Many Youtube users do not like the fact that Youtube videos start playing as soon as the video is opened. This objection has several reasons. The most prominent ones are that users with slow connections can experience pauses during playback as the video download speed is slower than the playback speed of the video. Another [...]
Youtube Annotations
Youtube has finally added a new feature to their website, it’s called Youtube Annotations and you can see it here in action. It’s basically subtitles for videos although they prefer to call it annotations to make it clear that they can be used for a broader purpose. Subtitles usually only provide a textual version of [...]
Download Mp3 from Youtube Videos
Several web services have been created to convert the audio of Youtube videos into mp3 files. Most of them however require the url of the video as input which means that the process requires some heavy copy and paste operations if several videos are to be converted. And then MP3 Getter. appeared on the scene. [...]
Watch Restricted Youtube Videos in any Country
Some videos on Youtube are only available to users of a specific country, countries or region. Everyone else may not watch the video and receives a message stating that “This video is not available in your country.” Youtube is also restricting access to videos that have been flagged to contain (possible) inappropriate content and users [...]
Higher Quality Videos starting to appear on Youtube
When we read the announcement that higher quality videos would come to Youtube we were delighted that the video quality would finally see an upgrade. Apparently the conversion has started and some videos are already available in different quality versions. It still looks like Youtube is testing settings and stuff and that not everyone can access those higher quality videos yet.
Speed up Youtube Video Playback and Download
Youtube Videos which are also used on sites like Myspace or embedded into blog posts sometimes take ages to load which results in freezes and stuttering which can only be solved by pausing the playback until the video is fully loaded. There is a possible way that would accelerate the download of the youtube video by up to five times. This is done by the free software Speedbit Video Accelerator which builds up five different connections to the video server to speed up the streaming of the video. This method does not help if you are already using the maximum bandwidth available of course.
