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You watch videos here on YouTube, but do you know what every single button along the bottom does? Tech expert Dave Taylor offers up a narrated tour of every button and menu on the YouTube video player. Ready? Let's go!
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Have you ever checked out all the buttons on the YouTube playback video window? Let's check that out
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Dave Taylor here and I spend a lot of time on YouTube and in fact I'm on YouTube, but there
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are a lot of buttons on the YouTube video playback window that I think a lot of people don't realize
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In particular, I'll see people say, oh it's really low res and fuzzy and it's just like
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there's just a button you push to get better resolution. So what I want to do in this is give
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you a nice quick detailed tour of all the different buttons on the YouTube video playback window
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Ready? Let's jump into my computer. Here's one of my videos that I've paused it at hopefully
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what's a humorous moment, but notice along the bottom here there are a lot of different buttons
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Now this is pause play and that's an easy one and this one lets you step forward to different
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videos or if the video is chaptered it lets you actually go to the next chapter. This gives you
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volume control and you can also quick mute by pushing on it and then this is volume so you can
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make it loud or not so loud. This gives you the amount of time you've watched and the overall
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duration. Yes, this is a 16 minute video that I'm reviewing here and then if you have chapters
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it actually gives you chapter information and you might see it's down here that it's giving me
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different chapter information here and YouTube does that automatically which is nice. So I could
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actually go to that chapter view and I can say let's go to the specs and now you can see it's
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immediately jumped to 2 minutes 46 seconds so that's really helpful. Now here this one is you
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can turn off autoplay if you don't like the fact that when you get to the end of your video
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it immediately starts playing another one you can turn that feature off and once you've turned it
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off it's off for everything. So YouTube automatically generates closed captions which is great because
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if you don't want to listen to the video or you have some issues with hearing maybe you're in a
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super noisy environment then closed captions are your friend. And then one that's probably one of
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the most important is this little gear and you click on it and it gets you settings. So ambient
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mode lets the system automatically darken everything around the video makes it look a little better
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You can turn on annotations if the video creator has annotated it maybe after they published it
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they realized something was wrong. Here with subtitles you can actually get if there are
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multiple languages you can actually choose a different language of subtitles that's more for
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like a video from HBO or from a local news service or something. Playback speed if you're watching and
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you're like I really want to get through this but I want to catch everything you can say let's make
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it at 1.5 speed and obviously that speeds things up. I generally have things at normal speed
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just how my brain works. And then one of the most important is quality. So if you click on quality
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it shows you all the different resolutions of the video. Bigger numbers are better. So 1080p is your
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classic HD for a television and then if you get up to here 2160 is 4k resolution. Now you'll notice
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that here it's automatically given me HD resolution and that's fine for the size I'm
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viewing but if I was to push this out to a television then I might want to turn it up to
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even higher resolution which is done by simply choosing the higher resolution. Now in this view
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it doesn't look any different but notice this little tiny thing here now says 4k and then here
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you can generate a mini player so you can do other stuff while you're watching the video. This is sort
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of like picture in picture and then this one I like is that you can switch from the default
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YouTube view with all of this stuff on the side which is helpful with chapters but generally it
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tends to have ads or other videos to distract you. You can change that by clicking on this button
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that gets you into theater mode which I like. Now finally this doesn't always show up but this is
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the cast this is part of Chromecast so if I click on this you can see it gives me a list of available
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devices that I can just wirelessly send this video to and then I could watch it on my big 65 inch TV
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instead of on my computer. If I don't want to do that I can just close that window and then finally
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this will take us to full screen which if I do you will not see all of the video that's okay
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and that's mostly everything. Also will note that if you right click on a video there are some more
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things you can do here including that there are some pretty fun stats here and as they say stats
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for nerds this is a lot of very geeky stuff that probably most people won't want but I would say
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the two most important features here are that YouTube itself can adjust volume which is what
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you have on the left here and then that there's this settings that gives you the access to
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different resolutions or different video qualities and notice that YouTube also is giving you a
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thumbnail as you go and if you choose that then it moves usually pretty quickly and then if you
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push up you could actually I'm now holding the mouse down you can get to very specific images
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so now I can get here and then play and then pause and so now I can see I've stopped at a very
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specific spot. Anyway that's everything you need to know about YouTube and how to get the most out
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of their video playback tool. I hope this was helpful and I'll see you in my next video
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