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How can I download non public Facebook video?

youtube-dl utility will work just fine, it just need your user credentials to be able to access the page. Like most sites, Facebook uses cookies for this. If you copy your cookies from your browser ...
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How to upload/publish video from new Google Drive to YouTube

Try this: Go to https://photos.google.com/settings and set "Google Drive / Show Google Drive photos & videos in your Photos library" to "ON"; Go to https://www.youtube.com/upload and on the right ...
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How can I get Twitter videos to continue playing even after their tab has lost focus?

In twitter settings uncheck the 'Video Autoplay' option, it seems to auto mute/pause too. Just click your avatar the go into 'Settings and Privacy. It's under the content section in the account tab.
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Disable videos in YouTube, listen to the audio only

There's an extension for Chrome, called "Audio Only Youtube" that does just that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/audio-only-youtube/pkocpiliahoaohbolmkelakpiphnllog (NB: this also allows ...
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Is there a way to control the number of seconds by which to forward/rewind a YouTube video?

Here, copy this script in the console or in the snippet tab in the sources of the developer tools window (F12). V_YOUTUBE_PLAYER = document.querySelector('ytd-player').getPlayer(); V_SECONDS = 2; ...
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Does changing the video quality on YouTube impact audio quality?

From YouTube's Recommended upload encoding settings (Advanced): Bitrate Note that the bitrates below are recommendations for uploads. Audio playback bitrate is not related to video ...
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How to rotate video on Google Photos?

Google plus is not available anymore. Steps to rotate Open the Google Photos App on your mobile device Tap on the vide you wish to edit Tap on settings at the bottom of the screen You have the ...
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How can I download non public Facebook video?

Here is the simplest way to download Facebook video that doesn't require visiting another website or installing/downloading any software before hand. Visit the Facebook page that shows the individual ...
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How do you turn on hotkeys in Coursera video player?

Right click on the video and select "Show Controls". Then you can go backwards and forwards by 15 s with the arrow keys.
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Can you subscribe to a YouTube channel as a podcast?

Listenbox does this. It supports videos, playlists, channels, plus you can queue items to listen later
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Can you subscribe to a YouTube channel as a podcast?

The web app Podsync.net converts a YouTube channel URL into a podcast-compatible feed URL. Figure 1: Podsync.net web interface
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How to enable the display of 1080p HD videos on Vimeo instead of the 720p default

The option to upgrade a video to 1080p is there, but available only to Plus and PRO members: Why can’t I upgrade my video to 1080p anymore? Good news: Plus and PRO members no longer need to ...
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How do I replace a video on YouTube and keep the same URL?

Unfortunately, you won't be able to replace an old video with a new one and keep the original view count, comments or ratings. Instead, you may want to try using annotations or link to the new version ...
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How can I get Twitter videos to continue playing even after their tab has lost focus?

Open Twitter in a separate window. It will continue playing.
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How to (most efficiently) download video from Periscope?

Here's my Windows batch script that supports all latest Periscope updates, plus has an option to download multiple replays, record live streams, convert .ts to .mp4 and rotate it, if necessary. Uses ...
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Watching Facebook videos without Flash

As of this writing Facebook supports HTML5 video but is still using Flash for Safari browsers. Why? Who knows. (source) Works fine without Flash if you're using Firefox or Chrome. For now ...
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Is there a way to control the number of seconds by which to forward/rewind a YouTube video?

If you load the YouTube video into an external player instead of using the HTML5 or flash embedded player, you can do so quite easily. For example, the latest versions of the free, open source, and ...
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Is there a way to control the number of seconds by which to forward/rewind a YouTube video?

Fortunately you can control the speed and the arrow keys moves the video by 2 sec at 0.5x. While the same moves by 5 sec at 1x. Hope that helps!!
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Would like to exclude any sort of video from a Google search

Google Search is geared up to return ‘hits’ that are the same as or similar to search terms. It has so much data that a list of “what I don’t want” rather than “what I do want” would be near infinite ...
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Some Twitter GIFs don’t work in PC browsers, do work in mobile browsers

It's because those GIFs are MP4s coded with high levels (6.0 etc.) that normal hardware can't play. In Chrome: Disable "Hardware-accelerated video" decode in chrome://flags (type this is ...
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Is there a way to find the YouTube video from a Facebook video?

Unfortunately, there is no direct way to do this. My best suggestion is to combine unique/specific combination of words in either a Google or Youtube search for whatever video you see. (eg - Snake ...
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Why Download button is hidden in TED?

Since you already know the name of the video you want to download, you can go to the Ted Talks List and download it from there. You can also use the Ted Talks Downloader to download multiple videos ...
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Why Download button is hidden in TED?

They have hidden download links under "share" link : https://support.ted.com/customer/portal/articles/2631608
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What is this advertisement on the bottom-left of a YouTube video?

This is a call to action overlay (which is different from an overlay ad). CTA overlays are available in advertisements (if a video ever has been used as a video ad, any CTA overlays that have been ...
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Merge and trim videos from Google Photos?

Yes, you have to download the video locally to edit. There is no edit or trim option for videos on Google Photos on computer. You can try this on Google Photos mobile app, there you will get edit ...
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Uploaded video on Google Drive constantly previews with "Whoops! There was a problem playing this video"

It actually has nothing to do with formats. Google Drive appears to have a bug when trying to use multiple Google accounts on the same machine through the dropdown list, e.g. uploading to the drive of ...
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Is it possible for the Manager or Editor of a YouTube channel to do live video?

The only solution I found is to “opt out of” permissions from YouTube Studio, and handle the permissions in your Google Brand Account. Add a person as Manager in Brand Account, and they will be able ...

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