YouTube is introducing an experimental version of HTML 5 supported video player on YouTube. HTML5 is a new web standard that is gaining popularity rapidly and adds many new features to your web experience. Most notably for YouTube users, HTML5 includes support for video and audio playback. This means that users with an HTML5 compatible browser, and support for the proper audio and video codec’s can watch a video without needing to download a browser plugin. HTML 5 supported video player does not support videos with ads and full screen support.

As of now HTML 5 supported video player work only with Google Chrome ,Apple Safari (version 4+) and Microsoft Internet Explorer with Chrome Frame installed. It won’t work in Firefox,Even though Firefox supports HTML <video> feature but it does not support H.264 Codec. Even in the browsers that do support it, the HTML5 player is a pale copy of the Flash-based one. A lot of features are missing and some things aren’t as smooth as you’d expect.

Kevin Carle, a software engineer at YouTube Wrote,

To try it out, go to the HTML5 page via TestTube or visit this page and join the experiment. This will enable HTML5 video for your browser, provided that it’s one of the browsers mentioned above and fits in with the parameters we already referenced. (If you’ve opted in to other experiments, you may not get the HTML5 player.) You can also enable Feather watch (visit http://www.youtube.com/feather_beta) along with HTML5 video for an even simpler, faster YouTube experience.

This first time when YouTube has shared the data about most watched videos on YouTube. YouTube has also shared the data about most rising search keywords on YouTube for each month of 2009.

Most Watched YouTube videos (Global)

Susan Boyle – Singer – Britains Got Talent 2009 (With Lyrics) (120 + Million Views)

David After Dentist (37+ million views)

JK Wedding Entrance Dance (33+ million views)

New Moon Movie Trailer – Official (HD) (31+ million views)

Evian Roller Babies international version (27+ million views)

Most Watched music videos on YouTube (Global)

Pitbull – I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho) (Available on ULTRA MIX 2 NOW!) OFFICIAL VIDEO (82+ million views)

Miley Cyrus – The Climb – Official Music Video (HQ) (64+ million views)

MIley Cyrus – Party In The U.S.A. – Official Music Video (HD) (54+ million views)

I’m On A Boat (ft. T-Pain) – Album Version (48+ million views)

Keri Hilson "Knock You Down" (35+ million views)

Fastest rising search term for each moth.

Fastest Rising YouTube search terms by month (Global):

• January: inauguration
• February: christian bale
• March: the climb
• April: susan boyle
• May: pacquiao vs hatton
• June: michael jackson thriller
• July: michael jackson
• August: usain bolt
• September: kanye west
• October: paranormal activity
• November: bad romance
• December: tiger woods

Fastest Rising YouTube search terms by month (U.S.):

• January: obama inauguration
• February: on a boat
• March: watchmen
• April: susan boyle
• May: pacquiao
• June: michael jackson thriller
• July: wedding
• August: send it on
• September: kanye west
• October: paranormal activity
• November: adam lambert
• December: tiger woods

YouTube is running Microsoft Silverlight in CBS’s dedicated channel for March Madness. In the CBS YouTube Channel located here: http://www.youtube.com/marchmadness there’s an embedded Sliverlight player which appears to be just the same as the one running on the free March Madness on Demand site.

This is really amazing that Microsoft video site that msn video is not using Silverlight technology but Google is able to use Silverlight technology in YouTube

YouTube, is now offering Video download option to some of the YouTube Videos. For downloading videos from YouTube users have to find some other ways and other unofficial downloader’s to download video from YouTube. Currently YouTube video download option is available only to videos that are being uploaded by Government. There is no official  from YouTube or Google when this feature will be available 

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YouTube the world’s largest online video sharing website will start showing full length CBS shows from CBS corporation archive. Google is also talking to several other media companies to show their full length media content on YouTube. Currently users from around the globe share short clips on YouTube. Star Trek, The Young & The Restless, and Beverley Hills 90210 will now be available in full-length episodes of 20 minutes to 48 minutes.

CBS already offers full-length versions of many of its popular shows like CSI on its own website. I think this move from CBS to show full length video on YouTube is due to the fact that YouTube is the place where most of the internet users come to watch video online.

YouTube executives said

CBS would sell the advertisements around the shows. Both companies will share advertising revenue, but financial terms of the relationship were not disclosed. CBS could not immediately be reached for comment.

Hulu is another online video sharing website offers full length shows from News Corp’s Fox networks, NBC and CBS.

Source : YouTube starts running full-length CBS shows

YTFakeCreator is a latest tool to create fake Youtube Website to spread malware. Panda Security has  YTFakeCreator, that enables anyone to easily create a fake YouTube page that surreptitiously installs a Trojan, virus, or adware on a visitor’s computer. YTFakeCreator does not not spread malware links by it’s own, an attacker must distribute it via e-mail, FTP, IRC channels, peer-to-peer file-sharing networks or CD.

YTFakeCreator configuration menu

Then, two files are created; one of them belongs to the fake YouTube Website (Index.html) and the other to the error Website that is displayed once the malware has been downloaded (Error.html):

Fake YouTube websites created with this tool look like

warning message can be easily modified with the YTFakeCreator configuration menu

Users get a page asking for download a fake Youtube Plugin and if user select to download the Plugin the selected malware is downloaded to users computer and user get an Youtube error page

Youtube users now add Subtitles and Captions to their Videos on Youtube . Adding captions and Subtitles is optional but adding subtitle and captions to YouTube video make your videos available to as many people as possible.Captions and subtitles make videos accessible to a wider audience by allowing people who cannot otherwise understand the audio track to follow, especially those who are hard of hearing or speak other languages.

How do I add or edit captions/subtitles?

To add captions or subtitles to one of your videos, you’ll need to have files with the captions/subtitles in them. You can purchase software to let you create these files or ask other companies to do this for you, often for a small fee.At the moment, each file can only contain one caption/subtitle track in a single language. To add multiple language tracks to a single video, please upload each file separately for that video.

Once you have the files, log in to your YouTube account to upload them:

1. Click the "My Account" link in the upper right-hand corner of every page.
2. Click "My Videos". You will go to a page showing your uploaded videos.
3. Find the video to add captions/subtitles to, then click the Video name or thumbnail image.
4. Scroll down to the "Captions and Subtitles" section (bottom left).
5. Upload your captions/subtitles file!

To learn more about the information in each captions/subtitles file, read below.

We currently support a simple subtitle format that is compatible with the formats known as SubViewer (*.SUB) and SubRip (*.SRT). Although you can upload your captions/subtitles in any format, only supported formats will be displayed properly on the playback page.

The supported format consists of text divided into separate caption (or subtitle) segments in chronological order. Each caption must have three parts:

1. A timecode
2. The caption text
3. A blank line

Timecode: Specifies when the caption should be shown and for how long.

Time is measured from the start of the video in these units:

• HH – Hours, starting at 00
• MM – Minutes (00-59)
• SS – Seconds (00-59)
• FS – Fractional Seconds (0-999)

We support these timecode constructs:

• HH:MM:SS.FS,HH:MM:SS.FS – Caption display starts at the first time and stops at the second time. This is compatible with the SubViewer format.
• HH:MM:SS,FS –> HH:MM:SS,FS – Caption display starts at the first time and stops at the second time. For complete compatibility with the SubRip format, a "subtitle number" can also precede this timecode.
• HH:MM:SS.FS – Caption display starts at this time, but no stop time is defined. We’ll try to work out an appropriate stop time.

Caption text: One or more lines of text. This text must be UTF-8 encoded so that any language can be supported.

Blank line: A blank line is used to mark the end of each caption.

Examples:

• 0:01:23.000,0:01:25.000
  Text shown at 1 minute 23 seconds into the video, for 2 seconds
• 0:02:20.250,0:02:23.8
  Text shown at 2 min 20.25 sec, until 2 min 23.8 sec
• 0:03:14.159
  Text shown at 3 min 14.159 sec for an undefined length of time.

If your uploaded captions/subtitles are not available for online playback after a few hours, they may be in a format we don’t yet support or there may be something wrong with your encoding.

Visit these sites when your media player goes on strike.

YouTube Help Center: In case of troubleshooting it is too quick to recommend that you un-install and then re-install the Adobe Flash Player (going through instructional video).everyone think that it is the simpler and surest way to cure all type of minor malfunction/glitches, but here I would start with the simpler steps the site suggests, like restart your browser, accessing the page using another browser then clear your browser cache.

Here I recommend you to clear your browser cache it can cure a range of page loading woes. In Firefox, click Tools > Clear Private Data, check the “Cache” option and rest uncheck, and click the “Clear Private Data Now” button. In Internet Explorer, click Tools > Delete Browsing History, and click the “Delete files” button next to Temporary Internet Files

Adobe offers a Shockwave Player support FAQ site is specific to Windows XP and others that describe various error messages, along with info on troubleshooting topics.You’ll find the latest version of the Flash Player on the Adobe Download Center. The company’s Flash Support Center is intended for Flash developers.

Apple iTunes for Windows :Apple provides separate pages to troubleshoot iTune video on Windows Vista and windows XP/2000 . it contains “unexpected quits, freezes, and launch issues” on this page for Vista and this page for XP/2000

Apple QuickTime for Windows: If you see an animated QuickTime logo in bottom right corner on QuickTime Troubleshooting site it means Apple’s Media Player is installed and functioning.

Troubleshooting Windows Media Player 11: Microsoft’s has its own troubleshooting website for the media player .It contains separate section for Most Popular/Common Questions, Self Help Options, Technical Support Options, standard FAQ’s on playing DVD’s, ripping MP3’s and finding the installing codec’s.

In typical Microsoft fashion there is separate WMP FAQ page for Windows Vista and another troubleshooting page that focuses on problems when using the player in XP and for good measure a Knowledge-Base article is troubleshooting resources

Most of the company has its own support site that provide some pages to handle and cure the problems like installing QuickTime for Windows, to enable Flash content in QuickTime movies, to view streamed files behind a firewall, and diagnosing audio-playback problems (for iTunes also).

TiVo users will now watch YouTube Videos on their television set through their broadband TiVo boxes. TiVo users can only watch and bookmark YouTube video but they can’t download and save YouTube videos. TiVo does have partnerships with 60 online sites that offer content. Partnership between these two companies allows broadband-connected subscribers with TiVo Series3™ and TiVo HD DVRs, to access hundreds of millions of user generated videos hosted on YouTube.

Tara Maitra, Vice President and GM of Content Services at TiVo, said

With YouTube content now available on TiVo, on top of all the movies, music videos, songs and TV shows that are simply unavailable on cable and satellite, TiVo subscribers have more choice on their TV sets than any other TV viewers in the world,” said Tom Rogers, President and CEO of TiVo Inc

Hunter Walk, YouTube’s director of product management, Said

YouTube brings video where the audience is – across the Web and onto mobile devices, TVs and video games. The partnership with TiVo extends our ability to make YouTube accessible anywhere and lets people watch what they want, when they want it.

Soon, users will also be able to log into their YouTube accounts directly through the TV to access their videos, channels and playlists, making the experience even richer.

• How to browse YouTube on your TV
• YouTube and TiVo Website
• Press release : YOUTUBE™ ARRIVES TO THE BOOBTUBE THROUGH THE TIVO SERVICE TiVo Offers Subscribers More Ways to Discover Relevant and Personalized Content Directly from the TiVo Remote

Google once again tops the top web brands in United Stated of America. Google attracted more then 120 million users while Yahoo holds the second place with approximately 113 million users.List of top 10 brands is as follows

1. Google.
2. Yahoo.
3. MSN/Windows Live.
4. Microsoft.
5. AOL Media Network.
6. YouTube.
7. Fox Interactive Media.
8. Wikipedia.
9. eBay.
10. Apple