Judging from the enthusiasm from HN toward this in general, it seems like I'm in the minority in that I hate this experience. I was born in '87, for reference. Channel flipping always frustrated me, and I haven't had TV hooked up in my house in well over a decade - the TV is for youtube/streaming media only.
Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels
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#392I'd echo the sentiment that this is amazing, and that a TV guide would be awesome. I'd also suggest maybe adding the channel names (like the comment you posted here) to the app itself (although i think it's cool when it's unnamed and you get the old-school feeling of channels just being numbers). Also, I'd love to have permalinks for the channels. Not for the individual videos themselves, but just a link that when sh…
If you are using windows, it allows you to switch sound to mono
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#393I've always wanted a recreation of 80s Saturday morning cartoons, you can choose one channel to watch and if you switch away to another channel, it's gone, just like this. You have three primary channels and two secondary or "local" channels (and maybe a PBS) to choose from. It's a 5½ hour block, to simulate starting at like 6am and going until 11:30am. You get a bunch of half-hour kid and pre-teen shows for a few hours, and then you get some more older teen-oriented shows (like Saved By the Bell), and a 1½ hour block of the cartoon variety-hour shows like The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show. CBS would always have some kind of wild-animal showcase. Throw in some toy commercials, School House Rock, the Time for Timer PSA ("A hanker for a hunk of cheese!"), and those bumpers that showed you how to make the "come back can" and how to whistle with an acorn top.
It's the delivery and the format that I'm nostalgic for, it doesn't need to be the vintage material. It would be cool to have some modern School House Rock and PSA and mini-craft projects.
Grab a big bowl, a box of cereal, and a carton of milk and just veg out in your pajamas on the couch on a weekend morning.
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#394The best part of this is the channel doesn't pause when you flip away from it. It is always "running" and if you flip away you will miss it. That builds in a FOMO trade-off which causes user to automatically/subconciously decide on channel they most want to watch, because they can't watch everything.
Similarly I find I sometimes enjoy listening to the radio more than Spotify because I don't feel forced to min/max my enjoyment. I have to listen to whatever is on.
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#395I can't believe how awesome this is. I've spent hours watching.
I'm not sure what's going on. Why is this so great?
The lack of toxic labeling, which is everywhere now?
Thank you.
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#396brilliant!
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#397It's so refreshing to know that you don't have to watch everything. Go through the content, once you find something that you enjoy, watch it. Not worrying about what else you have to "watch later".
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#398Earlier quoted context omitted.
Part of the issue with endless carousels of thumbnails now is that the thumbnails are almost invariable clickbait now. What will I actually get? I have no idea. Even YouTube channels I genuinely enjoy use thumbnails which are entirely different from the actual content. I suppose sensationalism has taken over.
You can't blame creators for playing the game. All they have is that thumbnail to market their content.
No, I don't blame them at all. I make the odd YouTube video and the choice not to use these thumbnails is essentially a choice to stay irrelevant. Not to say sensational thumb nails would help; I make boring videos. But even if they were meant to be more interesting, that choice would clearly be self-sabotaging.
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#399Very neat. I like the channel idea. There’s also https://random-video.com which shows one of 4.5 Billion YouTube videos randomly (or with a filter for view count, language, year).
Pretty fun to discover what’s out there, without being influenced by YouTubes algorithm. It’s based on the YT Archive project and some other sources, since YT sadly has no randomize function.
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#400Earlier 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…
That's super complicated lol. Why not use the browser extension or accessibility feature?
That's not super complicated.
I have carla running at all times and put all of my system audio through various loopback devices (browser, voice conferencing, and music/system) and then apply varying degrees of compression to them (no surprise sounds, hard limiting to hear quiet people, and bypass -- respectively).
Of course everything goes through an extra limiter at the end to avoid clipping.
I also send the voice conferencing input and output through RNNoise, so I can avoid emitting terrible sounds and avoid hearing them as well.
People also seem to like me better when I cut my mids a little bit, but additional research is required.
The reason for this is that I can change browsers (or games or voice apps) and they all think I'm just using a normal mic and headset, but it's actually like 10 LSP plugins and various routing.
Still doesn't feel that complicated when you do a little bit at a time.