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Show HN: SubtleTV – A trending video aggregator

4 points by avisud 12y ago

avisud 12y ago
- SubtleTV plays trending videos from Reddit and other sites in a continuous stream. Users can see what’s popular across subreddits or within specific topics. - SubtleTV is designed to make it easy to find related content. Users can see videos other users recommend, and easily watch more from that subreddit or author without interrupting your viewing experience. This has been a project of mine for a while now. I'd love to hear feedback about the UI and features from fresh eyes. Thanks in advance!
- tux 12y ago
  What do you use to make this interface ?
  - avisud 12y ago
    I do my design prototyping in Fireworks.
- walterbell 12y ago
  Looks promising, but rendered slowly on FF36 and video could not be played on iOS8. Is the idea that videos would play automatically and you could skip them like changing channels? Nice concept.
  - avisud 12y ago
    Thank you for letting me know. Was it not letting you play anything at all? Which device? Yes that's exactly the idea. You can also watch specific topics.
    - walterbell 12y ago
      It originally had a play button, which disappeared when pressed, but no video appeared. Just tried again and it seems to be working, iOS8 iPad. When the share icon is pressed, the bottom bar flashes, but no other options appear. I assume this is a Javascript-controlled HTML5 player driven by your playlist API, so all content comes from YouTube and doesn't impose any streaming cost on you? It looks really good! You should create somewhere for users to comment on the UX, and link that from the UI. This may find unexpected and interesting applications, e.g. custom channels.
      - avisud 12y ago
        We currently have a feedback form to submit feedback and haven't gotten any yet through the form. We also have a dedicated subreddit at reddit.com/r/SubtleTV. Glad it's working now. iOS can be a bit tricky due to restrictions but we're working on improving compatibility as much as possible. Intended behavior for iOS is to open the native player and then let you skip to the next video from the native player. Once we have our iOS app it will be a lot smoother. Yes your assumptions are correct. We're streaming from Youtube, Dailymotion, and Vimeo using our custom player and our API. The suggestion about custom channels is a good one, currently you can watch specific topics by doing a search.
- justfalcon 12y ago
  Video won't play at all on Safari 8.0.4, it gets caught up loading HTML5 player. Works fine on Chrome though. Are all the video files hosted through YouTube? How would you handle pulling videos from two sources (YouTube + 2nd source)?
  - avisud 12y ago
    So it starts to load the html player but nothing plays? The videos are from either Youtube, Vimeo, or Dailymotion.
    - justfalcon 12y ago
      It won't play at all. I'm using click to flash safari extension, and generally when there is any issue with the HTML5 player I'll right click and enable flash, but right click is disabled. While the UI is fine for mobile/touch, it's not really optimized for desktop use. It's an interesting idea though, do you have any plans for expansion on this?
tux 12y ago
WOW I wish all streaming tv would be as easy as this. Really like the interface of the site. Very easy to navigate. Thanks!
- avisud 12y ago
  Great to hear. I got tired of searching for good content and using interfaces that weren't couch friendly.
  - tux 12y ago
    Please add ability to download videos or at least link to original videos. Also ability to have all the controls visible at all times. Can you release this website ui as open-source ?
    - avisud 12y ago
      Original videos are linked via the info panel. Click on the title of the video, and then in the right pane click the source title on the top right http://screencast.com/t/xzFPQIUN0h http://screencast.com/t/xzFPQIUN0h. You can also see the social metrics we've found on it by scrolling down in the info panel under "Popularity" and clicking any of the social links to see the sources http://screencast.com/t/W4CbKiSCK5Ep http://screencast.com/t/W4CbKiSCK5Ep. What do you like about having the controls stay open? Currently you can use keyboard shortcuts so you dont need to open the controls each time.
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4 points by avisud 12y ago

- SubtleTV plays trending videos from Reddit and other sites in a continuous stream. Users can see what’s popular across subreddits or within specific topics. - SubtleTV is designed to make it easy to find related content. Users can see videos other users recommend, and easily watch more from that subreddit or author without interrupting your viewing experience. This has been a project of mine for a while now. I'd love to hear feedback about the UI and features from fresh eyes. Thanks in advance!

tux 12y ago
What do you use to make this interface ?
- avisud 12y ago
  I do my design prototyping in Fireworks.
walterbell 12y ago
Looks promising, but rendered slowly on FF36 and video could not be played on iOS8. Is the idea that videos would play automatically and you could skip them like changing channels? Nice concept.
- avisud 12y ago
  Thank you for letting me know. Was it not letting you play anything at all? Which device? Yes that's exactly the idea. You can also watch specific topics.
  - walterbell 12y ago
    It originally had a play button, which disappeared when pressed, but no video appeared. Just tried again and it seems to be working, iOS8 iPad. When the share icon is pressed, the bottom bar flashes, but no other options appear. I assume this is a Javascript-controlled HTML5 player driven by your playlist API, so all content comes from YouTube and doesn't impose any streaming cost on you? It looks really good! You should create somewhere for users to comment on the UX, and link that from the UI. This may find unexpected and interesting applications, e.g. custom channels.
    - avisud 12y ago
      We currently have a feedback form to submit feedback and haven't gotten any yet through the form. We also have a dedicated subreddit at reddit.com/r/SubtleTV. Glad it's working now. iOS can be a bit tricky due to restrictions but we're working on improving compatibility as much as possible. Intended behavior for iOS is to open the native player and then let you skip to the next video from the native player. Once we have our iOS app it will be a lot smoother. Yes your assumptions are correct. We're streaming from Youtube, Dailymotion, and Vimeo using our custom player and our API. The suggestion about custom channels is a good one, currently you can watch specific topics by doing a search.
justfalcon 12y ago
Video won't play at all on Safari 8.0.4, it gets caught up loading HTML5 player. Works fine on Chrome though. Are all the video files hosted through YouTube? How would you handle pulling videos from two sources (YouTube + 2nd source)?
- avisud 12y ago
  So it starts to load the html player but nothing plays? The videos are from either Youtube, Vimeo, or Dailymotion.
  - justfalcon 12y ago
    It won't play at all. I'm using click to flash safari extension, and generally when there is any issue with the HTML5 player I'll right click and enable flash, but right click is disabled. While the UI is fine for mobile/touch, it's not really optimized for desktop use. It's an interesting idea though, do you have any plans for expansion on this?

tux 12y ago

WOW I wish all streaming tv would be as easy as this. Really like the interface of the site. Very easy to navigate. Thanks!

avisud 12y ago
Great to hear. I got tired of searching for good content and using interfaces that weren't couch friendly.
- tux 12y ago
  Please add ability to download videos or at least link to original videos. Also ability to have all the controls visible at all times. Can you release this website ui as open-source ?
  - avisud 12y ago
    Original videos are linked via the info panel. Click on the title of the video, and then in the right pane click the source title on the top right http://screencast.com/t/xzFPQIUN0h http://screencast.com/t/xzFPQIUN0h. You can also see the social metrics we've found on it by scrolling down in the info panel under "Popularity" and clicking any of the social links to see the sources http://screencast.com/t/W4CbKiSCK5Ep http://screencast.com/t/W4CbKiSCK5Ep. What do you like about having the controls stay open? Currently you can use keyboard shortcuts so you dont need to open the controls each time.

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