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July 20

How do you download videos on Youtube?

Right-clicking the video doesn't seem to do anything, but yet the browser can play it. 67.175.224.138 (talk) 06:29, 20 July 2019 (UTC).[reply]

That's because the Youtube Web site uses the Media Source Extensions API to display the video (it's merged together on the fly using client-side JavaScript from little chunks of video, rather than being a single video file).

If you are able to log in to the account you uploaded the video(s) using, you can go to the https://takeout.google.com/ Web site, log in, and use the tool there to download the Youtube videos. This gives the best quality in some cases, returning the original video file, but sometimes doesn't work (and if you can't log in, it's not an option).

If you are unable to log in, you can use the "youtube-dl" program to retrieve the files. This also is able to get the automatically-generated captions and such. The options can be a bit overwhelming, but the documentation is good.

I use these options:

youtube-dl -i --geo-bypass --write-description --write-info-json --write-annotations --write-thumbnail --write-all-thumbnails --write-sub --write-auto-sub --all-subs -k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whatever

I don't know any good way to get the comments, sorry.

Hope this helps, good luck rescuing your videos! :) —{{u|Goldenshimmer}} (they/their)｜Talk｜Contributions 07:04, 20 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Anyways, I was gonna say, I've always downloaded videos using Realplayer. But only for IE, never for Firefox or Chrome. When viewing under IE, if I mouse over the video, a Realplayer dialog pops up, asking if I want to download. That was on my old, Windows 7 laptop at 2 GB RAM. I now use a Windows 7 laptop at 8 GB ram. Nothing happens when I mouse over. So I downloaded the latest version of Realplayer. Now when I mouse over the Youtube on Chrome, an icon pops up, but says it couldn't find a video to download on the page. If I right-click the video, and select retrieve url of the video, and post it in the Real dialog to look for the video, it still can't do it. Weird. Should also say, nothing happens when I mouse over on IE, and yet the Realplayer settings says to show dialog on IE after 7 seconds, and nothing happens after 7 seconds. So, I can only still download Youtube videos on my old laptop and yet they are both Windows 7! Strange. 67.175.224.138 (talk) 14:08, 20 July 2019 (UTC).[reply]

I pay to use YTD. Star Lord - 星爵 (talk) 10:47, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"cloud documents," "cloud pictures"

I recently restored files (using Carbonite Safe) to a new laptop (MS Surface) with Windows 10 Pro operating system. Instead of the expected Documents and Pictures folders, I found Cloud Documents and Cloud Pictures. I think (and hope), given the sizes reported, that the files reside on this computer. But I did get a couple of warnings during the restore that my OneDrive was full.

Under "This PC" (size 6.73 GB) there are Documents and Pictures folders with some, but not nearly all, of the files under the "clouds," that is under OneDrive (46.9 GB).

So where are my files, really? My cloud, which is full, is only 5GB. Is OneDrive on my computer, or in the cloud? Is my backup being copied to the cloud? Is there a setting to do that, or to turn it off?

The files in the "cloud" folders are marked with red x's and there is a persistent warning in my tray that my OneDrive is full.

--Halcatalyst (talk) 22:05, 20 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Since your OneDrive is full at 5Gb it contains only a fraction of your files. All other files have not been synchronized and remain in local folders on your computers. Ruslik_Zero 08:22, 21 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I prefer to have my files in the local folder, since I have a backup application. I don't care about OneDrive. How can I bring this about? --Halcatalyst (talk) 12:10, 21 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

What do you want to bring about? Ruslik_Zero 20:56, 22 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

1. Try accessing files when offline or

2. Download, burn and boot a Linux live CD or USB (example) and see if you can still access the files (a live CD doesn't know how to connect to the cloud) or

3. Copy the files to another disk drive or an USB stick with the internet connected.

Glad I don't have Win 10 to bang my head against teh cloud. 93.136.122.90 (talk) 03:28, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]