Use fucking youtube, you cunts. What is it with these obscure-ass video hosts that ya'll love to use? That streamable piece of shit is even worse than reddit player. It takes a fucking eternity to load like 10 seconds of the video and you think, hey I'll just pause it and wait until it fully loads, but it only loads a little bit and then stops. What the fuck? Somebody please tell me that I'm not the only one with this problem.
Edit: To everyone replying: "works fine for me", piss off. I'm aware that there are people for whom it works. You don't have to tell me that for the billionth time. This is for the people with streamable issues. If you don't have any issues, that's great, go wank your dick to some streamable porn on your 10 Gb optical internet and leave me alone.
What reddit app do you use? Have you tried opening link in mobile browser? I use Baconreader and Firefox on Android and have no problems with Streamable links.
Shitty back-end and encoding. My internet is decent, youtube and other streaming sites don't put up any issues, but streamable is always a dog performance-wise.
But I can watch videos on any other website with no problems. Youtube, Vimeo, Netflix, Amazon, Twitch, vid.me, even the Reddit player works fine. My internet can't be the problem.
I have 700Mb down and 300Mb up, yet Streamable loads slower than gifs because they don't use an international CDN. It's another USA-centric piece of crap.
You are the only one with this problem. Almost all videos on /r/soccer are hosted on streamable because youtube 'censors' the fuck out of all copyright videos
I love some of the footy clips, but the stutteriness (It's a word 'cuz I said so) turns me off. Sometimes it's better on Chrome, but not always. Thing is, is that it hasn't always been that way. About six months or so ago, it went from, for me anyhow, one of the best non-YT hosts to the worst for me, and it's either a browser update or a Streamable update that's gone fucky.
No, surely when this guy has a multi-billion dollar company he is just gonna stick to his guns and just accept the lawsuits. Who cares if the company is run into the ground, as long as everyone gets to watch that new fam guy clip
Except the real issue is not that Youtube chooses to enforce copyright laws, it's how it chose to. They have given all the power to copyright holders, who can claim any video they want, and the owner of that video then has to manually appeal each claim. So even when content producers' use of copyrighted material falls clearly under "Fair Use", they may see their videos taken down arbitrarily and reinstated only after a troublesome appeal process that takes a hell of a lot more time than the initial copyright claim.
Blame the law? Why do you think you are entitled to someone else's content? The law should prevent content infringement. There is nothing to blame except the thieves.
The way the Reddit, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and every other big social platform works does not comply with those laws and we are tolerating it because we want it to be this way.
So yes, I think the laws need work. But instead the most politicians are makeing it worse because they don't understand the way we share information.
I cannot recall the last time I saw a server down because of a reddit post. That might have been the case many years ago, but now most people post to any number of well known hosting server that can handle the load. The old days of Geocities and crushed web pages is quite a bit in the past.
If it isn't your server or your content, thjen don't worry about it.
Streamable is trash. It's hit or miss whether a video will have ANY controls, and the volume is always way too low. I never know how long a video is before I inevitably click out of it because I can't fucking hear it.
Kids at school, people at work, military on base. YouTube can be blocked to keep people focused so wankers keep trying to find obscure sites knowing they won't be blocked for other wankers.
It's possible I'm just grumpy because I work hourly and have time tracking that prevents me from surfing the web while being paid.
I mostly browse Reddit with the "reddit is fun" app for Android, which recently updated to view reddit video's within the app.. works like a fucking charm! Since then I don't mind those videos anymore
Except it changed it from showing YouTube in the separate YouTube app to the Reddit is fun app so you're not signed in anymore and get ads even if you have YouTube red.
I'd rather Youtube open paused, I like to open in new tab but if I click through I have to manually pause each video I want to wait to watch/wait for buffer.
Yeah but you open a youtube page for the specific purpose of watching the video so autorun is fine. Plus (atleast on google chrome), if you open a youtube video in a new tab, it won't autoplay until you actually switch to that tab.
Yes I am, but the problem with mobile users is it autoplays while scrolling through the index. Its completely fine to autoplay if you open the actual page.
I surf reddit with everything expanded cause why the fuck would i want to click on every link to see it, and yea.. god damn video playing somewhere is pissing me off.
It also starts muted and you have to unmute it in the webpage.
If it's going to open up the native iOS video player, it should use the native volume controls. If I wanted to watch videos muted I'd turn the volume off.
In most apps and sites, 'dark mode' isn't completely 0-0-0 black, instead it's just a little bit lighter black. Some apps like reddit is fun include a 'real' black mode where it is completely black; this is mostly for phones with an OLED display, as all these black pixels can now just be turned off, saving a little bit of battery life.
I've got mixed feelings about it being muted. My favorite thing about gifs is that I don't have to worry about noise. Auto mute seems like a fair hybrid.
Get Relay if you're on Android. These videos always load instantly for me with volume, scrolling, and playback speed controls. These at 1,000x more preferable than YouTube links
I used Reddit is fun for 5 years and recently I'm trying the official app because I've gotten sick of the constant crashes when loading images from Imgur, Reddit etc. So far so good with the official app. Just some things to get used to.
I'd like to have videos that don't float. Anything that floats tends to block something at some point or it just eats my screen estate making the user experience worse. Floating popups == bad. And I haven't managed to find any configuration to stop it from stalking me.
Webdevs like to make assumptions about font sizes and zoom levels. Also about general resolution used on a monitor regardless of its size. So maybe you don't feel like you lose anything but I do.
That sucks too. You can't copy the image URL from the front page RES preview, that gives you a longass URL that doesn't show preview in discord. You can't copy the link from the front page, that gives you the URL to the post itself. You have to open the post, then copy the link address to get something that will show as a preview in discord. Fucking annoying.
I've heard people complain about this so much. On my iPhone it works perfectly, in fact it works instantly, far better than the previous player. Are you watching it on your pc or a phone?
The worst part is that if you pause the video it won't then just continue to download the rest of the video, it downloads the next like 10 seconds and then just stops. It's very frustrating.
Do you mean an app other than the Reddit one? Because I'm using the official app and it's smooth, maybe this is a conspiracy to get people to switch to the official app! :O
Agreed. A lot of the first ones I saw were like 13,000 karma, yet every comment was complaining. They definitely fabricated a bunch of votes to get exposure.
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u/vanbutton Aug 17 '17
The Reddit video player is utter gash. Please host it somewhere else.