I came across this fact randomly, the same way I found out Google Keep could lowkey scrape the text from an image. No need to mess around with QuickTime, Windows Media Player and iMovie.īut you know what vaulted it into the TFR this week? VLC can download YouTube videos. It’s a free app capable of playing pretty much any video format I’ve ever heard of. Regarding VLC I think the resolution option should be directly under the Network tab in the Open Media window, and not tucked away in the advanced settings.Welcome back from Memorial Day, reporters! I was recently helping a friend set up a new laptop, and there are not many apps that I download right off the bat. It seems YouTube are making some major changes.
For the best experience please update your browser.” YT also again gives me the message “We’ll stop supporting this browser soon. I assume that they’ve removed the VP8 videos, which were the only ones working in that environment. That same website version is the default and as far as I know only thing that works on Pale Moon 26.5.Īs of 5 February it is no longer possible to play videos on YouTube in Pale Moon 26.5 on Windows XP. On 3 February they put up a message on Firefox that their old website version, which I’m still using as I never upgraded and constantly switched to the old thing when they introduced the script hell, will be removed soon: “This YouTube version will be gone soon. But only for 2-3 days, or possibly only those two videos I was watching (they were very long (sport events)).
The same day (13 Jan) I tried opening a YT videostream via VLC for the first time, and it worked! At 720p too. However, just 1-2 days later that disappeared, so I guess they postponed it.
For the best experience please upgrade your browser” on Pale Moon 26.5 on Windows XP. On 13 January 2020 YouTube said “We’ll stop supporting this browser soon. Paste the address to your YouTube video in the Enter network address input box and give it a few moments to load up the video instantly in your app. In the app version of this wonderful software, you will find the stream option in the hamburger menu (three lines on the top-left).
There are a few options that you can set before streaming and you can also choose what happens after the video streams. You can find the video resolution and other media information by hitting CTRL + J or from Tools > Media information.
The available options are Best available, Full HD (1080p), HD (720p), Standard Definition (576 or 480 lines), Low Definition (360 lines) and Very Low Definition (240 lines).