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YouTube downloader for Windows
Try youtube-dlp - a fork of youtube-dl with additional features and fixes.
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Chrome extension to block YouTube videos, but allowing the audio to play?
You can use a userscript. Userscripts are small JavaScript scripts that run in your browser. They allow you to customize sites and edit their design or even add functionality, and they can be as easy ...
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Generate a YouTube playlist (or list of links) from a list of track names
You can use yt-dlp. For example:
yt-dlp "ytsearch:Rammstein Ohne Dich" --skip-download --print webpage_url
That looks for the best match and outputs the URL like this:
https://www.youtube....
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Software to record video lectures on Linux
VLC can also record from your webcam or other video device (capture card, etc), either command line or via GUI.
There is also gtkRecordMyDesktop but I'm not sure if it could keep up with live video ...
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Change pitch of Youtube videos
This one is really nifty, it can also slow down and loop Youtube vids:
Transpose - Pitch - Loop for videos
it's free
it's a browser extension for Chrome
it works on Windows
you can transpose (...
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Which software can download YouTube videos in MKV format at 360p?
Thanks @NicolasRaoul for suggesting Youtube-Dl to me. I went ahead and after many hit & trials and attempts to make something out of the documentation, I came up with this command as the solution ...
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Pause YouTube video without having to switch to its Firefox tab
Play/Pause is a minimalistic Firefox extension that just adds a Play/Pause button to YouTube video tabs.
License: MIT
Source code: https://github.com/DanielKamkha/PlayPauseFirefox
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YouTube downloader for Windows
JDownloader (Freeware)
JDownloader is a free, open-source download management tool with a huge community that makes downloading as easy and fast as it should be. Users can start, stop or pause ...
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Record audio from YouTube videos
There is a marvellous command line program/python library called youtube-dl which will let you download and convert to audio only from youtube & other sites.
Available for multiple platforms as ...
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App to play YouTube music videos in the background while multitasking
Since Firefox for Android is hit and miss with YouTube background play, I've been using:
NewPipe instead.
It's free and open source, can do background play (saves data by only downloading audio), ...
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App to play YouTube music videos in the background while multitasking
Firefox for Android can play YouTube videos in the background, even with the screen off. It even provides a notification with a play/pause button.
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Ubuntu YouTube music player with playlist search and download
Olivia is a opensource(github link) online/offline cloud based music player like iTunes, Spotify, Youtube Music etc, Olivia allows you to search any music online stream it, You can set player to save ...
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Browser extension that can play YouTube videos faster than x2
Not an extension, but a cheap workaround for Chrome/Firefox/Brave/Opera/Vivaldi/etc that will work with any HTML5 video or audio on any page (unless it's inside an iframe):
Right-click anywhere on ...
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YouTube-to-M4A Downloader/Converter
You can use 4K video downloader to download video or audio from youtube video's.
Works in Windows 7 64-bit, GUI based, Free, Extract audio from entire playlist or selected videos. Extracts audio to ...
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A music player program/operating system that plays YouTube videos for the Raspberry Pi
You could use Kodi on the Raspi. Their Wiki gives instructions for this, and mentions 4 Kodi-centric OS distributions for that:
LibreELEC
OpenELEC
OSMC
XBian
They all come with Kodi already ...
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Movable window that makes whatever under it inverted color
A long time ago I downloaded MagicAction For Youtube (extension plug-in, just for chrome I think), you can do a lot of things like buffer for video (to help to load it), and also some crazy thing like ...
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View all private video thumbnails sorted by Recording Date on one page?
You can use youtube-dl, which can be downloaded as a python library/utility or a standalone Windows executable, to:
You can avoid actually downloading the videos with the --skip-download option
get a ...
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Background playback YouTube app for iOS
I know it’s kinda weird to answer your own question, but looking up Tubex again brought me to Tubextreme ($2.99), which seems to be relatively full-featured (and also has a great UI).
It satisfies a ...
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Background playback YouTube app for iOS
One option is to purchase Youtube Premium.
The other option that works on iPhones is to use Firefox browser. Here's how to do it on iPhone.
First of all download Firefox browser for iOS. Then ...
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Download YouTube music as MP3
YouTube DL.
youtube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from
YouTube.com and a few more sites.
Download the executable, and place it in a folder. Then simply run youtube-dl -x (from ...
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Chrome extension to control online music?
I made my own extension to answer this problem.
It allows you to use your keyboard media hotkeys to start/pause next/previous tracks from Youtube, Youtube Music, Spotify, Tidal and Deezer
Check it ...
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Alternative to youtube-dl - How to download videos from yotube/vmeo and similar websites
yt-dlp
From the yt-dlp page:
yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork based on the now inactive youtube-dlc. The main focus of this project is adding new features and patches while also keeping up to date with ...
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Gratis Android application that can download videos from YouTube
Not sure what you are referring to, literally just downloaded a video with NewPipe.
NewPipe a FOSS project with an active community, your best course would most likely be to find whether others are ...
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YouTube downloader for Windows
3D Youtube Downloader is a windows desktop portable application that can download videos from youtube in various quality settings.
It can also convert into multiple formats including audio only for ...
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Application or web service to upload video files to Youtube while keeping hyphens in filenames
YouTube is removing the dashes/hyphens/underscores after it's uploaded to them, so no external application can have any say to prevent that.
If you want something there in the filenames, maybe you can ...
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Software to record video lectures on Linux
FFMPEG can capture video from a WebCam or other video source and there are a number of GUIs to control it with.
Not to directly record the videos but to annotate and add to your videos in post ...
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What is the best container for uploading videoless audio to youtube in terms of minimizing bandwidth?
Your question is actually trickier than it first seems like, so I'll need to answer it thrice.
[1] The obvious answer to "I want to compress my videos as much as possible with minimal quality loss" ...
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Android app to record audio and upload to YouTube as video?
I found that the Android app Spreaker Studio can record an audio voice file and upload this file as a video to a specified YouTube channel:
Source: https://www.spreaker.com/help/podcasters
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Which software can download YouTube videos in MKV format at 360p?
To download YouTube video you have 2 ways:
- download with online downloader
- download with a special soft
If you prefer the first way, you will download the standart quality of the video - ...
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