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Re:Netflix to block proxy access to content not available lo... by TeMPOraL on Thursday January 14, 2016 @05:45PM (#10905352)
> EDIT: I always like to remind people that VLC can open youtube videos natively. CTRL+V and paste in url. Not perfect control but nicer than youtube player.

THANK YOU <3.

I didn't know! I was aware that I could open video streams (the old-school kind) in VLC, but I never realized it can pull a stream from YouTube video link. I see now it works great, though the video quality option is not obviously available. It can be set here:

http://www.techverse.net/play-youtube-videos-vlc-media-playe...

From the page, under disadvantages of streaming YouTube through VLC:

  Disadvantage
     No annotations.
Like hell. It's totally an advantage. Annotations on YouTube are a total mess, and they're their worst invention, even worse than their comment section, infamous for low-quality content.

I absolutely hate streaming videos in the browser. It's a stupid idea. Everyone uses a different player, half of them can't handle rewinding or skipping forward, and all of them are total resource hogs. There are things that really shouldn't be done with web technologies. Like spreadsheets, or video players. They work best if made native.

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Re:Netflix to block proxy access to content not available lo... by pyre on Thursday January 14, 2016 @11:36PM (#10907232)
Annotations / subtitles have their uses. For example, watch this[1] and choose "English (Movie Titles)" as the subtitle and you can figure out which movies all of the clips come from.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1PCtIaM_GQ

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Re:Netflix to block proxy access to content not available lo... by rangibaby on Friday January 15, 2016 @02:37AM (#10907814)
That's quite clever. Most of them are "BUY THIS" or "MY OTHER VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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Re:Netflix to block proxy access to content not available lo... by henry_vonfire on Friday January 15, 2016 @04:19AM (#10908125)
> Like hell. It's totally an advantage. Annotations on YouTube are a total mess, and they're their worst invention, even worse than their comment section, infamous for low-quality content.

Ugh, I hate them. Specially when they aren't set to last a specific time and are there the whole video. I instantly deactivate them when I see them.

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