There is a very good Firefox plugin I have found, this will show the parts of a video that are sponsorships and allow the viewer to skip them. This would be very useful for a fan of Linus Tech Tips or AVGN, but you are annoyed by the advertisements for…
Read MoreThe video hosting site Vimeo works the same as Youtube, it has separate files for video and audio that are put together to play an online video. This can be downloaded easily with a script. The youtube-dl script can download only the audio from a Youtube video, and it can…
Read MoreIt is possible to download just the audio from a Youtube video. This is very easy. Use youtube-dl to view information about the Youtube video and find the m4a audio track. 4.4 Sat Dec 07 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWPe9uh7FWU [youtube] JWPe9uh7FWU: Downloading webpage [youtube] JWPe9uh7FWU: Downloading video info…
Read MoreI having problems with Xvideo service thief in 2019. I cannot get it to download any video files anymore. But youtube-dl still works. Run sudo youtube-dl -U to update it, then it still works. I downloaded a Youtube video easily with it. jason@Yog-Sothoth:~$ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82u6gWS-dP4 [youtube] 82u6gWS-dP4: Downloading webpage [youtube]…
Read MoreThis nice command allows streaming some nice ambient drone music in the terminal with MPV. Very nice to listen to while doing other things. mpv http://ice.somafm.com/dronezone | sed -n "s/ icy-title: \(.*\)/\x1b[38;5;242m$(date +%T)\x1b[m | \1/p"mpv http://ice.somafm.com/dronezone | sed -n "s/ icy-title: \(.*\)/\x1b[38;5;242m$(date +%T)\x1b[m | \1/p" Play a Youtube video audio…
Read MorePlaying a Youtube video with mpv is very easy, it is also possible to skip to a certain part of the video whenever you wish. Make sure that you have the latest version of Youtube-dl first. sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/bin/youtube-dlsudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/bin/youtube-dl Then run this…
Read MoreYoutube now have an annoying overlay at the end of Youtube videos that shows other videos the viewer (might) be interested in and push this on the viewer, whether they want it or not. But this can be blocked with uBlock Origin. These are my uBlock Origin filter rules. !…
Read MoreThis simple one-liner will encode a video to a format suitable for Youtube. 4.4 Tue Sep 04 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ ffmpeg -i scorcher.avi -codec:v libx264 -crf 21 -bf 2 -flags +cgop -pix_fmt yuv420p -codec:a aac -strict -2 -b:a 384k -r:a 48000 -movflags faststart scorcher.mp4 This gives good quality output whilst…
Read MoreRip a Youtube video to a wav file very easily. This is a great way to get an audio copy of a Youtube vid to save to your music collection. Very useful way to get copies of quality music from the Internet and create a collection of music for free….
Read MoreI hate it when a plugin author updates their plugin and upon updating it, you get a PHP error that prevents you from running your website, necessitating that you log into your Cpanel to fix the problem. That is great. Why can they not test the plugin first before deploying…
Read MoreDownloading clips with clipgrabWatch Youtube videos with MPVDownload Youtube videos while playing them with mpv If the xvideoservicethief application does not work for you in 2019, give this one a go instead, it is working very well on multiple websites: https://securitronlinux.com/bejiitaswrath/how-to-download-videos-from-websites-in-2019/. it is called Clibgrab and does the same job…
Read MoreThis is how to play a Youtube video with mpv. mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdjk_W8nTnompv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdjk_W8nTno This is very easy to do, it does not work with private videos, but it is a nice slimline way to play HD videos on your Linux machine.
Read MoreTo create a video file from a wav, just use ffmpeg. This is how I created a 4k resolution video using just ffmpeg and an image file and audio wav I got off the Internet. Put both files into the same folder and then run this command. This will add…
Read MoreThere is the ability to open a Vimeo video with VLC, but Youtube URL`s can be opened with VLC as well. Paste the Youtube video URL into VLC allows the playback of this video in VLC. Then the video will open up in VLC. This is a great way to…
Read MoreIf this program does not work for you in 2019, give this one a go instead, it is working very well on multiple websites: https://securitronlinux.com/bejiitaswrath/how-to-download-videos-from-websites-in-2019/. it is called Clibgrab and does the same job as xVideoServiceThief, but works with Vimeo and Youtube. As well as Dailymotion. The xVideoServiceThief application is…
Read MoreFirstly, install youtube-dl. jason@darkstar:~/Music$ sudo apt-get install youtube-dljason@darkstar:~/Music$ sudo apt-get install youtube-dl Then run this command with the Youtube video URL. jason@darkstar:~/Music$ youtube-dl -f bestaudio -x –audio-format mp3 –prefer-ffmpeg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWFm2LIYNjg [youtube] UWFm2LIYNjg: Downloading webpage [youtube] UWFm2LIYNjg: Extracting video information [youtube] UWFm2LIYNjg: Downloading DASH manifest [download] Destination: Dune (1983) OST -…
Read MoreYoutube lately has been buffering extremely slowly. This is due to an unknown cause at Googles end. I can try to watch a 480p video on Youtube and it will take ages to buffer; but if I go to Vimeo; a HD video will load instantly and buffer with lightning…
Read MoreThis is Joe visiting the Dreamhack LAN party on day 1. This massive gaming exposition hosts gamers from around the world who will challenge each other at various games such as League Of Legends, World of Warcraft and Counterstrike. Counterstrike; even though the graphics are not as good as modern…
Read MoreI have just seen the free movie about The Pirate Bay and at 10:07; you see a KDE 3.4 Linux desktop. I can not tell what Linux distribution this is but it is the good old KDE 3.4 for sure. The best and fastest version of KDE. The Pirate Bay…
Read MoreIf you have two Firefox windows open you may drag the tab from one window onto the new tab window on the other window and the tab will be added to the second Firefox window. Do not install the Facebook dislike extension for Google Chrome. I installed that and I got…
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