Is there a windows program that can create on one desktop a youtube
playlist text file (of maybe a dozen or two dozen video urls) which can be copied as a file to another laptop to play in sequence in the firefox or chrome web browser (without needing to log into the youtube web site)?
Another way to ask that question is to ask how does Firefox play a pre-planned bunch of youtube videos in sequence?
Is there a windows program that can create on one desktop a youtube
playlist text file (of maybe a dozen or two dozen video urls) which can be copied as a file to another laptop to play in sequence in the firefox or chrome web browser (without needing to log into the youtube web site)?
Andy Burns wrote:
why not create a playlist within youtube
If it was easy to do it wouldn't need a hundred videos telling you how.
I tried all those first but none work without having you create an account. That is absurd if you need Google involved just to create a list of URLs.
Another way to ask that question is to ask how does Firefox play a
pre-planned bunch of youtube videos in sequence?
why not create a playlist within youtube, then you can send that URL to
any computer?
Don't create the playlist but download the videos on your PC
and store them on an USB stick. Then you can watch the videos
on your laptop without any advertising and you can use a real
video player (with fast forward, adjustment of brightness and
contrast, equalizer and more).
All Firefox has to do is play a series of given youtube URLs in sequence.[snip]
If there was a Windows youtube app that played a list of youtube URLs, that would work (which is why I had also added the freeware newsgroup to this).
If it was easy to do it wouldn't need a hundred videos telling you how.
I tried all those first but none work without having you create an account. >> That is absurd if you need Google involved just to create a list of URLs.
Is it too much hassle to create a throw-away google account *just* for
your playlists? If so, then maybe something other than youtube is
suited for you?
On Tue, 26 Dec 2023 19:13:41 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:My son has his own youtube videos he posts, family, kids etc. They all go to his 'account' in youtube.
If it was easy to do it wouldn't need a hundred videos telling you how. I tried all those first but none work withoutIs it too much hassle to create a throw-away google account *just* for your playlists? If so, then maybe something
having you create an account.
That is absurd if you need Google involved just to create a list of URLs. >>
other than youtube is suited for you?
All Firefox has to do is play a series of given youtube URLs in sequence.
I know some people who only make right turns when they're driving in the
city because left turns are a little harder to make than right turns.
It's the same that you're suggesting, since it's a little easier to log
into a Google server so that you can create a daily playlist on youtube.
But logging into Google should be unnecessary to create a daily playlist. Just like always turning right to go left is unnecessary to just turn left.
If there was a Windows youtube app that played a list of youtube URLs, that would work (which is why I had also added the freeware newsgroup to this).
Is there a Windows youtube app that will play a list of URLs in sequence?
If not, I'm stuck with doing it in Firefox reading from a url text file.
Unfortunately, I don't yet have a Windows command that plays the URLs in sequence using the Firefox web browser to read in the text file of URLs.
The closest I can find so far (which isn't the same) are these suggestions. https://superuser.com/questions/385207/how-to-open-a-list-of-urls-in-firefox-or-seamonkey
On Tue, 26 Dec 2023 11:17:55 +0100, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:Do you have one drive or google drive to share around the pc's?
Don't create the playlist but download the videos on your PC
and store them on an USB stick. Then you can watch the videos
on your laptop without any advertising and you can use a real
video player (with fast forward, adjustment of brightness and
contrast, equalizer and more).
That works and in fact is what I do currently which is I use a program
called youtube downloader (yt-dlp.exe,ffmpeg.exe,ffplay.exe,ffprobe.exe)
to download/rip/convert & then play videos in sequence with MPC-BE64.exe.
As you said, that requires either sharing to work or a USB stick
where I'm trying to be as efficient & universal so sharing is better.
But I can't get Windows sharing to work yet because, I think, you need a
lot of setup that Microsoft doesn't seem to think you need to do but you do because who has the same user name & password on every PC in the house? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18442846/how-to-access-shared-folder-without-giving-username-and-password
I don't. I wanted to set it up as "guest" without a password but the second computer (a laptop) doesn't even see the share on the first PC (a desktop).
So sharing isn't as simple as Microsoft makes it out to seem to be. https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/111783-share-files-folders-over-network-windows-10-a.html
What I want to do is create a daily playlist while I'm on the desktop downstairs which is just a text file filled with URLs to last the night.
Then I want to open the laptop on the night table and access that text playlist file over my local lan and have it play the videos in order.
Right now (see my other post) I have it playing one video only per tab.
And it only does that on the desktop because I can't yet get the laptop to even see the share (let alone the file) I made following instructions. https://www.geeksinphoenix.com/blog/post/2020/02/28/how-to-share-a-folder-on-a-private-network-in-windows-10
So I have a long way to go to get Firefox to play a list of videos in sequence from a text file that I put in they desktop share folder.
@echo off for /F "eol=c tokens=1" %%i in (%1) do "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" %%i
Which you run by issuing the Windows command "multiurl.bat urls.txt".
It should be easy. But it's not. But maybe it is. I don't know yet.
That's why I'm asking for help.
The two tasks are creating a command for Firefox to play a list of URLs in sequence & the second is getting that url text file from one PC to another.
That works and in fact is what I do currently which is I use a program called youtube downloader (yt-dlp.exe,ffmpeg.exe,ffplay.exe,ffprobe.exe)
to download/rip/convert & then play videos in sequence with MPC-BE64.exe.
As you said, that requires either sharing to work or a USB stick
where I'm trying to be as efficient & universal so sharing is better.
I don't. I wanted to set it up as "guest" without a password but the second computer (a laptop) doesn't even see the share on the first PC (a desktop).
What I want to do is create a daily playlist while I'm on the desktop downstairs which is just a text file filled with URLs to last the night.
Then I want to open the laptop on the night table and access that text playlist file over my local lan and have it play the videos in order.
If there was a Windows youtube app that played a list of youtube URLs, that >> would work (which is why I had also added the freeware newsgroup to this).
Have you tried the free VLC, which can play YouTube videos when handed a
URL?
There are 2 solutions there, one of which is this multiurl.bat batch file. @echo off
for /F "eol=c tokens=1" %%i in (%1) do "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" %%i
Which you run by issuing the Windows command "multiurl.bat urls.txt".
The other of which is this html file which works on all browsers
including Chrome and on all the operating systems so it's a more
universal solution.
You first create this "multiurl.html" file and then you open it in Firefox with file:///c:/share/multiurl.html (using the forward slases as shown). <!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Open Windows</title>
<script>
function openWindow(){
var x = document.getElementById('a').value.split('\n');
for (var i = 0; i < x.length; i++)
if (x[i].indexOf('.') > 0)
if (x[i].indexOf('://') < 0)
window.open('http://'+x[i]);
else
window.open(x[i]);
}
</script>
<style>
html, body
{
height : 99%;
width : 99%;
}
textarea
{
height : 80%;
width : 90%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<textarea id="a"></textarea>
<input type="button" value="Open Windows" onClick="openWindow()">
<input type="button" value="Clear" onClick="document.getElementById('a').value=''">
</body>
</html>
All Firefox has to do is play a series of given youtube URLs in sequence.
Is there a Windows youtube app that will play a list of URLs in sequence?
If not, I'm stuck with doing it in Firefox reading from a url text file.
On 2023-12-26, Patrick <patrick@oleary.com> wrote:
All Firefox has to do is play a series of given youtube URLs in sequence. >[snip]
If there was a Windows youtube app that played a list of youtube URLs, that >> would work (which is why I had also added the freeware newsgroup to this).
Have you tried the free VLC, which can play YouTube videos when handed a
URL?
On Tue, 26 Dec 2023 19:37:13 -0000 (UTC), Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com>
wrote:
On 2023-12-26, Patrick <patrick@oleary.com> wrote:
All Firefox has to do is play a series of given youtube URLs in sequence. >>[snip]Have you tried the free VLC, which can play YouTube videos when handed a >>URL?
If there was a Windows youtube app that played a list of youtube URLs, that >>> would work (which is why I had also added the freeware newsgroup to this). >>
I just looked at VLC, but I don't see where I can give it a YouTube
URL. Can you tell me?
Then I want to open the laptop on the night table and access that text playlist file over my local lan and have it play the videos in order.
But then you have to manually press the play button and switch to
full screen mode for every video.
All Firefox has to do is play a series of given youtube URLs in sequence.
Why is it up to firefox to provide youtube features, which google
already provide if you're signed-in?
Patrick <patrick@oleary.com> wrote:
There are 2 solutions there, one of which is this multiurl.bat batch file. >> @echo off
for /F "eol=c tokens=1" %%i in (%1) do "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" %%i
Which you run by issuing the Windows command "multiurl.bat urls.txt".
I don't see that will pend video playing until the current video ends playing. There is no sequence.
That opens a new window (or tab) for each entry in the input list.
Again, that does not open 1 window to play 1 video and pend the next
video playback until the current one completes.
You asked "to play in sequence". Opening multiple windows or tabs at
the same time with each concurrently playing a video is not playing them
"in sequence". To play in sequence means to start playing the 1st entry
in the list until the video ends, and then start playing the 2nd video
until it ends, and so on.
Seems you need to compile a list of URLs to the videos to put in a file,
and then feed that file to a local media player as its playlist. I see
you tried that with VLC, but incurred errors in VLC finding the video
stream source.
I just tried to copy some Youtube videos using jaksta Media Recorder.
It captures the video stream to record it instead of having to play it
in a web browser, or capture the screen or doc window in a web browser
(which is screen capturing which results in also recording artifacts,
like stalls, jitter, noise, ads, the mouse pointer moving across the
screen, and so on). It could not capture any Youtube videos.
When I visit, for example, https://youtu.be/uI_lssmBvyQ, and right click
to use "Copy video URL", this is the URL it gives. After captured using jaksta Media Recorder, and looking at the properties of the captured
video, it says the source for the video stream was an MP4 file at:
https://rr1---sn-vgqsknse.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?(commands)
Youtube doesn't let me use the source URL for the video stream, because Google doesn't want direct links. They want you to use their index
pointers (i.e., the URLs they give you). You don't get to use their
file. You get their pointer for streaming the file. The web browser,
and jaksta, connect to the streaming source, but through the redirection Google gives you.
For "in sequence" playback to work means the player has to pend loading subsequent videos until the current one completes. Seems you might need
an add-on in the web browser to let you have it read from a list of URLs
to play them in sequence, but that means installing the same add-on in
every web browser on the other computers where you want to view the
playlist.
If you don't want to use a web browser add-on, there are apps that will
let you specify a playlist, and play the URLs in the order you want. I suspect they use an entry in the URL list to open the web browser with
that URL as the web browser's argument, and wait for the video top stop playing before going to the next URL in its input list. I don't and
have not used any web browser add-ons to do sequential playback from a
list of URLs in a file, so I cannot recommend any. Same for using
external apps to read a file to load URLs sequentially in a web browser.
Why not add the URLs to a bookmark folder (to group them together). You
can export and import that bookmark folder. Then use the bookmark
folder to select a URL in whatever order you want to watch. If you use Firefox Sync, that bookmark folder should show up under Bookmarks under
your other instances of Firefox that sync to the same Mozilla account; however, since you expressed disgust at using a Google account to save a playlist to a Youtube account to access from other web browsers, you
probably don't want a Mozilla account, either. In that case, export and import the bookmarks folder. That'll work with the same web browser,
but you'll have a problem if exporting from Firefox to use in Chrome
although exporting in HTML might resolve that issue.
If you don't want to carry around a USB drive with the exported
bookmarks folder, you could upload it at one host to download at another host. OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, and so one can let you sync your cloud storage across computers, but you have to install their clients on
each computer (that doesn't already have them), plus, again, you'll need accounts there to use their file storage/sync service.
Is there a Windows youtube app that will play a list of URLs in sequence?
If not, I'm stuck with doing it in Firefox reading from a url text file.
You don't need to login to youtube to play a playlist, only to create
it.
Any windows app for youtube is going to be unofficial.
The closest I can find so far (which isn't the same) are these suggestions. >> https://superuser.com/questions/385207/how-to-open-a-list-of-urls-in-firefox-or-seamonkeyMy son has his own youtube videos he posts, family, kids etc. They all go to his 'account' in youtube.
If I search for his name in youtube, I get all his videos and youtube will just play them in order.
The two tasks are creating a command for Firefox to play a list of URLs in >> sequence & the second is getting that url text file from one PC to another.
Do you have one drive or google drive to share around the pc's?
It seems to work. Thank you for figuring out that there is a youtube player on Windows which will read in a url.txt file and sequentially play videos.
Never mind. A web search just found the answer to my question: You can
use the Media Open Network Stream feature and enter the video URL to
play it. You just enter a YouTube address like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfndS5SKUs4 and it will stream and
play the video for you. It also supports many other video sharing
websites.
Technically, I mentioned a player that is available on almost all non-proprietary platforms. I personally use it on Linux way more often than Windows. :-)
Glad it worked.
Is there a windows program that can create on one desktop a youtube
playlist text file (of maybe a dozen or two dozen video urls) which can be copied as a file to another laptop to play in sequence in the firefox or chrome web browser (without needing to log into the youtube web site)?
Another way to ask that question is to ask how does Firefox play a pre-planned bunch of youtube videos in sequence?
Another way to ask that question is to ask how does Firefox play a
pre-planned bunch of youtube videos in sequence?
You took 8 posts before you told us about your hardware.
You are asking too much of your laptop.
HP Stream 14
32GB eMMC memory = hard drive
CPU - Intel Celeron N4020
RAM - 4GB
The above laptop played Youtube videos via a browser, Firefox Portable
with the following results.
720p - CPU 100%. Played until mouse moved then stalled
480p - CPU 80-100% Memory 82%
This doesn't address your playlist problem, for which you seem to have
found a work around.
I only know the specs of the HP Stream because I bought one for my
grandson to use when he visits & was able to perform some tests.
You are asking too much of your laptop.
I did not realize the hardware was a problem until I used VLC, which is unable as far as I can find, to set the video quality in its own GUI.
Each night since I opened this topic discussion, I test a new switch.
Last night I tested the "&vq=small" switch which had only 1 failure.
Firefox also can't set the video quality. This is done by the code
on the Youtube website.
Each night since I opened this topic discussion, I test a new switch.
Last night I tested the "&vq=small" switch which had only 1 failure.
Even if you don't believe it, the much simpler way is to download
the videos on your PC and use VLC (or any other video player) to
watch the already downloaded videos on your laptop.
yt-dlp.exe -F https://youtu.be/Cz1paozgy4k
shows you all the available versions of the video:
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://youtu.be/Cz1paozgy4k
[youtube] Cz1paozgy4k: Downloading webpage
[youtube] Cz1paozgy4k: Downloading ios player API JSON
[youtube] Cz1paozgy4k: Downloading android player API JSON
[youtube] Cz1paozgy4k: Downloading m3u8 information
[info] Available formats for Cz1paozgy4k:
ID EXT RESOLUTION FPS CH FILESIZE TBR PROTO VCODEC VBR ACODEC ABR ASR MORE INFO
sb2 mhtml 48x27 1 mhtml images storyboard
sb1 mhtml 80x45 1 mhtml images storyboard
sb0 mhtml 160x90 1 mhtml images storyboard
233 mp4 audio only m3u8 audio only unknown Default
234 mp4 audio only m3u8 audio only unknown Default
139 m4a audio only 2 722.53KiB 49k https audio only mp4a.40.5 49k 22k low, m4a_dash
140 m4a audio only 2 1.87MiB 130k https audio only mp4a.40.2 130k 44k medium, m4a_dash
251 webm audio only 2 53.82KiB 4k https audio only opus 4k 48k medium, webm_dash
17 3gp 176x144 12 1 695.84KiB 47k https mp4v.20.3 mp4a.40.2 22k 144p
269 mp4 256x136 15 ~ 1.60MiB 108k m3u8 avc1.4D400B 108k video only
160 mp4 256x136 15 320.52KiB 22k https avc1.4D400B 22k video only 144p, mp4_dash
230 mp4 640x340 15 ~ 5.70MiB 386k m3u8 avc1.4D4016 386k video only
134 mp4 640x340 15 1.19MiB 83k https avc1.4D4016 83k video only 360p, mp4_dash
18 mp4 640x340 15 2 3.12MiB 211k https avc1.42001E mp4a.40.2 44k 360p
605 mp4 640x340 15 ~ 4.26MiB 288k m3u8 vp09.00.21.08 288k video only
22 mp4 1280x680 15 2 5.43MiB 368k https avc1.64001F mp4a.40.2 44k 720p
232 mp4 1280x680 15 ~ 13.06MiB 884k m3u8 avc1.64001F 884k video only
136 mp4 1280x680 15 3.45MiB 239k https avc1.64001F 239k video only 720p, mp4_dash
270 mp4 1920x1022 15 ~ 22.15MiB 1500k m3u8 avc1.640028 1500k video only
137 mp4 1920x1022 15 6.27MiB 434k https avc1.640028 434k video only 1080p, mp4_dash
And for example:
yt-dlp.exe -f 269 https://youtu.be/Cz1paozgy4k
downloads the video as 256x136 mp4 file, or
yt-dlp.exe -f 22 https://youtu.be/Cz1paozgy4k
downloads the video as 1280x680 mp4 file.\
And if you store the video on an USB stick connected to
your router, it is accessible from any computer in the local
network. There is no need to physical transfer the USB
stick to the laptop or to power on the PC to access the
video (stored on the PC) by the laptop.
I agree with your clarification that it's not Firefox, per se, which is setting the video quality - but the youtube code that runs inside Firefox.
But isn't that the same youtube code that is running inside VLC?
Assuming a base youtube url was fed to both Firefox and to VLC, why is
it that Firefox can set the video quality on the fly - but VLC can't do
that?
Also I don't know if the Android Seal video downloader can handle play lists. https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.junkfood.seal/
On Fri, 29 Dec 2023 09:46:24 +0000, wasbit wrote:
Another way to ask that question is to ask how does Firefox play a
pre-planned bunch of youtube videos in sequence?
You took 8 posts before you told us about your hardware.
I apologize. Two things I didn't know at the beginning was I was going to
use VLC and that VLC doesn't have a way inside the GUI to set the quality.
The hardware didn't stutter until I used VLC but that was because in
Firefox I could set the video quality such that it did not stutter.
You are asking too much of your laptop.
I did not realize the hardware was a problem until I used VLC, which is unable as far as I can find, to set the video quality in its own GUI.
Each night since I opened this topic discussion, I test a new switch.
Last night I tested the "&vq=small" switch which had only 1 failure.
HP Stream 14
32GB eMMC memory = hard drive
CPU - Intel Celeron N4020
RAM - 4GB
The above laptop played Youtube videos via a browser, Firefox Portable
with the following results.
I don't know if it matters but I run everything portable on the D: drive. That D: drive is a flash card as you can't put anything on the C: drive.
It's cumbersome when some programs default to the C: drive where most of
the time when they do that, I uninstall the program since C: is too small.
720p - CPU 100%. Played until mouse moved then stalled
480p - CPU 80-100% Memory 82%
Thank you for running that test, where I set the video quality usually to less than that most of the time (unless the video has a lot of text in it).
What it shows is that the HP Stream 14 (same as mine) is really no good.
But it's what I have to work with as it's the only laptop that I own.
This doesn't address your playlist problem, for which you seem to have
found a work around.
Thanks for running that test as it shows it's not just mine that stutters.
I like using VLC because it accepts a local text playlist of youtube urls which will sequentially stream all night (each appended with "&vq=small").
I only know the specs of the HP Stream because I bought one for my
grandson to use when he visits & was able to perform some tests.
Since I'm immobile, I don't use a laptop much so I fell for the tiny aspect ratio and light weight but I would never buy another HP Stream ever again.
If I could have gotten Firefox to sequentially stream the video URLs, I
would have preferred that because the video quality can be set in the GUI.
I also use a 16GB micro SDHC card in an SD adaptor as a D: drive - it's
what I had at the time. There is not really a suitable alternative.
However I had forgotten it's a class 4 which may or may not make a
difference to the test results.
Most programme installs will default to the C: drive, & although
annoying, most allow installing elsewhere. I've only ever had a few programmes, out of hundreds (currently around 300 installed) that had no option but to install on the C: drive & they were immediately
uninstalled & an alternative found.
This machine is basically a toy, bought for the grandson to keep him off
my PC/laptop. It cost 10 ($11) second hand with a valid Windows 10 installed. As he gets older we will probably reach the limitations of
the machine & get a better one.
I sympathize with you as the HP Stream 14 is about as basic as you can
get & as you are finding, have to be very patient just to complete
everyday tasks.
On Sat, 30 Dec 2023 10:23:01 +0000, wasbit wrote:
I also use a 16GB micro SDHC card in an SD adaptor as a D: drive - it's
what I had at the time. There is not really a suitable alternative.
However I had forgotten it's a class 4 which may or may not make a
difference to the test results.
I've had the HP Stream for a few years where I learned in the first week that you can't use it without adding an sd card which I got at that time.
At night I use the HP Stream to be my video player where I rarely look at
the screen so all I really need is the audio but I use the screen to navigate and set up the playlists to play overnight.
I've had the HP Stream for a few years where I learned in the first week
that you can't use it without adding an sd card which I got at that time.
I also use a 14" Netbook with 4 GB RAM / 32 GB eMMC with a SD card
as drive d:. It is running the whole day since more than 7 years
because it makes absolutely no noise, doesn't consume much power
and is sufficient for mail, news and web browsing.
But you should be
aware, that SD cards aren't designed as a drive replacement in a PC.
About every two years the SD card stops working because the spare
blocks are used up. It then switches to read-only mode. But you
still can copy the content to a new SD card on an other PC and save
the old one as read-only backup.
At night I use the HP Stream to be my video player where I rarely look at
I still don't understand your workflow. You use Firefox on your PC
to browse YouTube videos and copy&paste the URLs of interesting videos
to a text file for later use?
But why not install a Firefox add-on to download the videos.
All you have to do is, press the download button
and select the preferred resolution. That is much faster than to use copy&past for the URL. The download is done in the background and
you can immediately start searching other videos.
the screen so all I really need is the audio but I use the screen to navigate and set up the playlists to play overnight.
But if you only interested in the audio, why not just download
the audio? Saves plenty download time and storage space.
But if the downloads are music videos, why not use a internet
radio stream instead:
https://www.webradiostreams.nl/index.html https://www.webradiostreams.nl/streaming1.html https://www.webradiostreams.nl/streaming2.html https://www.webradiostreams.nl/streaming3.html https://www.webradiostreams.nl/streaming4.html https://www.webradiostreams.nl/streaming5.html
There must be a way to send firefox a url to stream and then to wait
for the firefox process to finish. Once it finishes, you send it
another url.
But you should be
aware, that SD cards aren't designed as a drive replacement in a PC.
About every two years the SD card stops working because the spare
blocks are used up. It then switches to read-only mode. But you
still can copy the content to a new SD card on an other PC and save
the old one as read-only backup.
I've had that laptop for a few years. How would I know if the sd card "blocks are used up"?
But downloading versus streaming is like driving versus flying somewhere.
VanguardLH wrote:
set ffpath="C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"
%ffpath% <url1>
%ffpath% <url2>
...
Firefox loads to the specified URL. When Firefox closes, the next
Firefox instance loads to the next specified URL.
Browsers don't generally quit when they've done loading a page ...
set ffpath="C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"
%ffpath% <url1>
%ffpath% <url2>
...
Firefox loads to the specified URL. When Firefox closes, the next
Firefox instance loads to the next specified URL.
On Sat, 30 Dec 2023 10:23:01 +0000, wasbit wrote:
I also use a 16GB micro SDHC card in an SD adaptor as a D: drive -
it's what I had at the time. There is not really a suitable
alternative. However I had forgotten it's a class 4 which may or may
not make a difference to the test results.
I've had the HP Stream for a few years where I learned in the first week
that you can't use it without adding an sd card which I got at that time.
I have that card in the port on the right which is nicely done as in some laptops the card sticks out but in the HP Stream it is only a slight bump.
Can I tell the class while it's in the computer?
Instead, I'll shut it down and pull it to read the writing on the card as I don't know how to get the class (or even what it would mean once I get it). Popping it out, it's half red & tan with SanDisk Extreme on the red half & "400GB Micro/SD/XC I on top of each other & V30 (3 inside a U) A2" on the
tan half. In back it has what looks like a 14-character serial number &
then "Made in Malaysia" but no other information about a "class" type.
Most programme installs will default to the C: drive, & although
annoying, most allow installing elsewhere. I've only ever had a few
programmes, out of hundreds (currently around 300 installed) that had
no option but to install on the C: drive & they were immediately
uninstalled & an alternative found.
The C: drive is 32GB (roughly around 30GB in reality) with only 3GB of free space after Windows is installed, which is why I usually don't put on programs (such as Docker) which don't allow you to put them on the D:
drive. Some of the Chrome-based browsers (like Epic) also do that so I
don't install them if I can't find the button to choose the D: drive.
Even though I don't install anything on the C: drive, there is still a lot
of things in the Program Files folder such as this from a "dir /b" command. C:\Program Files>dir /b
Common Files
CopyTrans HEIC for Windows
dotnet
Ghostgum
Hyper-V
Internet Explorer
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Update Health Tools
ModifiableWindowsApps
Motorola Mobility LLC
MSBuild
Npcap
NVIDIA Corporation
OpenSSL-Win64
Pale Moon
PCHealthCheck
Realtek
Reference Assemblies
RUXIM
Windows Defender
Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection
Windows Mail
Windows Multimedia Platform
Windows NT
Windows Photo Viewer
Windows Portable Devices
Windows Security
WindowsPowerShell
Wondershare
I don't even know what some of that is, such as ruxim or dotnet.
In the other program files directory seems to be mostly Windows utils.
C:\Program Files (x86)>dir /b
AV Media Player Morpher
AVAST Software
Common Files
CopyTrans HEIC for Windows
eM Client
Ghostgum
Internet Explorer
Microsoft
Microsoft Office
Microsoft SDKs
Microsoft Visual Studio
Microsoft Works
Microsoft.NET
Motorola
MSBuild
MSECache
MSXML 4.0
NVIDIA Corporation
Reference Assemblies
Spybot - Search & Destroy 2
Windows Defender
Windows Mail
Windows Multimedia Platform
Windows NT
Windows Photo Viewer
Windows Portable Devices
WindowsPowerShell
In the beginning, of course, I installed programs but other than VLC, I
can't remember the last time I needed to install a program (other than the HEIC stuff when I took the laptop on a trip and the pictures didn't load).
I'm always afraid of deleting anything that's there.
Do any of those above strike you as safely removable?
This machine is basically a toy, bought for the grandson to keep him
off my PC/laptop. It cost £10 ($11) second hand with a valid Windows
10 installed. As he gets older we will probably reach the limitations
of the machine & get a better one.
This one was about 75 dollars new plus I had to add the cost for the sd
card. I don't remember the price a few years ago but today it's £47.89. https://www.picstop.co.uk/micro-sdxc/sandisk-ultra-microsdxc-card-120mbs-class-10-uhs-i-400gb.html
I sympathize with you as the HP Stream 14 is about as basic as you can
get & as you are finding, have to be very patient just to complete
everyday tasks.
It's anemic. I wouldn't recommend it. If someone is buying a chromebook, I might recommend it over that (I've never used the chromebook though).
What it's good for is being really small so it travels easily. Since I
am no longer ambulatory, I sit mostly at my desktop.
At night I use the HP Stream to be my video player where I rarely look at
the screen so all I really need is the audio but I use the screen to
navigate and set up the playlists to play overnight.
Last night I tried the "&vq=medium" which seems to work the best because
it's supported by more videos than the "&vq=tiny" or "&vq=small" were.
What would have been perfect would have been a batch command for Firefox to stream a list of locally stored URLs in sequence (as it accepts quality settings in the GUI). Even though VLC doesn't seem to have quality settings in the GUI, it can play a list of URLs in sequence if the quality setting
is appended to each URL so that's working the best so far.
I never knew there was a youtube player on Windows so it's nice to know as I've been asked this question by my family and now I have a better answer.
Thank you for all your help & advices!
Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
VanguardLH wrote:
set ffpath="C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"
%ffpath% <url1>
%ffpath% <url2>
...
Firefox loads to the specified URL. When Firefox closes, the next
Firefox instance loads to the next specified URL.
Browsers don't generally quit when they've done loading a page ...
Why I said the user would have to start the video playback, and exit FF
when done watching the video. However, FF does not pend execution of
the batch script until it exits, and why I also mentioned a pause is
needed between loads (to wait until the user is done watching the
current instance before exiting, hitting a key for pause, and proceeding
to load the next FF instance).
The only thing that surprised me is you can't set the quality in VLC.
And that you can't tell Firefox to stream a bunch of URLs in sequence.
I launched Firefox from a shell window, and it seems to
disconnect from the parent. The parent is no longer the
shell window. Trace collected in Windows 10 with Process Explorer,
press ctrl-T for Tree View, then do Properties on the
parent task.
https://i.postimg.cc/FsxBfRY0/firefox-parent-PID.gif
This means it's not a good candidate for script control particularly.
Patrick wrote:
The only thing that surprised me is you can't set the quality in VLC.
And that you can't tell Firefox to stream a bunch of URLs in sequence.
Well, I just stumbled upon a video player which I didn't know before but which probably will meet all of your demands; it is QmPlay2: https://github.com/zaps166/QMPlay2?tab=readme-ov-file#youtube
Is use it on Linux, but it is also available for Windows. It supports streaming, playlists and video quality settings and is highly
configurable. Maybe give it a try?
-jw-
Well, I just stumbled upon a video player which I didn't know before but which probably will meet all of your demands; it is QmPlay2: https://github.com/zaps166/QMPlay2?tab=readme-ov-file#youtube
Is use it on Linux, but it is also available for Windows. It supports streaming, playlists and video quality settings and is highly
configurable. Maybe give it a try?
It's built on QT5 or QT6. That's how it can be cross-platform.
It uses yt-dlp and ffmpeg.
If it stops playing Youtube, then the yt-dlp files need to be updated.
I will copy those over to my laptop to see if/how they play overnight.
Thanks to Joerg Walther for the QMPlay2 suggestion, which will take as an >input the youtube URL and it downloads and plays the files in that list.
I know some people who only make right turns when they're driving in the[...]
city because left turns are a little harder to make than right turns.
It's the same that you're suggesting, since it's a little easier to log
into a Google server so that you can create a daily playlist on youtube.
But logging into Google should be unnecessary to create a daily playlist. Just like always turning right to go left is unnecessary to just turn left.
On Tue, 26 Dec 2023 13:29:27 -0600, Patrick <patrick@oleary.com>
wrote:
[...]
I know some people who only make right turns when they're driving in the[...]
city because left turns are a little harder to make than right turns.
It's the same that you're suggesting, since it's a little easier to log
into a Google server so that you can create a daily playlist on youtube.
But logging into Google should be unnecessary to create a daily playlist.
Just like always turning right to go left is unnecessary to just turn left.
Even if you are not logged in in YouTube, you can still use the
"Add to queue" chice in the 3-vertical-dots-menu on right side
of a video entry in YouTube search results or video listing.
Worth a try, I would say.
Note: the 3-vertical-dots-menu only show when you hover over an
entry.
If you change the settings (resolution, caption, ...) of the
first video you open, most of these will be applied to every
successive video.
I think that works best when you start playing the first video
and change settings before you build the queue.
Can that playlist be saved/exported for reuse on a later visit to the
Youtube web site? I think the OP wants a playlist to reuse later or on
a different computer, not something compiled at the time which is only
usable during the current Youtube visit.
Even if you are not logged in in YouTube, you can still use the
"Add to queue" chice in the 3-vertical-dots-menu on right side
of a video entry in YouTube search results or video listing.
Worth a try, I would say.
https://i.postimg.cc/FsxBfRY0/firefox-parent-PID.gif
This means it's not a good candidate for script control particularly.
And if you launch a second instance of firefox, it won't create a second parent firefox for the new window, it'll just add a new child to the
original parent, but after a few seconds that child dies, while the
window remains.
I noticed YTD Video Downloader 7.0.0.9 while looking for something else >https://www.ytddownloader.com/
I noticed YTD Video Downloader 7.0.0.9 while looking for something else >>https://www.ytddownloader.com/
Looking at the specs of this I am quite sure that this is a pirated
version of the open source programme yt-dlp: https://github.com/yt-dlp/
Why pirated: They are using an open source programme for their own
graphical user interface without ever mentioning the open source
whereabouts, which is mandatory. Do not waste money on their "pro"
version. I have yt-dlp installed on my Linux machine here and it's
working like a charm from the command line.
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