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Download videos

VLC

See VLC tips.

  1. Play the video in VLC
  2. On VLC, check Tools -> Codec information and find a URL there
  3. Open the URL on a browser. Right click the video and choose to save the video.

The method works for youtube and vimeo videos.

Firefox/Chrome add-on

3 Easy Ways to Download YouTube Videos in Ubuntu and Other Linux Distributions

Video DownloadHelper add-on works fine when I test it on Firefox and Chrome. I need to install an app Video DownloadHelper companion app (the source code is on Github) in order to use the extension. It saves the videos to ~/dwhelper folder.

Youtube-dl

mp3

ytfzf: search & play

ytfzf - Search (With Thumbnails) And Play YouTube Videos From A Terminal

sudo apt install jq mpv fzf  # youtube-dl 
cd github
~/github$ cd ytfzf/
~/github/ytfzf$ sudo make install
~/github/ytfzf$ cd
# WARNING: The script ueberzug is installed in '/home/brb/.local/bin' which is not on PATH.
sudo apt install python3-pip
pip3 install ueberzug
export PATH=/home/brb/.local/bin:$PATH
ytfzf -t scRNA  # just an example

Convert av1 format to h264 format

This is necessary if we add videos to Plex. Convert a video to MP4 (H.264/AAC) with ffmpeg.

Use Handbrake. Converting Video Files to H.264 MP4 Format Using HandBrake on Linux

$ apt-cache show handbrake-cli
$ sudo apt-get install handbrake-cli
$ HandBrakeCLI --help
$ HandBrakeCLI -e x264 -i input.mp4 -o output.mp4

GUI

Learning

Tips 1: SMTube

Search and watch Youtube

Tips 2: Pennywise

Open Websites In A Floating, Borderless Window/Picture in picture

Keyboard shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts for YouTube

24 of the Most Useful YouTube Keyboard Shortcuts

  • j: backward 10 seconds
  • l: forward 10 seconds
  • >: Speed up the video playback rate.
  • <: Slow down the video playback rate.
  • c: captions
  • m: mute

Biology

Bypass any restricted youtube video without an extension

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/bypass-restricted-youtube-video-without-extension/

7 of the Best YouTube Channels for Learning Drums

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/best-youtube-channels-learn-drums/

Cooking

5 Unique YouTube Cooking Channels Worth Watching

How to find HDR content on YouTube

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-find-hdr-content-on-youtube-1829374364

Add YouTube Player Controls To Your Linux Desktop With browser-mpris2 (Chrome Extension)

https://www.linuxuprising.com/2018/08/add-youtube-player-controls-to-your.html

Live Stream on youtube

5 Relaxing YouTube Channels to Help You Chill Out

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/relaxing-youtube-channels-chill-out/

Suggested videos overlay

How to remove the suggested videos overlay from a paused, embedded YouTube video

How Much Money Can You Make on YouTube

How Much Money Can You Make on YouTube?

Stats for Nerds

How to Use YouTube's 'Stats for Nerds'