Some time back I installed a widget in Chrome (Mac) to enable downloading of YouTube videos*. It looks like this...
Since then I've found better ways, & this widget obscures useful information in the YouTube toolbar. I've gone through my Chrome extensions, & it isn't one of them. Can anyone tell me how to remove this widget?
* Yes, I know downloading violates YouTube's TOS, however there are legitimate reasons for downloading. In my case it's to use the video within another video that discusses the embedded one.
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I've read a couple of documents (google searches) in working around Picture-in-Picture (PiP). It really says it is available only for video elements. (See reference: https://w3c.github.io/picture-in-picture)
Also looked into the code of PiP extension created by chrome
You can see from the code here that it finds the "largest" video element.
My question is, how did they make it work in YouTube embedded videos? It is inside an iframe, right?
I tried this approach in order to get the video inside the iframe. It will not work because of cross origin policy and it is clear that this is not the approach they used in the extension.
Someone know what's behind all this or someone else experiencing the same?
I am having a difficult time embedding a YouTube video with the auto captioning (CC) button toggle. I have searched and the only thing I could find was documentation from Google stating I could add cc_load_policy=1 to the URL string to enable this.
After researching on here I came across this post: Youtube Closed Caption for HTML5 Not Working. One of the commenters mentioned they also set cc_load_policy to 1, however it looks like this may not longer be supported in newer videos? Is there a definitive source that states whether or not we can use automatic captioning in embedded videos? I would have assumed this should be an easy feature to add.
After extensive research and asking a good friend of mine who is a YT expert, no, it is not currently possible.
Only good workaround I see right now is Plyr: https://github.com/sampotts/plyr
Demo: https://plyr.io/
I tested it just now and it works great, but it's another plugin...
Exception: your own videos, you can turn CC on and it will reflect in the embedded versions, with a toggle button for CC (but will be on by default when the user plays the video on the page where it is embedded).
Cheers -
How does chrome know which tabs are playing some sound? Alternatively, how does chrome know which tabs to put the speaker sign on?
This article may be useful:
From ghacks.net:
"Google Chrome uses an internal version of Adobe Flash which Google can use to determine when Flash is being used for audio playback.
Mozilla does not have that luxury. While it is working on a patch to display indicators when HTML5 is being used for audio playback, it cannot do anything about plug-in contents on its own."
Assuming that's correct, then from there it's not hard to imagine that if they know of every single instance of flash being used for audio playback, that they probably have an associated property indicating which tab it is on.
I have MP3s and other file formats that I want to provide through my website to iPhone and iPad users. VLC's iOS app seems to fit the bill, but they say
Additionally, third party websites and apps
may include links to open streams directly in VLC for iOS.
Here is the official documentation provided
How can I do that? I can't seem to find any documentation about it. I'm considering making a custom app just to accomplish it, but that seems silly.
Starting from VLC 2.0.2 you can use a link of type:
vlc://path/to/file to have the device open VLC if it is installed.
Also check the VideoLAN forums here
I'm not sure why I thought the file should be handled by the browser (chrome in my case) and then do something (for chrome I think its use QuickTime to play) but instead I just get an untitled browser title, and the page doesn't actually load, as if its loading an empty html page
anyway the address is:
www.motionvideos.tv/video/1022_market_review_february_2012_taylors.mp4
Other details which may effect it:
The site uses WordPress, which is currently not functioning, due to someone's fiddling, and will be down for a day or so (stupid zeus server redirects)
The video is just under 9MB.
Possible causes?
This link is for video download.
Do you want it to show on page?
If so you need to open a HTML page to embed this in.
This is how you embed it via code:
http://www.mediacollege.com/video/format/mpeg4/streaming/example.html
For WP you`ll need to open up a post and use a dedicated plugin for embedding.
Also, you should know that :
MP4 is not a universally common codec - some users (many?) will not be able to view it
The file itself will load directly from the server, thus noticeably effecting total bandwidth usage (can reflect on site speed, hosting costs and etc)
Also not all hosters support (by default) media hosting. This got a lot to do with above mentioned bandwidth issue.
I would suggest re-coding to more common codec + using 3-rd party provider
(I.E. Flash + Youtube for one is a popular choice but you can also go with AVI + Media Hosting Provider X)
Hope this helps.