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"Preload Entire YouTube Videos By Disabling Dash Playback"

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http://lifehacker.com/preload-entire-youtube-videos-by-disabling-dash-playbac-1186454034?utm_campaign=socialflow_lifehacker_facebook&utm_source=lifehacker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

 

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First, you'll need to add YouTube Center to your browser of choice, either as an extension or as a user script. Once that's done, you'll notice a gear icon in the upper right corner of YouTube. From this dropdown menu, go to YouTube Center Settings > Player, and uncheck Dash Playback. Now, YouTube videos will be able to preload in their entirety, which is awesome if you're on a slow connection, or if you're jumping around from point to point.

 

Yay!

 

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Just an FYI for people having troubles installing YouTube Center, this is what I did. On the GitHub link under the Chrome and Opera section, I downloaded the Mirror and manually added it to Chrome in settings->extensions (drag and drop). I tried some other ways before this, and this is the way that worked for me.

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This is fantastic, I use magic actions for chrome and Firefox to help me do this, but it only seems to work 20% of the time

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Could someone help me? It won't let me add this as a browser extension in Chrome. :(

I don't even know how you do it in Chrome, could you tell me what you did?

 

EDIT: Never mind.

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I don't even know how you do it in Chrome, could you tell me what you did?

I got it. :) Okay, go to the settings at the top right, go to tools and then extensions. Once you've done that, find the file you downloaded (so the Youtube Center script) and just drag and drop it in the Extensions bit. Should install by itself. :) http://userscripts.org/topics/116639

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Could someone help me? It won't let me add this as a browser extension in Chrome. :(

 

On that LifeHack article, it said you had to enable "Developer Mode" in Chrome for it to work. Try that.

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I got it. :) Okay, go to the settings at the top right, go to tools and then extensions. Once you've done that, find the file you downloaded (so the Youtube Center script) and just drag and drop it in the Extensions bit. Should install by itself. :) http://userscripts.org/topics/116639

 

 

On that LifeHack article, it said you had to enable "Developer Mode" in Chrome for it to work. Try that.

Yeah I got it thanks.

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How do I install it on chrome

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Also for FF users, remember you have to install the GreaseMonkey add-on to install the script. Once done, it is very straight forward (click on like 2 buttons).

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I just tried it but it didn't work. It still loads a bit at a time. Is there an 'apply' or 'save' button to save the settings/changes I made?

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I just tried it but it didn't work. It still loads a bit at a time. Is there an 'apply' or 'save' button to save the settings/changes I made?

 Not sure for Chrome; but in FF you just refresh the page and it works. If you go back to the "Player" settings, is DASH enabled again?

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 Not sure for Chrome; but in FF you just refresh the page and it works. If you go back to the "Player" settings, is DASH enabled again?

No DASH is disabled. Also, for example I'm at 1:00 and I drag to 2:30, it will restart the video. Maybe I'll try FF.

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Oh thank GOD. Youtube buffering has been broken for so long  :angry:

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On that LifeHack article, it said you had to enable "Developer Mode" in Chrome for it to work. Try that.

I didn't have to...

>.>

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I didn't have to...

>.>

 

Heh - don't know then, perhaps it's only in certain situations or something....

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Just an FYI for people having troubles installing YouTube Center, this is what I did.

 

On the GitHub link under the Chrome and Opera section, I downloaded the Mirror and manually added it to Chrome in settings->extensions (drag and drop). I tried some other ways before this, and this is the way that worked for me. 

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Update: I'm on FF and I don't have the videos restarting problem however it still doesn't load the whole video. Correct my if I'm wrong

 

Never mind it works.

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Does this give you the ability to stop buffering like the "Stop Download" option Youtube had until they decided to limit buffering.

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Does this give you the ability to stop buffering like the "Stop Download" option Youtube had until they decided to limit buffering.

I dunno, but why would you want to stop buffering? 

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I remember good and well when Youtube stopped buffering entire videos... I always used mobile hotspots to watch Youtube videos when traveling, now LTE is everywhere so it isn't a problem and they decide to fix it... Oh well.

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Installed on Opera 15 without a problem, working as intended.

 

Kudos!

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I was using SmartVideo for Youtube before this because Youtube kept playing the videos at 144p(yes, 144p, it exists)/240p due to my (relatively) slow internet connection. Even then, it wasn't working all the time. 
This extension/script works perfectly. Thanks bro! YA DA MAN

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This is awesome! So glad you posted this, Youtube's stock loading is horrible.

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