YouTube tips and tricks: Best 13

YouTube as we all know is solely about videos. In fact, we can say YouTube is equal to videos. With over 1 billion users, a whooping 300 hours video upload every minute and the third most visited site after Google and Facebook, it is is no hidden fact that the Internet cannot be complete without it. Some great tips and tricks will make it even fun right?

Let's check out some great tips and tricks» 

1. YouTube tricks and tips: Keyboard shortcuts:

J - rewind 10 seconds
L - fast-forward 10 seconds
M - mute
0 key - Send the video back to its beginning.
1 key- Skip to 10%

2 key - Skip to 20%. You can also press 3,4,5 through to 9 keys for their respective percentages.
Space-Play/Pause
F-Fullscreen
Esc-Exit Fullscreen
+ - make caption font bigger
- - make caption font smaller
↑-Increase Volume
↓-Decrease Volume
←-Go back 5 Seconds
→-Go forward 5 Seconds

2. Basic

Autoplay - In case you do not want to play the suggested video after the one that you are watching currently, just disable the autoplay feature found towards the right corner of the page.

Speed - You can alter the speed of the video and play it faster or slower to your like. Just click on Setting on the time slider, go to Speed and then choose the speed that you prefer.

Subtitles - You can even enable subtitles for a video in YouTube. Head to settings on the time slider and then click on Subtitles and turn them on! Although, this feature is not available for some videos.

3. Loop a complete video or part of it:

Sometimes it just happens that you want to watch a movie over and over again or just keep watching a particular part of a movie or music video that you love so much. This is where the you tube repeater becomes handy. All you need to do is add the word repeater to the end of the YouTube URL. 
For example: Consider the YouTube URL: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=D6DFLNa6MBA
Just change it to: https://www.youtuberepeater.com/watch?v=D6DFLNa6MBA
This will redirect you to a page where you can loop the video

4. Bypass regional blocks and restrictions:

Don't worry, you are not the first to encounter this problem. Many people have and I'm not excluded. It's so annoying when you visit YouTube to watch that video that's been trending and you are told you cannot watch it coz it's unavailable in your country. Ouch, it hurts. Let's see how we fix it. To do this, replace watch with v and also remove the ?v=
An example is change  https://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=dD40FXFhuag
To: https://www.youtube.com/v/dD40FXFhuag

5. Skip to a specific time:

Sometimes you read comments and someone posts, "05:31 made me laugh so hard.. Lol" and you really want to skip to that time as soon as possible. It's no hard job. All you need to do is  add the time to the url in the format t=mmmsss. 
Look at this example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0pLbTXPHng
Now to jump to 5:31 in the video just simply add #t=05m31s to the link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0pLbTXPHng#t=01m23s

6. Download YouTube video without any installation:

You cannot stream always. Sometimes you wished you could just download the video and keep watching it offline. It is not impossible. It is more than possible. You can even do it without downloading any software(app). All you need to do is add ss in the YouTube URL just after the www.
For example, Consider this YouTube URL: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=eisKxhjBnZ0
Just change it to: https://www.ssyoutube.com/watch?v=eisKxhjBnZ0

7. Convert YouTube videos to mp3:

Peggo has been really useful to me over some months now and I think I should introduce it to you. It is a website that converts YouTube videos and SoundCloud tracks into mp3. Just copy the YouTube URL and paste it into the website and Voila!

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 8. Identify the music in a video:

Watching a video on YouTube and you're so much in love with the background music? Don't wait for someone to name it in the comment. Just copy YouTube URL and paste it into MooMa.sh.

9. Test the new YouTube design:

YouTube has introduced a new transparent control bar and scales to any screen size. To get it, go to Youtube.com/testtube, scroll to the button and click get the player. 

10. Watch videos on your TV:

Do you own a smart TV or chromecast? Why don't you watch YouTube on your TV by casting from your smartphone or via WiFi? To do this, open the YouTube on your mobile or game console, then go to Youtube.com/pair make sure you are signed in. Go to Settings>Pair Device on On your TV and select Pair Device, enter the code into youtube.com/pair and you are good to go.

11. Speed up video buffering:

Your Internet speed won't be at its peak 24/7 but it doesn't mean you shouldn't watch YouTube videos when your speed is down. Go to youtube.com/account_playback and select I have slow connection. Never play higher-quality video and you are so good to go.

12. Watch tutorials in slow motion:

Of what use is a tutorial if it's speed is like that of a rocket departing from Earth. Just slow it down on YouTube and get the best out of it. Click on the gear icon>Speed>Select .5 or .25 to play the video in slow motion.

13. Create a GIF:

There are times when we stumble upon a video which no matter how much we try we can’t resist watching again and again. It could be a music video, a funny prank or perhaps an awe-inspiring stunt scene from some movie. To repeat certain portion of the video or the complete video all you need to do is to add the word ‘repeater’ after ‘youtube’ in the URL.

For example: Consider this YouTube URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6DFLNa6MBA
Just change it to: https://www.youtuberepeater.com/watch?v=D6DFLNa6MBA

It shall redirect you to a page where you can loop the required portions of the video.

Note: Before downloading or converting a video, read the publishers policy. It may be illegal to do so sometimes. 

Those were some of the most important YouTube tricks. Will love to hear from you. 

Author : Tipsandgist360

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