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If I had to add another thing, please for the love of god do not reinvent the video player for the sake of re-inventing and don't cripple it for fun. I'm looki

by gryn 5y ago

If I had to add another thing, please for the love of god do not reinvent the video player for the sake of re-inventing and don't cripple it for fun. I'm looking at you Netflix, who until very recently didn't have playback speed settings but also use HTML5 videos so if you have an extension that allow you to change it but would work for a few seconds and then break the Netflix stream because they are doing something weird with it. It not a DRM Thing because it works just fine on prime video. Also like the post said prime video please regroup all of the seasons under a single jacket, telling me to continue watching TV show x at season 1 when I've already binged through to season 3 without clicking on their jackets is a sucky UX.

kitsunesoba 5y ago
On Apple TV, this is by far my largest gripe with streaming apps. Consistently, the worst apps on the platform are those that decide they need a bespoke player UI. YouTube is one of the worst. The stock video player is perfectly fine, please don’t screw with it excessively!
- marcellus23 5y ago
  The YouTube app on Apple TV is an excellent example of how to design a user interface designed specifically to frustrate. Favorite example: you have to press "Menu" to hide the player UI while a video is playing (the native one just requires a tap on the touchpad). It'll also auto-hide after a delay (a longer delay than the native video player, of course), and once it's hidden, pressing "Menu" will instead back you out of the video. So this leads to my favorite dance, which is: 1. Play a video 2. Notice the player UI isn't going away, and the YouTube player UI is super obnoxious and blocks half the screen, and I want to see the video 2. Press "Menu" to hide the player UI 3. Oops! right before I hit "Menu" the player UI auto-hid, and now YouTube took me back to Home (which, bafflingly, does not remember my video position, so if I just resume on the same video, it'll start at the beginning) 4. Now I have to navigate to Library > History (which _does_ remember my position) and find the video, just to keep watching from where I was. Countless other complaints of course. The saddest thing is it just isn't getting better -- I can't remember the last functional update, it must have been years ago.
cmeacham98 5y ago
It's a competitive advantage so this probably will never happen, but I wish Google would extract the YouTube player and publish it as an OSS library. As much as I hate the (ever changing) rest of the YouTube UI the player is the best I've used on the web by an insane margin.

by gryn 5y ago

kitsunesoba 5y ago

On Apple TV, this is by far my largest gripe with streaming apps. Consistently, the worst apps on the platform are those that decide they need a bespoke player UI. YouTube is one of the worst. The stock video player is perfectly fine, please don’t screw with it excessively!

marcellus23 5y ago
The YouTube app on Apple TV is an excellent example of how to design a user interface designed specifically to frustrate. Favorite example: you have to press "Menu" to hide the player UI while a video is playing (the native one just requires a tap on the touchpad). It'll also auto-hide after a delay (a longer delay than the native video player, of course), and once it's hidden, pressing "Menu" will instead back you out of the video. So this leads to my favorite dance, which is: 1. Play a video 2. Notice the player UI isn't going away, and the YouTube player UI is super obnoxious and blocks half the screen, and I want to see the video 2. Press "Menu" to hide the player UI 3. Oops! right before I hit "Menu" the player UI auto-hid, and now YouTube took me back to Home (which, bafflingly, does not remember my video position, so if I just resume on the same video, it'll start at the beginning) 4. Now I have to navigate to Library > History (which _does_ remember my position) and find the video, just to keep watching from where I was. Countless other complaints of course. The saddest thing is it just isn't getting better -- I can't remember the last functional update, it must have been years ago.

cmeacham98 5y ago

It's a competitive advantage so this probably will never happen, but I wish Google would extract the YouTube player and publish it as an OSS library. As much as I hate the (ever changing) rest of the YouTube UI the player is the best I've used on the web by an insane margin.