Am I the only one that realizes you can watch the RTMP stream directly and not have YouTube even know you exist? Or use a video downloader that supports streaming to file. Watch the video and screw their view count.
The easiest way? Use VLC to play the video via the URL for the video.
VLC takes the URL and uses it to determine the actual content stream for the related video. For full uploaded videos this will usually still play ads because it essentially opens a simple browser widget to get the stream. For ongoing livestream video streams however, it just grabs the RTMP stream directly which has no tracking and no ads as no browser widget is needed (RTMP has native codecs in VLC).
The more advanced way to stream straight is using something like youtube-dl which grabs all possible resource streams for the URL and lets you feed them into other programs. I use SVPtube to do this while injecting the video stream into Media Player Classic (modded with SVP to interpolate up to 144 FPS, if interested). This method doesn't even ping YouTube at all, meaning not only will the view count not go up but Google won't have a record of anything. The content server has an IP address requesting a data stream, that's it.
VLC lets Google know someone visited but prevents a view on the video. Stream grabbers hide everything. VLC is easy to use though as there is an 'Open Network Stream' option on the main menu to facilitate this.
If on mobile, tap the three dots by a thumbnail and the tap share / copy link. If on PC or Mac, just right-click a video entry and copy the link address. These ways get you a link without viewing the video first.
Am I the only one that realizes you can watch the RTMP stream directly and not have YouTube even know you exist? Or use a video downloader that supports streaming to file. Watch the video and screw their view count.
You probably are. Educate us.
The easiest way? Use VLC to play the video via the URL for the video.
VLC takes the URL and uses it to determine the actual content stream for the related video. For full uploaded videos this will usually still play ads because it essentially opens a simple browser widget to get the stream. For ongoing livestream video streams however, it just grabs the RTMP stream directly which has no tracking and no ads as no browser widget is needed (RTMP has native codecs in VLC).
The more advanced way to stream straight is using something like youtube-dl which grabs all possible resource streams for the URL and lets you feed them into other programs. I use SVPtube to do this while injecting the video stream into Media Player Classic (modded with SVP to interpolate up to 144 FPS, if interested). This method doesn't even ping YouTube at all, meaning not only will the view count not go up but Google won't have a record of anything. The content server has an IP address requesting a data stream, that's it.
VLC lets Google know someone visited but prevents a view on the video. Stream grabbers hide everything. VLC is easy to use though as there is an 'Open Network Stream' option on the main menu to facilitate this.
Where do you get URL?
If on mobile, tap the three dots by a thumbnail and the tap share / copy link. If on PC or Mac, just right-click a video entry and copy the link address. These ways get you a link without viewing the video first.
Wow, I'm impressed again with vlc, I only ever used it to watch movies off blu ray.