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Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels
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#382Think the website is getting the HN hug of death; just static for me on every channel, but reminded me of a story:
Recently my sister was on a vacation with her family, and my two nephews were upstairs watching TV. They came down "Mom - The TV is broken!", she goes upstairs - working fine. 10 mins later it repeats, and repeats again.
Finally, she catches when the TV "breaks" ... it's a commercial, haha.
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#384Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you have mpv+yt-dlp set up you can fix this with an audio filter to mix to mono. mpv --audio-channels=mono 'urlhere' Somewhat related, I've used --vf=lavfi="hflip" to fix videos which are annoyingly mirrored to avoid copyright. You could also bind these options to keys in mpv to use on the fly. Some videos will only mirror some parts of their footage. Another fun one I bind in input.conf ctrl+shift+r cycle_values…
What are these tools? That sounds super useful for the most annoying YouTube flaws I run into
If you're on Windows 10+ then there's a mono audio toggle in the Windows accessibility settings. I use it all the time to fix this exact issue.
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#385Also works on localhost, run these commands: `wget -r -np -k https://ytch.xyz ` - downloads the website recursively `wget https://ytch.xyz/list.json ` - download the list of what every channel plays and will play (I'm not sure if this ever really changes. The real website adds ?t= ) Then for instance run `python3 -m http.server` and visit localhost:8000 :)
Even better, host it on github pages - then you mirror the code too https://stevemk14ebr.github.io/YTCH/ . Author, how do generate the list
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#386Suddenly I see that tiktok and YouTube shorts and such are just new incarnation of chanel flipping mechanics. And I'm not sure if it's better all around.
Algorithm driven personalized YouTube videos playing from random moment with easy follow up with rewinding to see the whole thing or more from this creator or more like that would be awesome.
You can also be smart about where from start playing by using the hot moments information from YouTube.
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#387oooo I love being dropping in to content
I miss that aspect of the tv experience, something live streamers do still except that it’s just them playing a game, rambling or doing porn. This is far more diverse
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#388This is something I always wonder... Something that I really miss from TV on internet content (YouTube, movie streamings and so on) is turn it on and watching what's being transmitted without thinking about what I wanna see. Three reasons: 1. Picking something to watch takes time. Sometimes I only want to see something in the 15 minutes that I'm dining alone. My meal gets cold before I start the video 2. Choosing som…
How strange, I’m the complete opposite. I’d never go back to letting corporates dictate how I engage with content; I even avoid recommender algorithms for the same reason. Being able to choose is so valuable to me.
Exactly. I go out of my way to try to make sure that the content is consume is "pulled" and not "pushed" as much as possible. I'm happy to take genuine recommendations from actual people, but I don't care what companies want me to see or listen to, and I resent it when they limit my options to try to force my hand.
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#389Well done. My team built this at Disney six years ago when we were trying to solve content discovery problems. The problem with endless carousels of thumbnails is that it really doesn't draw you in. Sometimes you just need to drop people into content like it's channel surfing. Netflix tried something similar a few years ago, but in my opinion it missed a critical ingredient, which was dropping people into the middle…
I think the user intent matters. When I go to Netflix to choose what I want to watch the last thing I want is to be dropped into the middle of random content. I hate auto playing videos when I'm trying to decide if I even want to watch this.
On the other hand when I go to tiktok I get thrown into a random content at every finger flick and I'm delighted because that's exactly why I went there.
If Netflix had well personalized mini tiktok mode serving interesting scenes from the movies you can watch there it could do wonderfully.
Interesting movie scenes is entire genre of tiktok videos. Another movie related genre is narrated summaries of weird movies. This requires bit of work to prepare but still could do well.
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WHY is there not an "I'm feeling lucky" button for streaming services. Akin to "give me anything," though, I suspect the answer is the more time spent scrolling, the less data has to be streamed over the wire, so it's cheaper.
More likely it is the inverse: Selecting a random video at scale is the costly problem. You can certainly fake it as a workaround. For example, you'll notice that "I'm feeling lucky" on Google simply follows the first search result. Streaming services could take what is already computed as the first result on the "Home" page and use that, for example. But at that point why not just click on the first video? Unlike Go…
> More likely it is the inverse: Selecting a random video at scale is the costly problem.
if that feature existed it would never be a random video from all the available videos. It'd be a random-seeming video from a carefully curated selection of videos that youtube wants to push at certain users, and in some cases were paid to promote. Users wouldn't know and wouldn't care anyway because they pushed a button and got content without thinking.