Top 15 Youtube Hacks

YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005 and owned by Google since late 2006, on which users can upload, view and share videos. since its inception, has been growing in popularity by leaps and bounds every year. From a relatively small startup, it grew to the ultimate destination on the web for watching videos and was finally acquired by Google.It wouldn’t be wrong to say that YouTube has caused a video revolution. The term ‘viral videos’ was almost unknown until YouTube came into existence. And like all popular sites, YouTube has also spawned upon an eco-system of third party tools, add-ons and apps that enhance the experience of using it.This article, which is HUGE by the way, aims to be a one-stop destination for all things YouTube. It covers numerous tricks, hacks, tools and apps for YouTube fans. The guide is long, detailed and informative. At least that is what I have attempted it to make. Hope you like it.

 Youtube Hack No.1 : Replay Youtube videos

Just enter the URL of the video clip into tubereplay.com and it will play over and over again, until you stop it.

Youtube Hack No.2 : Download Youtube videos without software

and press enter , after this will appear website where you’ll be able to download youtube video.

Youtube Hack No.3 : Embed Part Of A YouTube Video

 Just append ?rel=0&start=38 to skip first 38s of the video. In general you can modify the value after start= to the number of seconds you want to skip the video for.

 <iframe width=”420″ height=”315″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/JbNf0QMT3Eg?rel=0&start=38″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen ></iframe>

Youtube Hack No.4 : How To Watch Synchronized YouTube Videos

Just go to SynchTube and set up a “room” up to 50 other people with a chat window along the side so you can IM about what’s happening.

Youtube Hack No.5 : How To Edit Youtube Videos Online

TubeChop is online service that allows you to make your edited selection by sliding a bar along a timeline .

Youtube Hack No.6 : How To Improve Youtube Quality

To watch any video in higher quality on Youtube, just add this at the end of the link: &fmt=18 (stereo, 480 x 270 resolution) or &fmt=22(stereo, 1280 x 720 resolution) . Somewhat like this;

This is normal youtube links, you must add &fmt=18
After you’ve added &fmt=18 or &fmt=6, quality will improve

Youtube Hack No.7 : How To Disable Related Videos

Don’t want people to see other people’s content that may be related ,just add ‘?rel=0? to the end of the url part of the embed !
<iframe width=”420″ height=”315″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/JbNf0QMT3Eg?rel=0″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen ></iframe>

Youtube Hack No.8 : How To Add A Youtube Video To Your PowerPoint Presentation

If you work presentation in Powerpoint, then is very useful add videos to make presentation much interesting and to keep the attention of the audience. Let´s say you need to add video from youtube.com, for beginning , you should download video and convert in a format you can use in Powerpoint. There are many ways to do it, I personally use kickyoutube; the best way to download and convert video form youtube, at least by my opinion. Read more at my previous article Add A Youtube Video To Your PowerPoint Presentation.

Youtube Hack No.9 :How To Autoplay An Embedded Video

You can make the video play automatically by adding &autoplay=1 to the url part of the embed code
<iframe width=”420″ height=”315″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/JbNf0QMT3Eg?rel=0&autoplay=1″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen ></iframe>

Youtube Hack No.10 : How To Remix YouTube Videos Into A Seamless Mixtape

DragonTape is online service that allows you to search for the clips you want, drag and drop to set up the play order and then share the playlist with friends via an auto-generated URL, or embed it with the code provided.

Youtube Hack No.11 : How To Convert YouTube Videos To Mp3

video2mp3.net allows you to convert youtube videos to MP3 files .

Youtube Hack No.12 : How to set YouTube to always play HQ videos

Login in to your YouTube account and go here http://www.youtube.com/account#playback/quality

Youtube Hack No.13 : How To Watch YouTube Videos In Browser In A Sidebar

If you want to watch videos and wanna do it without leaving your current browser page, then there are browser add-ons available for that purpose.
Firefox add-on – YouPlayer
Gogole Chrome add-on – Yousearch 

Youtube Hack No.14 : How To Create Youtube Videos Timeline

Use TimeTube , it’s service that creates a YouTube video timeline based on keywords you enter.

Youtube Hack No.15: How to watch two YouTube videos side by side?

YouTube Doubler lets you do that.