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Re: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

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Post by 4ggr0 »

throwing_away wrote: post #400
bananamerica wrote: post #378

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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…

i love your spirit and it's interesting to read how you handle your sound, but it's almost comical to see someone describe using 10 freaking plugins to handle sound as 'not super complicated' :D

Re: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

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Post by 9point6 »

I remember cobbling something like this together myself using a Kodi plugin called PseudoTV a number of years ago

Definitely a lot more usable from a browser for sure. I'd echo other comments that a TV guide style interface would be a fantastic addition that would take this from a "that's cool" to something I'd potentially regularly use.

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Post by DavidPiper »

gerdesj wrote: post #371
DavidPiper wrote: post #355

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As someone with minor but noticeable hearing issues, the reason it's so jarring is because our brain's audio processing center depends on both ears for understanding human speech. If you're deaf in one ear, your ability to hear and understand speech in particular goes down a lot, even if someone is talking on your good side. Put that person in a noisy crowd and it's game over.

>> Put that person in a noisy crowd and it's game over. That's when you discover you can lip read to a certain degree. There is way more to it than that. Speech is only one of the sets of cues we use when discoursing. Hand gestures, body posture, facial expressions and more are all involved too. I'm somewhat deaf in both ears, worse in one and always have been. I have had tinnitus since birth. My deafness does not af…

"If you're deaf in one ear, your ability to hear and understand speech in particular goes down a lot, even if someone is talking on your good side."

This is personal experience, but it is the personal experience of my specialist telling me. [1] is some less anecdotal information on the subject. My use of the term "game over" was specifically for audible speech interpretation.

Lip reading is indeed something I'll probably need to get better at into my mid-30s and beyond as things continue to degrade. My hearing loss is low-frequency-first (Meniere's Disease [2]).

[1] https://www.cochlear.com/au/en/home/diagnosis-and-treatment/...

[2] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/menieres-dise...

Re: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

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Post by inquirerGeneral »

rr808 wrote: post #405
slazaro wrote: post #72

I'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…

I had youtube TV for a while and the most annoying thing is that there were no channel numbers.

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