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Youube list of video formats not well supported on end user applicaions

In Firefox or Chrome, Youtube will display "An error occurred, please try later" when loading an unsupported format. I find this message (which is many years old) offensive because it makes ...
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Youtube playing extremly slowly in Firefox on OpenSuse TW

I installed a fresh OpenSuse TW system on my beautiful machine, and everything went flawlessly, except for YouTube. I installed the damn codecs with opi codecs; I enabled/disabled hardware ...
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mpv fails to play youtube videos

I've been using mpv for a while, but now whenever I try to play a youtube video the following output shows up: [ffmpeg] https: HTTP error 403 Forbidden Failed to open https://rr5. . . EDL: Could not ...
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CLI utility to search and download YouTube videos in wav format

I have a text file contains about 50 song titles. I'm searching for a CLI utility that can take each title from the text file, search for it on YouTube, get the top 4 video links then download the ...
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ffmpeg "-pix_fmt yuv420p" option when streaming on Youtube

The official tutorial https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/StreamingGuide uses the -pix_fmt yuv420p option. I used it too, copied it from the tutorial, and streaming from FFmpeg to Youtube works for me. ...
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Mpv not running youtube urls because youtube-dl is out of date

I'm using Linux Mint 21.1 and I recently installed mpv. When I run mpv followed by a youtube url I get the following lines: [ytdl_hook] ERROR: Unable to extract updater id: please report this issue on ...
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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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How to fix choppy YouTube video playback? Enable WebRender

When streaming videos on YouTube using firefox-esr and firefox, the video playback is choppy with an uneven frame-rate. CPU utilisation is high; 20% - 25% when streaming a 4K video on a Ryzen 5800X, ...
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How can I stream my Linux console output to Youtube?

I'd like to broadcast a Linux server's console output on Youtube. This console is on a remote machine. I'll be running a trade bot on this particular server and I want my friends to be able see what ...
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How can you download 4k youtube videos in mp4 using youtube-dl?

I have observed that the size of mp4 videos are larger than webm for a same resolution video. Which makes me wonder that either there is some quality loss or compression in webm. youtube-dl -F url ...
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YouTube Live Streaming doesn't work on CentOS

My laptop has Ryzen 2200U with a Radeon Vega 3 and I am using it with CentOS 8, KDE 5 and Chromium version 81. I installed x264 and gstreamer-plugin-blah stuffs, but still both Konqueror and Chromium ...
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recursively find out webpage video file url with wget or something like this

i'm trying to script a bash script which automatically can download video or audio files, maybe even "playlists" from youtube and other platforms like this. Especially the youtube video file ...
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Record screen and upload on youtube

I'd like to record my screen and have the recorded video automatically uploaded on youtube. Is there any software that does this? I know there are screen recorders like Kazam that easily permit to ...
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Block all websites except Kahn academy

I am trying to set up a ubuntu user so that they can access the Kahnacademy instructional website, but not anything else. In particular, I want to block youtube. There are instructions here but I ...
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Youtube-dl fails on youtube and works on other sites

I started having this issue a few days ago: youtube-dl no longer works for links to YouTube, but works fine for other sites such as Instagram: $ youtube-dl https://www.instagram.com/p/B47c667AKPo/ [...
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