No, this is not about Internet censorship in countries like China or Pakistan where ISPs frequently block access to sites like YouTube following Government orders.

You could be staying in a country like US, UK or India but may not be able to watch every video on YouTube - that’s because the content owners have allowed access to that video only from certain countries or geographic regions.

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Flash Video (flv) has become the default video format on the web and almost every video sharing site uses FLV to stream videos online. And its not just the YouTube clones, even media properties like CNN have switched to Adobe Flash Video.

Other than viewing Flash videos in your browser, some of download FLV files locally to enjoy web videos offline.

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You may have spent countless hours on YouTube watching cats falling off the dinner tables but do you know the exact number of video clips that you have ever watched on YouTube ?

YouTube tracks statistics for all their videos but now they have decided to share some basic stats with their members.

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Mike Dean at O’Reilly shows how to create an engaging video for the large TV screen using your digital photographs and music files.
Suggestion 1: Use NTSC Safe for Television - “NTSC safe” is a slightly reduced color range (a.k.a. “color set” or “color space”) that looks good on TV sets. Non-NTSC-safe video looks [...]

Natali Del Conte has launched a new tech video podcast on CNET TV called Loaded.

Even a slight movement of the digital camera can blur your digital photographs or make your videos look amateur (like the picture on the right).

While tripods are effective in preventing camera shakes when taking pictures, they are really not portable and cost money.

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YouTube however supports uploading WMV, AVI, MOV, and MPG file formats as well as MPEG4. Using the Sothink SWF to Video converter utility, you can convert your SWF files into an AVI movie and upload it to YouTube.

Sites like YouTube, MySpace and Google Video host millions of video clips that you can either watch online or embed them in your web pages. And then there are “unofficial” tools to help you download YouTube movies to the hard drive.

You know them all so let’s look at a different set of YouTube tools that are incredibly useful and yet very simple.

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