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What difference between these video files might make YouTube accept one and not the other? [closed]

What difference between these files might make YouTube accept one and not the other? Each is about 100KB or 150KB. Each of the two are one second long so are small easy to download and quick to test ...
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Identify a song snippet (within a YouTube video)

There's this Youtube video (well, a series of them, but that doesn't matter) I've watched, which contains a short segment with a snippet of some sort of semi-nonsense/semi-gibberish-sounding song (at ...
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ffmpeg video does not play on whatsapp [closed]

I've been trying to get a video to play on whatsapp but I can't get it to work. I've read almost all the stackexchange posts on this topic but nothing seems to work. I use the following command to ...
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How to download a video from zoom web page

How do I download a video stored on the zoom web page? For example, on Introduction there is no link allowing you to download the video. How can he do it? On the zoom application, I haven't the ID of ...
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Does YouTube support speed control on the Mobile Site (m.youtube.com)?

YouTube provides a mobile site however, no matter what I set my UserAgent to be I never get the HTML5 media player with speed controls, For example, set your UserAgent to Mozilla / 5.0 (Linux; ...
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Is all the data of a 144p video also stored EXACTLY same as in a 720p video?

Whenever I switch between 144p to a higher resolution it's obvious I need to download more data to view the same youtube video. Suppose I have buffered the whole video in 144p and I switch it to 720p ...
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Is there a way to create a playlist in YouTube that play a section of a video?

I would like to create a playlist of music to listen. It seems that the default YouTube playlist function only allow you add a whole video to a playlist, but I would like to add only a section of a ...
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YouTube offline videos captions not seen on playback

I have saved a YouTube video of 1.5 hrs after verifying that it has captions(Offline videos). However when I play the offline video with the captions on, it still doesn't show any captions. Please ...
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How can I add a new audio track with uploaded sounds or music?

It seems as if YouTube Studio is still in alpha. There is no obvious way to upload your own sounds or music to use as a track, and you're stuck with their own canned sounds. There's even a link to an &...
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How can I upload multiple videos to BitChute? [closed]

How can I upload multiple videos to BitChute, rather than each one individually?
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How to make my YouTube video be able to play at 2x without getting stuck?

I have uploaded a YouTube video which when played in 1.75x onwards, the video appears stuck but the audio plays. Why is this behavior seen? How do I fix that?
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How do you turn on hotkeys in Coursera video player?

I like to see lectures like reading, with regressions and tempo variation. This is done by hotkeys, which are especially important in full screen mode, which is also advisable because even fewer ...
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Is there a way to exclude video results from Google Search? [duplicate]

Sometimes I am specifically looking for a written tutorial on a subject (in a blog format, etc), but all I can find are video tutorials in Google Search results. This is especially frustrating when I'...
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How do you share a private YouTube video to lots of people quickly?

I have to share 6 YouTube videos with more than 60 people but privately. Is there a better way to do this faster so that I don't have to paste them into each video one at a time? It's impossible to ...
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When inserting a video in an Office 365 PowerPoint online presentation, how can I easily make its dimension match the slide's dimension?

I've inserted a video in an Office 365 PowerPoint online presentation. How can I make its dimension match the slide's dimension, without having to painfully manually try to match it? Example:
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How do I browse TikTok videos without a proprietary mobile app?

I wish to browse TikTok without a mobile app. Is there a web interface available? It seems that youtube-dl somehow can access the videos without a closed source app. How do I browse/search the videos?
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How do you view the file size of a video in a webpage?

I am using Chrome and was trying to inspect a Flash video to check the file size and could not find it using the built in developer tools. Is there a way in Chrome, as well as other browsers? How ...
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How to rotate a video in the new Youtube Studio?

Is it possible to rotate a video in the new Youtube Studio even after Google removed the "Classic Studio" button?
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How to set a default video quality on all YouTube videos?

I have a fair internet connection speed and every time I play a video from YouTube it defaults to 144p although my connection could support 360p without buffering. I have to manually switch to 360p ...
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How to play YouTube videos in 240 by default

I have a slow internet connection and I changed the setting in YouTube to "I have a slow connection and never play HD video". Even so, it starts loading the video in 360, so that every time I need to ...
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How to paste a Peek video/animation in Google Docs?

Peek (on Linux) offers four formats to record the screen, and none of them seem to work when copied and pasted: GIF/APNG: I get a picture at the time of copying instead of the Peek video. WebM/MP4: I ...
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Is it possible to post videos on LinkedIn that play automatically?

We posted a video on linked in but it does not automatically play when scrolling the feed. I read that in 2017 linked.in started allowing users to post videos as autoplay. Is this still possible and ...
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Uploaded a 5K video to YouTube, but it doesn't show 5K in the view option (only 4K and below)

I've uploaded a 5K video to YouTube, but it doesn't show 5K in the view option (only 4K and below). What could be the issue? 5K video codec, FPS and resolution as shown by VLC (recorded by a GoPro 10):...
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How can I download non public Facebook video?

I want to download a video uploaded by a friend on Facebook for offline access. How can I do that? I tried almost all Chrome extensions on Chrome store and none seems to work. Also, youtube-dl didn't ...
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How to get a link to an exact time in a Microsoft Stream video?

Both on YouTube1 and Google Drive2, it is possible to create a link which starts the video at some specific time. On Microsoft Stream, when I write some timestamps into the description, after clicking ...
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Disable 'Skip Intro' button in Netflix

How can I disable the Skip Intro button when watching a show on Netflix? I find the bright yellow/orange button extremely obnoxious when trying to enjoy a television show. I do not want to see the pop-...
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How do I pause a timer in Clipchamp?

I'm editing a video in Clipchamp and am using the Countdown Timer text effect with Count Up enabled to create an on-screen timer. I want to pause the timer when it finishes so I can display the final ...
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How can I play a video within a Confluence wiki page?

Inserting a video within a Confluence wiki page just link to it: How can I play a video within a Confluence wiki page?
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How to search for videos with views>100K, like ratio>70% and comments>=500?

Is there a way to search for all these filters in youtube site? It's obvious that it's not possible from youtube filters. So, I am trying to find a query that youtube uses to find those stuffs. What'...
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How to redirect an old YouTube video to an updated version?

I made a few tweaks to a video, and I'd prefer people to go to that one, instead of the old one. I understand that I can't replace the video, I have to add the new one, but I'm going round in circles ...
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How to specify a price range for movies on Amazon Prime Video?

Amazon Prime Video has some categories you can browse by price (e.g. "$4.99 or less", "$9.99 or less"). Sometimes when searching Amazon at large, you can specify both a minimum and ...
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Can you subscribe to a YouTube channel as a podcast?

Videos are available in several different formats on YouTube, and RSS feeds are provided for channels. Is there a feed that will allow me to subscribe in iTunes?
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How do I download videos from screencast-o-matic?

After sending a video to a friend, he wants to download the video from the screencast-o-matic.com link. How can he do it? Are there any extensions that support them, or do I need to use another site?
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YouTube keeps lowering the automatic quality even with very good internet speed

If I leave the quality of a video on "automatic", on a long video it will start at the highest, and every few minutes it will knock it down one step, until I'm seeing the video in in the ...
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Why is YouTube so incredibly bad at deciding where to insert ads?

I don't watch very much on YouTube, but I do watch late-night shows now and then (mainly Stephen Colbert). YouTube does an incredibly bad job of deciding where to insert mid-show ads. It appears that ...
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How to rotate video on Google Photos?

I have a couple of videos on Google Photos. Now some of them were rotated automatically, others not. How can I manually rotate them? I want to avoid download, rotate and re-upload!
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How do I download videos from Facebook?

I have a video on Facebook that I'd like to share with people outside Facebook, but I don't have the original video file. How can I download the Facebook video to put it on public web sites, like ...
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YouTube is prepending videos to "Watch Later" playlist instead of appending them

Usually when I added a video to my "Watch Later" playlist on YouTube, it would be added to the end of the list. But in 2022, when I "add to watch later", it adds the video to the ...
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Disable videos in YouTube, listen to the audio only

My internet connection is quite slow (128 kbps while browsing) and I want to know if I can disable video streaming on YouTube and listen only to the audio portion. There are many songs on YouTube ...
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Is there a way to control the number of seconds by which to forward/rewind a YouTube video?

By pressing j or l on your keyboard, you can forward/rewind a YouTube video by 10 sec. But sometimes I need the ability to forward or rewind it by 3 sec, 5 sec, etc. Is there a way to control this? ...
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Link to Bitchute Video at Specific Starting Time

In youtube, you can link to a video at a specific starting time by adding query string parameters, like ?t=23m3s, to the end of the URL. How can this be done with bitchute videos?
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Piracy site -- obtaining video URLs for Google videos (in a Picasa album)?

There's a piracy site that is using (what appears to be) a Google Video CDN (Picasa album?) to host episodes of a television series that they don't have rights to. (example here: https://www....
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Whatsapp Web not forwarding videos

I am unable to forward videos on whatsapp web since the last week. A small error symbol appears with the forwarded message that says "Couldn't send this message" when I hover my mouse over ...
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WhatsApp Web: how to send a video so that it is playable within WhatsApp?

When I try to send a video from a WhatsApp Web, running on Windows 10 or Linux, the video file gets attached as a file and says "Preview not available": In order to watch such a video, it ...
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Already loaded video data is being discarded

As you probably know, the YouTube video player caches the loaded portions of the video so one can seek to any previously-loaded part of the video without re-downloading it. When viewing a video and ...
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How do I specify a starting timestamp in a livestream.com video?

YouTube provides a way to give someone a link to a video, with a specific starting timestamp. I'd like to do something similar, but with a livestream video. Here's a sample livestream video.
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How to let particular advertiser purchase a pre roll ad for our videos?

We have a local company that wants to run a video pre roll campaign on all of the videos on our channel. How do we set this up? Do they have to create an AdSense account first or something? Can we ...
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Facebook videos have no sound until I click to unmute

When I play a video in Facebook desktop web, it starts muted and I have to click to enable audio: This doesn't seem to be related to any of the Video settings I can find - I've tried all combinations ...
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Looking for website for watching Dropbox/Google Drive videos online

I want to watch videos with my friends together. Usually we create Zoom conference and just click "Start" on the video simultaneously. The problem is we usually watch our selfmade videos which we ...
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Upload videos to IGTV in Instagram besides the 9:16 and 16:9 ratio, as some accounts have done

Is there a way (on cellphone, via Facebook or whatever) to upload a video in actual 4:3 ratio to IGTV in Instagram and keep that proportion everywhere (much like in regular Instagram posts), instead ...