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Tagged with google-chrome video
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How to block/disable all videos from automatically loading in Chrome?
Many sites now have auto-playing or automatically streaming videos: embedded in news pages, down side bars promoting other content, and some sites even have massive honking-great purely decorative ...
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Why is YouTube buffering/loading behavior so horrible in Chrome?
I have been suffering from this for months, possibly even years, and I still don't have the slightest clue about the cause.
Let's say I open a video on YouTube in Chrome, like Jamie Hyneman's ...
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In Google Chrome on Linux, where is the flv if not in /tmp?
I like to keep videos because
I like buffering them and then playing them back-to-back in my media player,
I want to be able to stop/restart my browser without losing all the buffered video, and
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How can I disable HTML5 content in popular browsers like Firefox and Chrome?
The bad thing about Flash video was that it required a third-party plugin to play the content. The good thing was I could select which content to play; using the click-to-play feature in Firefox and ...
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How can youtube-dl download videos that require user authentication and 2FA? [closed]
When I try to download on of my private videos I get the following:
youtube-dl https://youtu.be/Q-xxxx-xxxx
[youtube] Q-xxxx-xxxx: Downloading webpage
[youtube] Q-xxxx-xxxx: Downloading video info ...
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Use Flash Player after 12 Jan 2021
I would like to use Flash Player to show web contents but since today (12 Jan 2021) Adobe is blocking it.
Is there a way to use it?
I've tried Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Brave browsers.
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Fullscreen video in Chrome shows URL in corner
When playing a fullscreen video in Chrome, the URL shows in the lower left corner. This happens for YouTube as well as other video players, where sometimes it covers the progress bar.
The suggestion ...
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Embedded YouTube videos don't go fullscreen in Facebook
I am using Chrome and this just happens in Facebook and just for YouTube videos (HTML5).
When going fullscreen it shows the video in for a second and than the video disappears and I see the Facebook ...
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Force Facebook to play videos in background tab
Recently Facebook added a feature that if I play a video and switch to another tab or a different program from chrome, the video stops playing.
Is there a way to force it to keep playing?
I use ...
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Black screen when playing video fullscreen in Windows 10
My Laptop has dual graphic card:Intel HD Graphics 530 and GTX 970m and I usually connect an external monitor to it, setting external monitor (noted as Monitor 1) as main monitor. Both monitors are on. ...
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Black screen issue playing videos in YouTube on Google Chrome
When I play a video in YouTube there is a black screen. I can use the interactions and hear the audio, I can't see the video.
I've tried the following:
There is enough space in my C drive for ...
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Chrome youtube doesn't play/Twitch plays with no sound
I have OS X Yosemite, Chrome version 40.0.2214.115 (64-bit)
When I open youtube video it loads but I can't play the video. I didn't download any extensions before youtube stopped working correctly (...
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Chrome: force youtube to play video in h.264 instead of WebM/VP9
I am using Chrome as my usual browser on OS X.
Since the introduction of VP9, youtube videos are now mostly streamed in VP9, requiring a lot of CPU computing to decode and killing my battery.
In ...
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Why does my internet get disabled during an upload to YouTube?
If I start a file download before starting the video upload then the download will continue at full speed while the video uploads, but if I try to navigate to any webpage on any device on my network ...
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Prevent embedded YouTube videos from autoplaying?
When accessing certain websites that have YouTube videos embedded I have noticed that sometimes when the webpage loads the YouTube video will automatically play and taking a look at the source code it ...
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