Do you just login to YouTube
to search for and watch your favorite videos? Or maybe upload a new
video and share it with your friends? YouTube can do more than just
that. It has included some new features – some of them currently in the experimental stage – that can make your YouTube experience more exciting and certainly more fun.
Here’s a sneak peek of the 7 less-known exciting features of YouTube, available for free, brought together in a place they call the “TestTube”.
1. YouTube Slam
It is an experiment that was introduced by the Google Research team as a new way of video discovery, in order to find out the next viral sensationamong user-generated videos. Every day,the Google team puts up two videos head to head in each category – like Comedy, Cute, Music, Bizarre and Dance – and users get to vote for their choice.
They also get bonus points
if the video chosen by them wins the round. Users can then also
compete to earn a place in the leader boards in this fun and simple game
of voting. It also helps YouTube to popularize user-generated videos.
2. YouTube Leanback
You
guessed it right. With this feature, you can “lean back” on your couch
and end enjoy YouTube just like TV. What’s more, it even comes with an
Android app that converts your phone into a remote control so that you
get effortless viewing experience just like in your living room. The
Leanback feature divides the YouTube videos into various categories.
So
you just need to pick your interests and then just sit back and enjoy.
The interests are available over a wide range – comedy, entertainment,
news and more. It also includes a personal feed section based on your
preferences and settings.
3. Video Editor
YouTube
has also got an online movie maker like video editor in which users get
to edit their own uploaded videos. The features of the Video editor
include video joining, video trimming, introducing video transitions and much more.
4. Caption Editor
Make your YouTube videos more popular by adding closed captions to it on CaptionTube. CaptionTube provides an interactive interface and improved precision with a scalable timeline that lets you insert and edit captions more accurately. CaptionTube can also help you make subtitles for your videos.
5. HTML5 Video Player
This
feature uses the HTML 5 video player instead of the usual Adobe Flash
Player for playing YouTube videos. So if you have a browser that
supports HTML5, you can watch YouTube videos even if you don’t have the
Flash Player.
6. YouTube Music Discovery
Some of us just tune into YouTube just to listen to music from various artists. YouTube Music Discovery is meant just for them. Just put a song, an artist or an album in the search box and YouTube creates a Playlist just for you. Enjoy your favorite music and discover new songs with YouTube Music Discovery.
7. Feather
The
Feather project aims to provide YouTube video watch pages at the lowest
possible latency by limiting some of the features available to the
viewer and using some advanced web techniques to reduce the amount
number of bytes downloaded. This feature is mainly for the people with
slow internet connectivity or with limited data plans. However, this
feature is in beta and may not work for all videos.
The
TestTube section is currently still experimental under the Google
Research Team and they are urging more users for feedback. On the other
hand, these experimental features are more likely to attract new viewers
and popularise more user generated videos.
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