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Re: YouTube video has its own URL in it

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Post by carusooneliner »

samstave wrote: post #59
carusooneliner wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Excellent, this explains it. The YouTube video you shared says the trick is to create a resumable upload using YouTube API. The steps involved : 1. create a resumable session (here we specify video length in bytes) 2. YouTube returns a session URI which contains the upload ID 3. create a video with the upload ID baked in (edit video to match length from step 1) 4. upload video to the session URI https://developers.go…

I have not been doing any edits of video for a long time... What are most people editing vids with these days?

The one I'm familiar with is ffmpeg, a free, programmatic tool for simple to advanced use cases: https://ffmpeg.org/

Re: YouTube video has its own URL in it

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Post by nullandvoid »

Lammy wrote: post #40
georgespencer wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reminds me of the brilliant New York Times crossword which "predicted" the winner of the US election in 1996: http://www.alaricstephen.com/main-featured/2017/7/3/the-clin...

This page seems to have zero text or image content unless I let SquareSpace run Javascript (and ostensibly track me).

Would your quality of life browsing the web not be infinitely better if you just span up a VM and sat behind a vpn on it?

Re: YouTube video has its own URL in it

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Post by sp332 »

raverbashing wrote: post #53

Ok now give me a text file (or some kind of image file) that contains its own md5/sha1/sha256 hash in the text (or in the image)

  It's a PDF, a ZIP, and an HTML page:
  If you drop it on itself in a browser,
  it can give you a PDF viewer, a video
  and a PNG explaining the whole file structure.
  All these files have the same MD5.
https://twitter.com/angealbertini/status/1111329484647616513

The explanation for how the MD5 trick is achieved is in the PDF, starting on page 21.

Edit: whoops, probably more relevant is this earlier issue, which has the MD5 printed on the cover. https://github.com/angea/pocorgtfo/blob/master/contents/issu... The relevant article in that issue starts on page 46.

Re: YouTube video has its own URL in it

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Post by mjevans »

It would be more useful if Google / Youtube's API allowed 'reserving a slot' which would create a video ID endpoint but not finalize the content. Accounts might have a per-account limit of some small number of floating slots which would also timeout after a day or two.

This wouldn't violate the write-once model since the submission wouldn't be completed, it'd just defer finalizing and publishing it for a little.

Re: YouTube video has its own URL in it

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Post by vl »

georgespencer wrote: post #32
triMichael wrote: post #23

Definitely not the same technique, but at one point I watched a Mario Maker puzzle level someone had uploaded that used part of its own level code as a clue. The trick was that only two characters of the level code were used, which is hexadecimal, so there are 256 combinations of those two characters, allowing the level creator to brute force re-uploading the level until getting the desired combination.

Reminds me of the brilliant New York Times crossword which "predicted" the winner of the US election in 1996: http://www.alaricstephen.com/main-featured/2017/7/3/the-clin...

This crossword is available in NYT Crossword app, I just loaded it!

I'm going to try to solve it both ways. :)

Re: YouTube video has its own URL in it

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Post by MichaelApproved »

mjevans wrote: post #65

It would be more useful if Google / Youtube's API allowed 'reserving a slot' which would create a video ID endpoint but not finalize the content. Accounts might have a per-account limit of some small number of floating slots which would also timeout after a day or two. This wouldn't violate the write-once model since the submission wouldn't be completed, it'd just defer finalizing and publishing it for a little.

More useful for what application? Other than a novelty, why would anyone need a reserved spot?
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