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YouTube Center supports multiple languages. Your default language is automatically selected at default if it's available otherwise it will default to English. You can also choose to set YouTube Center to another language.
List of the YouTube Center translators
This option will make the settings appear in a dialog instead of a panel on the page.
This is still an experimental feature (it might replace the default settings) and therefore feedback would help a great deal in improving this.
Note: A refresh of the page is required for this option to take effect. Also if you're in an YouTube experiment, which makes the topbar fixed on your screen. This option will enabled.
This feature will center the YouTube layout to fix YouTube's dumb mistake by aligning everything to the left.
This YouTube Center feature is not needed in the new YouTube experimental layout.
YouTube is filled with ads and this feature will get rid of all the ads on the page even those that are in the YouTube player.
Flex width will make most pages on YouTube wider. It will make the pages have a width in a range of 1003 pixels to 1422 pixels.
SPF simply minimizes the bandwidth and the time it takes to load the next page when you click on a link on YouTube. SPF is an experimental YouTube feature, which YouTube Center can force to be enabled.
Note: Currently only working for YouTube videos. Does not work on feeds, search, channels and etc.
This is an option for the experimental layout. It will make the topbar static. This means that it wont stay at the top when you're scrolling.
This removes the YouTube title from the tab name when you are on YouTube.com.
This option let's you configure if you want to show the play icon in the title while you are playing a video. If you don't want this feature turned on, you can turn it off in the YouTube Center Settings.
This feature automatically pauses the video you're playing when you are playing another video, so that way you don't hear two videos playing at the same time, so it's very useful. You can turn it on or off in the YouTube Center settings.
This feature will mark the videos you've watched as watched. Normally YouTube had this feature, but they broke it themselves somehow (it seems like YouTube have fixed this).
It is possible to clear the watched videos from your cache by clicking on the button: "Clean Video History". Also on the subscriptions page if you've the option "Grid Subscriptions" enabled. It will be possible to add or remove videos from the watched video cache. This is done by simply clicking on the button at the top, right corner of the video thumbnail and a menu will appear with the option to remove or add videos.
This option will hide the videos you've watched.
This feature will add the country the author of the comment is from with text or a flag.
YouTube Center displays ISO-3166 Country Codes if the flags have been disabled.
The flags YouTube Center uses are from http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/flags/.
Note: Not every user's location is available!
The Ticker is the blue bar, which appears at the top of the screen sometimes. It will normally remind you that you have multiple accounts/channels and you can switch between them.
This option will make it possible to always hide it.
Import/Export Settings is a feature used to import or export your YouTube Center settings. This feature can be accessed by clicking on the "Import/Export Settings" button.
The first part of the Import/Export Settings feature is the import part. You can choose to drag and drop a valid YouTube Center Settings file and it will be imported. To finish the import all you have to do is click on the "Save & Reload" button. You can also choose to select your file by clicking on "Choose File" (the name of the button is different from browser to browser).
The text field below the import part is the raw data of your settings. It will by default contain your current settings, but will change if you are in the process of importing settings (where the last step to completely import them is to click on the button: "Save & Reload"). You can choose to edit the part yourself or copy paste the content of a "YouTube Center Settings File" to the field if the import part didn't work (older browsers do not support the import part).
The "Export As File" button will save your YouTube Center Settings as a file (the content of the file will be the text field). This will only work if your browser supports HTML5 (older browser will not support this).
This feature will reset all your settings in YouTube Center for you. When you click on the "Reset Settings" button a confirmation dialog will appear to make sure you want to erase all your YouTube Center settings data.
This will remove the endscreen from the player. The endscreen appears when a video has ended and it contains related videos.
By disabling this option it will prevent YouTube from switching to the share tab when the video ends.
This option will be replaced by "Switch To Tab At Like of Video" and "Switch To Tab At End of Video" in the next version of YouTube Center.
This option will switch the tabs when the video has been liked. It can either be set to none, which will not switch the tabs or it can be set to any of the other tabs.
This option will switch the tabs when the video has been ended. It can either be set to none, which will not switch the tabs or it can be set to any of the other tabs.
The guide mode feature gives you the option to have the guide to be opened or closed every time you go to a video (or any other page where the guide is available).
Auto Resolution will automatically choose your preferred video quality for the video you're watching. If the quality you have chosen doesn't exist for that video it will choose the quality closest to your preferred.
Annotations are those interactive boxes that popup in a video, which have been added by the uploader afterwards the video have been uploaded. The option will make it possible for the user to make the annotations be turned off by default.
Scroll to Player will scroll the page to the player so that the player will be at the top of the screen (there's a very little white space at the very top to make it feel more natural).
It's advised to turn this feature off when YouTube's new experimental layout is used as the top bar will still stay at the top.
Player Theme has two options either dark or light (default: dark). The light option will change the player to use light colors instead of the default dark colors. The dark option will make the player use dark colors as is default on YouTube.
Player Color will change the progress bar's color between red or white.
Dash Playback is a method on how a video should be buffered. If Dash Playback is enabled it will buffer the video in blocks. That means that every time you seek in the video it will have to rebuffer that block and it will not buffer the next block if you're not at the very end of the current block. If Dash Playback is turned off YouTube will load normally where you can pause the video and it will buffer to the end of the video and you can jump around in the video as much as you like.
YouTube's default option has Dash enabled, because it's buffering faster for people with a good internet connection. YouTube Center also have Dash Playback enabled by default.
Read more about Dash on Wikipedia
Auto Hide Bar feature gives you the ability to choose if you want to hide or not hide the controlbar or progressbar.
It will hide the controlbar and/or progressbar if the video is playing and you don't move you mouse over the player.
Table of information about the different options:
| Name | Explanation |
|---|---|
| None | Will not hide the controlbar or progressbar. |
| Both Progressbar & Controlbar | Will hide both the progressbar and controlbar (as seen in embed videos). |
| Only Progressbar | Only hides the progressbar as is default on YouTube. |
| Only Controlbar | Will hide the controlbar. |
Flash WMode is how the flash version of the YouTube player has to be drawn in your browser.
This table explains the difference in the different options for Flash WMode.
| Wmode | Benefits |
|---|---|
| window | Broadest accessibility support. |
| transparent | Transparency and alpha blending over HTML elements supported. HTML elements can overlap SWF content. Explicit layering control (all browsers). |
| opaque | HTML elements can overlap SWF content. Explicit layering control (all browsers). |
| direct | Best performance. Hardware accelerated presentation, including Stage Video and Stage 3D (all browsers). |
| gpu | Additional hardware acceleration on some Internet connected TVs and mobile devices. |
Remove Branding Banner/Background/Watermark are options to remove all the crap on VEVO videos.
Prevents the video from auto playing. It pauses the video at the start before it plays so that the video can buffer. Useful with Dash Playback turned off so that people with a slow internet connection can let it buffer.
Prevents the video from buffering the video until you click on the player.
Prevents playlist videos from auto playing.
Prevents playlist videos from auto buffering.
See also Prevent Auto Buffering.
Prevents the video from playing if it's in a non-focused tab (background tabs) until you start the video yourself.
Prevents the video from buffering if it's in a non-focused tab (background tabs) until you click on the player.
See also Prevent Auto Buffering.
Prevents the video from playing if it's in a non-focused tab (background tabs) and if it's a playlist until you start the video yourself.
See also Prevent Tab Auto Play.
Prevents the video from buffering if it's in a non-focused tab (background tabs) and if it's a playlist until you start the video yourself.
See also Prevent Tab Auto Buffering.
Overrides the default volume of the YouTube player. Can be disabled if desired so.
Will add an overlay to the page which fills the whole page. All content on the page will be behind the overlay except the player. This will make it easier to focus on the player.
There's an option to change the opacity of the overlay so that the content on the page can slightly be seen through it.
A color picker is included in the options to change the color of the overlay to a different color.
Makes it possible to comment, share, click on stuff while the lights are off.
Note: You will have to click on the light bulb again to turn the lights on again.
The "Fullscreen Top Player" is a mode, which can be entered by scrolling to the top of the page. It will make the player fill the whole window. To exit the mode can be done by scrolling down.
If this option is enabled it will activate the mode every time you visit a video.
Only when the video is playing will it be possible to enter the "Fullscreen Top Player" mode.
This option will force you to scroll up instead to exit the "Fullscreen Top Player" mode.
This option will enable the animations for when entering and exiting the "Fullscreen Top Player" mode.
This will hide the scrollbar on the page. This might cause the inability to exit the "Fullscreen Top Player" mode.
This will count as scrolling up when you've already scrolled to the top. It increases it when you scroll to the border of the top of the page (it will not increase the counter if it's scrolled more than the top border).
This is the amount of times you have to scroll upwards when you're at the top of the page before you enter the "Fullscreen Top Player" mode.
This is the amount of times you have to scroll down (might be up instead depending on the "Scroll Up To Exit Mode" option) when you're in the "Fullscreen Top Player" mode to exit the mode.
This is the amount of time in milliseconds the counter has not been increased. When that time has been reached it will reset the counter to 0.
When the mouse is hovering over a video link it will go through every thumbnail available for that specific video.
The shuffle feature will shuffle the thumbnails so that they will be in a randomized order. So when you're hovering over a thumbnail it will instead of following a chronological it will just jump around all the available thumbnails for that video.
The Delay tells how long you have to hover over the image before the thumbnail animation begins. The Delay is in milliseconds (1/1000 seconds).
The Interval is the time that goes before the next thumbnail will change to the next one. The Interval is in milliseconds (1/1000 seconds).
The Fallback Interval is for when YouTube Center can't find the many thumbnails. So it will revert to use another method, which only has three different thumbnails for each video. So the Fallback Interval is used so that another interval time can be set. The Fallback Interval is in milliseconds (1/1000 seconds).
This feature will add extra stuff to the video thumbnails on the page as a ratings and the highest quality for the video.
Each element which can be added to the thumbnail can be customized to be positioned differently. The "Quality" and "Rating Count" has the placement options:
- Top Left
- Top Right
- Bottom Left
- Bottom Right
- Top
- Bottom
- Left
- Right
- At Start of Page
- When Mouse is Over Thumbnail
The "Quality" will tell you what the max quality of the video is.
The "Rating Bar" is an almost replica of the rating bar under the player. Though the dislikes are red instead of grey.
The "Rating Count" will tell you the exact thumbs up and thumbs down a video has.
Placement contains the options to enable and disable the buttons added below the YouTube player. If you're on a YouTube video an option to move these buttons is also available.
To move the buttons added by YouTube Center and the one that are natively added by YouTube you first have to be on a video. Thereafter you have to toggle the "Move Elements" button by just clicking on it. This will then allow you to rearrange (drag and drop) the buttons below the player.
The resize feature of YouTube Center allows you to resize the player to what you desire. You can choose to make the width of the player to be relative your screen width or just set it to a single value.
On the YouTube player there are the two button, which will change the player size of the player by clicking on one of them. These two buttons are labeled (by YouTube Center) as "Small Resize Button" and "Large Resize Button". You can by changing the options Small Resize Button and Large Resize Button change what player size the player should be resized to by clicking on these buttons on the player.
The Default Player Size option is by default on "default". This means that when you load a video it will choose the player size on what you have option you have selected on Small Resize Button option and Large Resize Button option. If you don't want to depend on the two other options to choose your player size for you. You can choose to change it to a player size instead of "default". This will then resize the player to the size you chose every time you visit a YouTube video.
The "Small Resize Button" option is by default on the player size "Small" (YouTube's default). You can choose to change it to the other player sizes created in the Player Size Editor.
The "Large Resize Button" option is by default on the player size "Large" (YouTube's default). You can choose to change it to the other player sizes created in the Player Size Editor.
The Player Size Editor is the editor where you can create, delete and edit player sizes. In the header of the editor to the left is there a button: "Add Player Size". This will create a new empty player size, which you can then save or choose to discard which will remove it.
Below the "Add Player Size" button is there a list with all the current player sizes. If you hover over a item in the list it will be highlighted and to the very left an icon will appear. If you move your mouse to that icon you can then drag the player size up and down the list.
You can click on the player size and options for that player size will appear. You will be able to change the width and height. You can lock the aspect ratio by clicking on the chain. If you want a perfect 16:9 aspect ratio be sure to write 1920x1080 or 1280x720 in the width and height field before you click on the chain. After it has locked you can then change the width or height to whatever you like and it will calculate the best width or height based on 16:9.
If the large option is enabled the sidebar (the video list at the right) will be below the player and if it's disabled it will be beside the player.
The align option is used to align the player with the content (this is the default of YouTube) and if it's disabled it will detach itself from the content (as seen in 720p, 1080p, 70%, 80%, 90% and Fill).
The "Scroll To Player" option will every time you choose the player size it will scroll to the player.
The "Scroll To Player Button" option will add a button above the player and when clicked on it. It will scroll to the player (with no white space as in Scroll To Player).
YouTube Center offers the ability to download YouTube videos. A download button is added below the player and the download button is split up into two parts: downloading of preferred format and a menu of the available formats.
The first part of the download button will select your preferred video format and download it without you needing to find it in the download menu.
The download menu contains all the available formats for the YouTube video you're watching.
This option will help YouTube Center decide which quality you prefer for downloading. The quality is the resolution of the video (1080p+, 1080p, 720p, 480p, 360p and 240p).
This option will help YouTube Center decide which format you prefer for downloading videos. The format can either be MP4, WebM, FLV and 3GP.
When you're downloading a YouTube video. YouTube Center downloads as default your video through a hidden window, which will prevent the creation of a new window. If you choose to enable the option: "Download as links" it will not use the hidden window and just open a new window, which will then start the downloading.
This option allows you to specify if you want 3D video formats in your download menu. This is useful if you don't care about 3D videos and therefore don't want them to be visible in your download menu.
This option allows you to change the filename of the video you're downloading.
Read more about how to create your own custom filename.
If the filename of the video contains characters that makes it unable to download it, this option will remove all characters except for alphabetic and numeric characters.
MP3 Services are shortcuts to external services that will be added to your download menu for quick access. Currently YouTube Center can't natively download the audio of a video and therefore support these services.
The repeat feature in YouTube Center allows you to repeat a video you're watching. It will add a resize button below the player, which you can toggle to enable the repeat function.
This option makes the repeat function be activated every time you visit a video. So if you want every video to be repeated and you're too lazy to just click on the repeat button this option will do it for you.
This option allows you to hide the icon in the resize button.
YouTube Center has an update system, which will check if any new updates for YouTube Center are available.
This option will enable or disable YouTube Center's update checker. It is recommended to have this option enabled if there are no other update checker.
This option allows you to customize how often YouTube Center should check for updates. By default the options is on always, which will check for updates every time you go to YouTube.
This feature is mostly used if you don't have the update checker activated. It will check when you click on the "Check For New Updates" button for new updates.
This page contains the debug log. The debug log contains information about your current settings, which page you're on, logs and etc.
The debug log is mostly always needed when you're reporting bugs as it contains a lot of useful data in it. A good tip on obtaining the debug log successfully with the right information is to get it as soon as the bug has happened. If you found a bug and you go to another page and then fetch the debug log. The debug log will most likely contain no information about the bug that just happened. So always get the debug log right after the bug has appeared.
This page contains information about YouTube Center, the translators and useful sites.