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Re: Show HN: Hyperlax.tv – a real-time feed of Instagram's latest Hyperlapse videos

#11

Post by tbird24 »

0x0 wrote: post #10

Pretty cool. Had a tough time getting it to work in Chrome with "right-click-to-play-flash", but finally got it running by whitelisting your domain. Just clicking the "run all plugins this time" didn't work. Edit: The light-bulb icon didn't make much sense at first (fullscreen mode), looks like it's for toggling the sidebar in non-fullscreen-mode only. Maybe hide it in fullscreen?

flash? There should be no flash on the site, it's an HTML5 video. Very strange..., never heard of this issue before. If you can provide more details that'd be great, but no worries if not.

Light bulb actually = "dark mode", it hides everything else on the page. I intentionally left it ambiguous to see if people would curiously click on it :)

Thanks for checking it out!

Re: Show HN: Hyperlax.tv – a real-time feed of Instagram's latest Hyperlapse videos

#12

Post by pki »

tbird24 wrote: post #11
0x0 wrote: post #10

Pretty cool. Had a tough time getting it to work in Chrome with "right-click-to-play-flash", but finally got it running by whitelisting your domain. Just clicking the "run all plugins this time" didn't work. Edit: The light-bulb icon didn't make much sense at first (fullscreen mode), looks like it's for toggling the sidebar in non-fullscreen-mode only. Maybe hide it in fullscreen?

flash? There should be no flash on the site, it's an HTML5 video. Very strange..., never heard of this issue before. If you can provide more details that'd be great, but no worries if not. Light bulb actually = "dark mode", it hides everything else on the page. I intentionally left it ambiguous to see if people would curiously click on it :) Thanks for checking it out!

i think soundcloud requires flash for "anti piracy purposes", the page doesn't actually show the let's go button until you load flash.

Re: Show HN: Hyperlax.tv – a real-time feed of Instagram's latest Hyperlapse videos

#13

Post by 0x0 »

tbird24 wrote: post #11
0x0 wrote: post #10

Pretty cool. Had a tough time getting it to work in Chrome with "right-click-to-play-flash", but finally got it running by whitelisting your domain. Just clicking the "run all plugins this time" didn't work. Edit: The light-bulb icon didn't make much sense at first (fullscreen mode), looks like it's for toggling the sidebar in non-fullscreen-mode only. Maybe hide it in fullscreen?

flash? There should be no flash on the site, it's an HTML5 video. Very strange..., never heard of this issue before. If you can provide more details that'd be great, but no worries if not. Light bulb actually = "dark mode", it hides everything else on the page. I intentionally left it ambiguous to see if people would curiously click on it :) Thanks for checking it out!

The webpage loads at least "http://connect.soundcloud.com/soundmanager2/soundmanager2_fl... in chrome osx, and it seems that with right-click-to-play-flash this prevents the "let's go" button from appearing, even after clicking "run all plugins this time".

Re: Show HN: Hyperlax.tv – a real-time feed of Instagram's latest Hyperlapse videos

#14

Post by tbird24 »

0x0 wrote: post #13
tbird24 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

flash? There should be no flash on the site, it's an HTML5 video. Very strange..., never heard of this issue before. If you can provide more details that'd be great, but no worries if not. Light bulb actually = "dark mode", it hides everything else on the page. I intentionally left it ambiguous to see if people would curiously click on it :) Thanks for checking it out!

The webpage loads at least " http://connect.soundcloud.com/soundmanager2/soundmanager2_fl... in chrome osx, and it seems that with right-click-to-play-flash this prevents the "let's go" button from appearing, even after clicking "run all plugins this time".

Hhmm, thanks a ton for that info. Not sure yet if there's anything I can do about this, but I will definitely look into it.

Re: Show HN: Hyperlax.tv – a real-time feed of Instagram's latest Hyperlapse videos

#16

Post by pmontra »

tbird24 wrote: post #11
0x0 wrote: post #10

Pretty cool. Had a tough time getting it to work in Chrome with "right-click-to-play-flash", but finally got it running by whitelisting your domain. Just clicking the "run all plugins this time" didn't work. Edit: The light-bulb icon didn't make much sense at first (fullscreen mode), looks like it's for toggling the sidebar in non-fullscreen-mode only. Maybe hide it in fullscreen?

flash? There should be no flash on the site, it's an HTML5 video. Very strange..., never heard of this issue before. If you can provide more details that'd be great, but no worries if not. Light bulb actually = "dark mode", it hides everything else on the page. I intentionally left it ambiguous to see if people would curiously click on it :) Thanks for checking it out!

The audio is flash for me too http://connect.soundcloud.com/soundmanager2/soundmanager2_fl... (Firefox Linux)

The funny thing is that the video is mp4 but on Firefox with NoScript it shows the same kind of placeholder as Flash does (when allowing instagram.com but not cdninstagram.com). My first reaction was "wow, Flash?!" And I missed the flash in the audio player.

Re: Show HN: Hyperlax.tv – a real-time feed of Instagram's latest Hyperlapse videos

#17

Post by e12e »

Nice project! Was actually hoping for something a little different; I've thought about having 4k streams with (local) ambient audio from around the world for use as virtual "windows". Just hang a 4k tv on a wall, and play a location/timezone that suits your mood... (Perhaps with a 24h buffer, so that one could match relative sun height/light to local time if one wants to...).

Would be interesting to see an accompanying technical write-up (choice of technologies, frameworks, rationale -- what was easy, what was hard etc).

Nice use-case for soundcloud, btw.

Re: Show HN: Hyperlax.tv – a real-time feed of Instagram's latest Hyperlapse videos

#18

Post by tbird24 »

e12e wrote: post #17

Nice project! Was actually hoping for something a little different; I've thought about having 4k streams with (local) ambient audio from around the world for use as virtual "windows". Just hang a 4k tv on a wall, and play a location/timezone that suits your mood... (Perhaps with a 24h buffer, so that one could match relative sun height/light to local time if one wants to...). Would be interesting to see an accompanyi…

You and I are on the same page, I love your idea too. This is my very first project, I'm entirely new to coding, but hopefully eventually I can extend Hyperlax to what you're talking about. Appreciate you checking it out!

Re: Show HN: Hyperlax.tv – a real-time feed of Instagram's latest Hyperlapse videos

#19

Post by tbird24 »

janfoeh wrote: post #15

Very nice! A minor niggle: the map in the sidebar doesn't react when the window is being resized. Edit: also, the map seems to get stuck: http://i.imgur.com/YOVzJwz.jpg

Gah! You are correct about the map not resizing. Has to do with the library I used, called Datamaps. I could listen for window resize events, but for the MVP I figured it wasn't worth it. Thanks for pointing it out though, I'll get to this.

What did you to do get that map stuck in your screenshot? Never seen that before.

Re: Show HN: Hyperlax.tv – a real-time feed of Instagram's latest Hyperlapse videos

#20

Post by braaap »

tbird24 wrote: post #2

Really excited to share a personal project I've been working on here. If you check it out, I'd love to know what you think. Enjoy a peek into the lives of others, from locations around the world. Hyperlax is meant to be a bit of an escape, a bit voyueristic, a bit relaxing. I think it's mesmerising. Maybe you will too!

I was transfixed. Really, really good. The music really makes it for me. It is interesting to try and guess where the mystery locations really are. Sometimes this information is included in the hashtags. I got a few right! :)
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