YouTube MySpeed
Are YouTube videos taking too much time to load on your internet connection? Visit the
YouTube MySpeed page
to find your video streaming speed and compare it with the average
speed of your ISP, your city, your state, your country and the world.
YouTube Disco
YouTube is all set to replace your music players with
YouTube Disco.
This music discovery project allows you to find the videos of your
choice, create a list of them and then easily watch them without having
the need to choose a new video after the one you are watching is
finished.
YouTube Snakes Easter egg
You can play the classic Snakes game while watching any video in your
browser. Just pause and resume a video, hold the left arrow key for 2
seconds and while still holding it, press the Up arrow key. This only
works in the new YouTube player on videos played on YouTube.com.
YouTube Editor
Do you edit your videos before uploading them to YouTube? Now, you don't
need to because it lets you to do all of that online with
YouTube Editor;
well not all of that but it at least lets you combine, trim and rotate
videos. The best part about YouTube Editor is that it allows you to find
copyright free music that you can add to your videos. It also offers
some comparably advanced features like stabilizing shaky videos and
inserting transitions.
YouTube Leanback
YouTube lets you watch the videos of your choice but have you ever
wanted to just sit back and enjoy watching videos just like you watch
television?
YouTube Leanback can help. YouTube Leanback plays high quality full screen videos tailored to your choices (if you are signed in to your
Google
account). If you are not signed in, you can choose a category to watch
videos from, watch featured videos and even search for the video of your
choice. You can then
connect your TV to your computer to seamlessly enjoy TV, YouTube style.
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YouTube Leanback |
YouTube XL
While you can enjoy videos on your TV using Leanback, the interface is
far from desirable. So, to allow users on smart TVs browse videos more
effectively, YouTube has an
XL version for large screen sizes. This version does not have comments and other unimportant stuff that you see in the standard version.
Set default video playback quality
Are you annoyed at manually changing the quality of every YouTube video you watch? Now you don't need to, because YouTube has
an option
that automatically lets you select the quality of videos you see. If
you have a slow connection, you can select the option of never playing
high quality videos. You can also select the option of showing captions
and annotations automatically.
Watch Videos blocked in your country : URL trick
If the URL of the video that is
blocked in your country
is youtube.com/watch?v={video-id}, you can access it by going to
youtube.com/v/{video-id}. As an additional advantage, you will be able
to view the video at the full size of your browser window.
Link to a specific time in a video
If you want to link to a video at a specific time, you can add #t=XXs to
the URL where XX is a variable which represents the number of seconds
after which the video will start.
YouTube Live
YouTube Live
lets you find all live broadcasts available. You can also see a list of
videos that are scheduled to be broadcasted at a later date.
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Create a feed of almost anything on YouTube
Just go to the
YouTube Data API page and build a custom
feed
for yourself. However, there is a problem with the URI generated for
specific categories as "{http://gdata.youtube.com/ schemas/ 2007/
categories.cat}" is also added. Remove this and the URI is good to go.
YouTube Charts
Want to find the best videos on YouTube? Use
YouTube Charts
to find what other users are watching, discussing and favoring. You can
select a particular category to determine the best videos in that
particular category. You can even filter videos to determine what has
been popular this week, this month or this year. You also have the
option to play all the videos obtained in results.
Legally Watch Full Length Movies and TV Shows on YouTube
YouTube has a
dedicated page
to allow users to watch full-length ad supported movies for free.
Movies are classified based on their genre and are offered in full HD
quality. Movies are uploaded by the creators for the purpose of creating
another source of revenue for themselves as Google gives them a portion
of the advertising revenue. A similar page
exists for TV shows.
YouTube Feather Beta
Love browsing videos but are on a terribly slow connection?
Feather,
the new experimental feature to allow users on slow connections enjoy
YouTube might help you. It achieves this by serving the lowest amount of
data to a user. Naturally, this means removal of several features that
don't add much value. Feather is currently available only as an opt-in
service which allows you to opt out anytime you want.