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Specify a starting point for videos<\/strong><\/h4>\nSay you send a YouTube video to a friend and ask him to fast forward to the funny scene at 03:52. He’ll probably have to wait for a while until he can watch those frames.<\/p>\n
Luckily you can now use this simple trick: add #t=XmYs<\/em><\/strong> at the end of the video URL \u2013 where X stands for minutes and Y for seconds \u2013 and the video will start right at that point. So for example, #t=3m52s is the parameter you’ll need to add to that video you wan to share with your friend. Nice, huh?<\/p>\n Youtube features many videos in which the important thing is sound, not images. Downloading the whole FLV video just to get the sound is not the best solution, so why not simply download the audio track and save it as an MP3 file?<\/p>\n This is what you can do with VidToMP3<\/a>, an online ripping tool that’s very easy to use: all you have to do is copy and paste the URL of the video you want to extract the sound from and download the resulting MP3 file. If you prefer a desktop solution, then use FLV Extract<\/a> to split the selected video in image, sound and source code.<\/p>\n Unlike traditional desktop video players, YouTube doesn’t feature speed controls with which to speed up the boring parts of a given video or play an important dialog at a slower speed. In these cases, you can use MySpeed<\/a>, a simple tool that runs in the background and displays a speed slider every time you load a YouTube video on the browser.<\/p>\n For those occasions when you want to focus on the video and forget about comments, stats and other distracting elements on the website, watching videos in full screen is the best solution. You can use the appropriate button on the embedded player or use the v\/ parameter instead of watch?v= to link directly to the full screen version. So Always bear in mind that a full screen video may lose image quality compared to the smaller version. But if you combine this function with the HD one, the results can be impressive!<\/p>\n YouTube doesn’t feature any tool to download videos to your computer, but there are dozens of software tools and online services that enable you to download your favorite videos, play them as FLV files and even convert them to other formats.<\/p>\n You can choose between desktop apps like vDownloader<\/a> or aTube<\/a> \u2013 including also easy tools like YouChoob<\/a> or Firefox add-ons like Video DownloadHelper<\/a> \u2013 or online tools such as VideoDL<\/a>, Vixy<\/a> or KeepVid<\/a>. If you’re looking for a desktop player, you can try FLV Player<\/a> or FLVPlayer4Free<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" YouTube has certainly caused a revolution in the way we enjoy content on the Web. A few years ago we used to waste a couple of hours every day surfing channels on TV. Now we spend that time on the computer instead, watching all sorts of online videos. So, if you want to make the … Continue reading “5 neat tips and tricks for YouTube”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[2355],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-7140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionyoutube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335728,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7140\/revisions\/335728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7140"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=7140"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=7140"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=7140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Tips](\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/12\/youtube-sound.png\")
Extract the audio track to MP3<\/strong><\/h4>\n![\"Tips](\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/12\/youtube-speed.png\")
Play videos at a faster or slower rate<\/strong><\/h4>\n![\"Tips](\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/12\/youtube-fullscreen.png\")
Play videos at full screen<\/strong><\/h4>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=<\/strong>A_EgbJFSAQM<\/code> would then be http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/<\/strong>A_EgbJFSAQM<\/code><\/p>\n![\"Tips](\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/12\/youtube-down.png\")
Download videos to your hard drive<\/strong><\/h4>\n