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What's the community using instead of iTunes?
What's crappy about iTunes?
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#282Earlier quoted context omitted.
BitTorrent traffic can be encrypted. There is no legal attack vector when used.
> Anyone can still download the torrent themselves and see that you're an uploader. Not exactly an uploader, but a peer . All a downloader knows about his peers, is that they have pieces of that torrent.
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#284Earlier quoted context omitted.
BitTorrent traffic can be encrypted. There is no legal attack vector when used.
Encryption just makes it difficult for your ISP to automatically throttle your torrents. Anyone can still download the torrent themselves and see that you're an uploader.
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#285Excellent. It's always been weird having a mobile device run YouTube more responsively than an GBP1500 laptop because the latter had to run the Flash plugin.
Now only if Amazon/Netflix would drop Silverlight all would be right with the world.
"Here, if we give you 10 million USD for free, can you just get your devs to use this untested pile of DRM?"
Really.
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#286What I especially like about the HTML5 player is the ability to change the playback speed. It is extremely useful for watching lectures & talks.
Does any one know if there is a super easy way to also eliminate silent portions of the video? For example copying notes, changing blackboards, pauses in speech, erasing blackboards, etc? I feel like this could achieve similar results as 1.5x without as much strain, or could make 1.5 even faster. Bonus points for removing like, umm, uhh, etc
Actually, come to think of it, both are good ideas.
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#288Click to play now doesn't work in Chrome, anyone have a workaround or a known-working extensions for click-to-play for html5 youtube?
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Yeah, until the video recorder on your cell phone gets a little nicer.
It would have to get a lot nicer. I work in film and shooting an image of a TV or computer monitor is often a pain, even with high-end cameras, due to interference between the frame rates of the camera and display devices, as well as light intensity. For high quality results the typical workaround is to just throw up a grid pattern on the screen in question and composite in the desired image afterwards. Is it possibl…
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Oh my god I completely forgot about RealPlayer. Luckily there was an alternative, Real Alternative, that enabled you to play the content without having to install that ghastly RealPlayer. It seems like the community always finds a way around crappy software.
What's the community using instead of iTunes?