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Re: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

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Post by shmeeed »

shiroiushi wrote: post #379
slazaro wrote: post #350

Earlier 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…

>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 Exactly, and this highlights the big difference between using headphones and using speakers. When you listen to some stereophonic music with one of the instruments panned completely to one side, through speakers that sound will only play from that side, however the sound wi…

Is it really possible that there's no driver that is capable of doing this in Windows? Did you look into this?

I wouldn't know because I consider all those effect libraries, mixers and presets ("Concert Hall" - who would ever want that?) that usually come with the audio chipset driver suite as bloatware and try to get rid of them, or at least never touch them - but it would surprise me if there weren't anything that affects the amount of stereo separation...?

Re: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

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Post by bambax »

bambax wrote: post #409
hadisafa wrote: post #2

Channel 1: Science and Technology Channel 2: Travel and Events Channel 3: Food Channel 4: Architecture Channel 5: Film and Animation Channel 6: Documentaries Channel 7: Comedy Channel 8: Music Channel 9: Autos and Vehicles Channel 10: News and Politics Channel 11: UFC Channel 12: Podcasts/Interviews/Talk Shows

Great. Can you elaborate a little on how channels are populated? Do you search YT for tags and order by most recent videos first? Or do you do some manual curation?

Going through your comments I see that you answered this elsewhere, and said that videos are handpicked [0]. Congrats for the dedication this implies!

So now my question is, how do you imagine this will work going forward? Do you plan on selecting more videos indefinitely, or are you working on some search system?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41248008

Re: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

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Post by jeffhuys »

eCa wrote: post #318
Kiro wrote: post #302

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> since a lot of channels are annoying to me using headphones, they pan the audio sources too hard left/right and it's super distracting I find this interesting. Are you oversensitive? I've never even considered that this could be an issue. Do you experience the same problem with other things like music and games?

Not the parent, but with similar view on panned audio. If it's music where it's done on purpose, no problem. But talking with audio in one ear? I'm out. Not sure why exactly, but it's very jarring. For me, it's one of the worst audio quality issues a video can have.

I totally agree, I will not watch a video with any issues like these.

However, I also hate knowing that I'm hearing mono audio where stereo could be used. 99% of the videos I watch don't have panning issues, so to just turn off ALL stereo seems like such overkill to me...

Re: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

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Post by mulhoon »

joeevans1000 wrote: post #395

I 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.

Indeed. Not being poisoned with clickbait thumbnails and short reels. What a relief.

Re: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

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Post by burnished »

louis-lau wrote: post #437
throwing_away wrote: post #400

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

So you got velcro shoes too I take it?

Re: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

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Post by Contortion »

ebri wrote: post #433

There 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!

Slightly similar bug in DuckDuckGo on Android, unmuting causes the video to buffer again but it then pauses itself and there's no way to unpause it.

Re: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

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Post by jagged-chisel »

mholm wrote: post #326
klaussilveira wrote: post #298

I'll never understood why Netflix, Hulu and others haven't done something similar to this. It's a much more natural way of "finding out" what you want to see. Create a bunch of channels based on existing tags or categories, have thing playing on a schedule, and allow me to zap through. Bonus points if you allow me to zap as efficiently as I was able to back when we had analog TVs and cable. I was the master zapper, z…

My guess would be that the primary users would keep it on as background noise in some room or another, and it would take a significant amount of data for comparatively little benefit.

How is the cost any different than “binging” a series kept on as background noise?

If this new feature would cost the streaming companies more money, they just need to tweak the business model or subscription pricing to cover it.

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