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Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels
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#432I really like how there are only 12 channels, and you don't get to choose what's on. The only way to make it even more like tv from a few decades ago would be if half of the channels were static.
For real accuracy of tv of a few decades ago they could add a 13th channel that takes content from Pornhub, but then adds a bunch of filters so you can barely see anything.
A Girls Gone Wild channel on channel 13 that only starts past 10pm.
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#433There is a bug when using qutebrowser (using arch linux) - when turning on the sound, the TV turns off (e.g. goes to black-and-white-noise-mode). When turning off the sound, the TV turns on again.
On google chrome, all is well. Just for FYI :) very cool project!
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#434Earlier quoted context omitted.
When a channel reaches the last video, list.json will be fetched to get an updated list of videos.
How are you making this list? The thing I surprisingly miss about tv is that what to watch was someone else's problem. YouTube overwhelms me with choices, TV was simple, I liked maybe 4-5 channels and (I later realized) I was implicitly trusting them to have something good on. If I was allowed to dream, I imagine a world where that specialization is brought back. People curating a feed, which was on average good.
The author was replying to everyone, even me, but didn’t respond to my question about how the list is made.
This makes me assume that it’s hand-made. If so, it’ll probably get 1 or 2 updates (if even that many) and then remain static as the creator loses interest. Wouldn’t be the first time.
EDIT: list has changed. Trying to track it, we'll see what happens. I really hope the author has some way to search Youtube for trending videos based on some query/tag, and re-generates a list once a day or something like that.
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#435The main benefit of TV was (and sometimes is, e.g. bbc if we ignore news) editioralized picking of programs. There was someone deciding if a video is worth watching (and in many cases acting in good faith).
Very useful in modern Youtube world.
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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.
Also in any other major OS afaik. It's a standard accessibility feature.
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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 c…
Yes, that does seem super complicated compared to the plug and play setup 99.9% of people are using.
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#438Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the real world you almost never hear something on one ear but not the other. Even if something is on your left, your right ear still hears it (differences in timing and volume inform your brain on the sound source location). Exception being if it's something really quiet right next to one ear, but that's relatively rare. So when things are mixed "improperly" (it's subjective), it's very distracting to me. I don't…
> Big productions tend to mix assuming you'll play on speakers (where it's fine to have something playing on just one channel/speaker, since both your ears will hear it), but when it mixes down to stereo and you listen on headphones, it's soooo common for them to pan something 100% to one channel when the source is supposed to be on that side. I find this genuinely baffling; I lived for nearly a decade as a bachelor…
Me neither, I also only use my headphones. I've only had to use mono mode on amateur youtube videos where one of the audio channels is just missing. It has never been an issue on big productions.
Perhaps they're using a weird media player?
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#439I love this idea, I kind of created something similar with skipvids.com subscriptions
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#440Why do people build video players with no volume control, it has to be one of the worst UX choices in common practice.