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YouTube Go: YouTube reimagined for the next generation of YouTube viewers

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Re: YouTube Go: YouTube reimagined for the next generation of YouTube viewers

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Post by tripzilch »

Nadya wrote: post #209
tripzilch wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It has better performance on my old laptop, especially when I hook it up to a 1080p screen. Seeking is more instant. It starts much quicker. It's more minimal in the interface (basically full-screen with a bunch of kbd shortcuts) but has all the features I need (including playback speed), and even some that are not in VLC--for instance, VLC has a key to advance 1 frame ('e', IIRC) and mpv can step both ways (with ','…

>mpv immediately exits when the video is finished playing which is actually nice sometimes, but also can be annoying if you wanted to rewind the last 10 seconds or something or if you seek forward too quickly (maybe mpv has a setting for this though). There is a setting for this called "After Playback". By default it is "close" but you can also "play next" (video in the folder, useful if shows are organized by folder…

I guessed as much, didn't look for it because until typing the above comment I never realised this was one of my minor annoyances with mpv :) Will change the setting in my config soon :)

Re: YouTube Go: YouTube reimagined for the next generation of YouTube viewers

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Post by Nadya »

tripzilch wrote: post #211
Nadya wrote: post #209

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>mpv immediately exits when the video is finished playing which is actually nice sometimes, but also can be annoying if you wanted to rewind the last 10 seconds or something or if you seek forward too quickly (maybe mpv has a setting for this though). There is a setting for this called "After Playback". By default it is "close" but you can also "play next" (video in the folder, useful if shows are organized by folder…

I guessed as much, didn't look for it because until typing the above comment I never realised this was one of my minor annoyances with mpv :) Will change the setting in my config soon :)

The naming was from a different media player. I also mixed up "Play Next" with a different media player unfortunately. I believe mpv requires you add the next items to the playlist. However if you intend to play the folder anyways, you should just call the subdirectory and mpv will treat it as a playlist.

But I found the relevant mpv config I was thinking of:

    --idle=
    Makes mpv wait idly instead of quitting when there is no file to play. Mostly useful in input
    mode, where mpv can be controlled through input commands.

Re: YouTube Go: YouTube reimagined for the next generation of YouTube viewers

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Post by andrewvijay »

dredmorbius wrote: post #178
andrewvijay wrote: post #81

Google's sudden push for India is kinda spooky.

Oddly enough, the billion-plus, relatively-well-educated, developing nation your CEO happens to have been born in might find itself a slightly corporate emphasis.

He's not my CEO though. I would be glad if it was that way. Being a googler.

Re: YouTube Go: YouTube reimagined for the next generation of YouTube viewers

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Post by rasz_pl »

yellowapple wrote: post #133
toomanybeersies wrote: post #128

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Wow, cheers for that. I was looking for a youtube video downloader a week or two back, but was really struggling to find one that wasn't spamware.

There's also a Greasemonkey userscript called "YouTube Center" ( https://github.com/YePpHa/YouTubeCenter/wiki ) that I've found to work pretty well for an in-browser tool.

it hasnt been updated in a while and is mostly broken now :(

"Download YouTube Videos as MP4" on the other hand has active dev, https://github.com/gantt/downloadyoutube

Re: YouTube Go: YouTube reimagined for the next generation of YouTube viewers

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Post by movedx »

ashark wrote: post #157
movedx wrote: post #131

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You just have to love that classic approach to web development, right? JavaScript is great for improving the user experience, but it's often vastly overused and just makes me scream for simpler times such as the classic web app.

I'm increasingly convinced that much better solutions to most of the problems Javascript and AJAX solve ("solve") would have been better frames and improved HTML forms.

Exactly! I use Bootstrap for the auto-scaling to the device, and AlpacaJS for the dynamically generated and adjustable forms... but that's it. That's all I want from JS: form management and validation, and responsive design (and I believe the latter is done in pure CSS anyway?)

Re: YouTube Go: YouTube reimagined for the next generation of YouTube viewers

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Post by movedx »

pjmlp wrote: post #163
movedx wrote: post #131

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You just have to love that classic approach to web development, right? JavaScript is great for improving the user experience, but it's often vastly overused and just makes me scream for simpler times such as the classic web app.

"Modern" web has made me embrace back native development and see the web as HTML/CSS only, as it should have stayed.

I totally agree.

JavaScript for dynamic forms and validation, and any responsive design functionality it gives me through the use of Bootstrap/SemanticUI... that's it.

Re: YouTube Go: YouTube reimagined for the next generation of YouTube viewers

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Post by daveloyall »

WalterBright wrote: post #54
daveloyall wrote: post #51

Grr... Is google seeking praise for slightly loosening the shackles? This "YouTube Go" MIGHT be a media player. It MIGHT operate on files. It MIGHT be possible to share a video via some mechanism other than bluetooth. The other day I was trying to convince to a user that she should want to own her content, rather than rent it... when I suddenly realized that he doesn't know what a file is. Moreover, he doesn't realiz…

It isn't just Google. There's no user concept of a file on the iPhone, either.

When I kvetch about this kind of thing, my wife likes to remind me: it's everything.

It's hard to find a can opener that will last a long time. Food is made as cheaply as possible. Movies are carefully crafted to maximize profit, not to tell stories. Advertisements lie.

If you deconstruct it all down as far as you can go, you land on money. Well, I do. She says its "human nature". Whatever that is.

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