The Youtube test video can help Youtube users who are experiencing problems playing back videos on the popular video hosting website. Some Youtube users for instance mention regular playback problems, often described as stuttering playback which can be analyzed with the test video. Playback problems can have different reasons including connection problems or a slow [...]

Categories: The Web

Find, Mix and Watch. That is the slogan of Youtube’s newest addition Youtube Disco. The new feature is basically a music exploration service. It begins by entering an artist, band or song in the search form on the start page. Youtube will then crawl its vast database and display a results page that consists of [...]

Categories: Music and Video

Youtube video downloaders come in all sizes and shapes. Some are browser plugins that make it very comfortable to download individual videos, others are websites that accept Youtube urls and create a download for the user out of them or third party applications that differ in functionality. Most tech-savvy users will probably agree that a [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Google announced today that they will start offering movie rentals at their popular video portal Youtube. The five initial movies from the 2009 and 2010 Sundance Film Festival will be available from Friday on for US Youtube users with additional movies from partners being offered in the following weeks. The limitations of the movie rentals [...]

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We have described yesterday how the media player RealPlayer can be used to download Vevo videos from Youtube. While it is certainly one of the few – if not the only – free software solution to download Vevo videos it is not the only one as one of the commenters mentioned in the article. The [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera

The Realplayer is not held in very high regards by most users who have happened to come in contact with the player. This might change however with the discovery that the free version of RealPlayer SP is capable of downloading Vevo videos from Youtube (and maybe even Vevo itself but this has not been tried [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Linux, Mac, Software, Windows

Some Youtube videos are only viewable by visitors from specific countries. Users from other countries are greeted with a red error message stating that “This video contains content from [name]. It is no longer available in your country”. Companies and organizations limit the visibility of their videos on Youtube using country specific IP filters locking [...]

Categories: Online Services

I sometimes wish that I would be there when my friend, a family member or colleague watches the Youtube video that I have discovered. It sometimes happens if the url of the Youtube video is submitted via a chat interface. I usually open the Youtube video again which is then more or less in sync [...]

Categories: Online Services

If you are a Youtube regular you must have noticed the transition of many music videos that are now shown with a Vevo header that contains a more or less direct request to visit the Vevo website. Vevo is a cooperation between Youtube and several major record labels. The terms of the deal are not [...]

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