create an epic sense of drama and newness
More in depth at [WayBack] Opinion | YouTube, the Great Radicalizer – The New York Times
Via [WayBack] Kristian Köhntopp – Google+.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/28
Clever, as I didn’t know you could directly refer to the YouTube preview image using the “/0.jpg” trick:
Youtube videos
They can’t be added directly but you can add an image with a link to the video like this:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YOUTUBE_VIDEO_ID_HERE
" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/YOUTUBE_VIDEO_ID_HERE/0.jpg"
alt="IMAGE ALT TEXT HERE" width="240" height="180" border="10" /></a>
Or, in pure Markdown, but losing the image sizing and border:
[](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOUTUBE_VIDEO_ID_HERE)
Source: [WayBack] Markdown Cheatsheet · adam-p/markdown-here Wiki · GitHub
Gif using gifs.com
If you allow using resources outside of YouTube, then you can use gifs.com to render the video into a gif image and use that image in the above construct.
I tried that with a few seconds from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHOpw55TI-U which resulted in https://gifs.com/gif/liquid-prompt-Lg1kPp and the gif file https://j.gifs.com/Lg1kPp.gif
via: [WayBack] flash – How to embed a video into GitHub README.md? – Stack Overflow (thanks [WayBack] aloisdg for answering)
–jeroen
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