It's fine. I just don't like the fact that every time I want to watch a video I have to change the quality settings even though I have HD selected before I press play.
It's fine. I just don't like the fact that every time I want to watch a video I have to change the quality settings even though I have HD selected before I press play.
Same here. Hopefully this is a bug they fix eventually (soon?).
@emem: Yes. There is no resampling or filtering when in fullscreen wihich suggests unfinished code. This shouldn't work this way. I don't understand how any website engineer could allow this to be like that. Abomination.
It's good, but I do wish it allowed for changing quality settings without resetting the video. Also, I wish there was an option to switch to streaming rather than progressive.
@emem: Yes. There is no resampling or filtering when in fullscreen wihich suggests unfinished code. This shouldn't work this way. I don't understand how any website engineer could allow this to be like that. Abomination.
@emem: Yes. There is no resampling or filtering when in fullscreen wihich suggests unfinished code. This shouldn't work this way. I don't understand how any website engineer could allow this to be like that. Abomination.
Dave is working on it
Fantastic. I didn't see it on his list and was afraid it isn't considered as a real issue.
@emem: Yes. There is no resampling or filtering when in fullscreen wihich suggests unfinished code. This shouldn't work this way. I don't understand how any website engineer could allow this to be like that. Abomination.
Dave is working on it
Fantastic. I didn't see it on his list and was afraid it isn't considered as a real issue.
Just send him a message with the bugs you find, even if he's heard it before he needs to hear them again and again. Also, it makes it seem like he has friends when people see that his inbox is filled with messages :P
Bummer that I can't skip ahead and that changing video quality causes the file to restart, but I couldn't change the video quality mid-video at all before, so that's a step up. Also, haven't had any issues with buffering yet, so that's a marked improvement. So it's fine, because great to me implies being wowed and my reaction was more "oh, okay, neat."
@emem: Yes. There is no resampling or filtering when in fullscreen wihich suggests unfinished code. This shouldn't work this way. I don't understand how any website engineer could allow this to be like that. Abomination.
Dave is working on it
Fantastic. I didn't see it on his list and was afraid it isn't considered as a real issue.
Just send him a message with the bugs you find, even if he's heard it before he needs to hear them again and again. Also, it makes it seem like he has friends when people see that his inbox is filled with messages :P
If that's the case, why hasn't Gamespot changed/fixed it after what feels like years? They had a different player not too long ago (I think), but there has been that terrible video quality for a very long time and it's actually one of the main reasons why I don't watch videos on Gamespot.
@emem: Yes. There is no resampling or filtering when in fullscreen wihich suggests unfinished code. This shouldn't work this way. I don't understand how any website engineer could allow this to be like that. Abomination.
Dave is working on it
Fantastic. I didn't see it on his list and was afraid it isn't considered as a real issue.
Just send him a message with the bugs you find, even if he's heard it before he needs to hear them again and again. Also, it makes it seem like he has friends when people see that his inbox is filled with messages :P
If that's the case, why hasn't Gamespot changed/fixed it after what feels like years? They had a different player not too long ago (I think), but there has been that terrible video quality for a very long time and it's one of the main reasons why I don't watch videos on Gamespot.
I will ask around the office and see why we at Gamespot haven't changed it yet... Wait a minute, I don't work a Gamespot. Maybe it's because they don't have their own Dave? (face it, nobody does) and now that he's in the same building that one will get fixed too?
@ZeForgotten: Well, I would assume that it either has to be a bigger problem which takes more time to fix (I'm having a hard time believing that) or people don't see a difference in video quality and no one has complained about it before. It's not about the site GS, but about the fact that videos have been offered to people with that same quality for a long time and it hasn't changed... I was just wondering why?
its great, i use safari on mac and had problems with youtube freezing the browser for videos longer than 5 or 10 minutes* so for quick looks i had to open chrome to watch
it wasn't a problem just slightly inconvenient, the new player loads perfectly in safari so i'm happy with it
*not to derail the thread, but, anyone else having this problem?
I use the HTML5 version so I didn't even notice they had changed it until I saw 3-4 threads spring up. In that regard I have no problem with it, but I can certainly see why people take issue with it given the post by Dave of the problems they are looking into. I am sure it will be fine once they get those issues sorted though.
Wow, didn't even realize it was there until I looked at this thread. I usually keep it on HTML5, but after seeing this I switched. The HTML5 video UI doesn't disappear unless you take your mouse completely off the page, and I don't like the full screen option it gives you. Does have some work to go, though, but I have faith in Dave!
From the radio show discussion I had thought they might add a player that would incorporate user comments along the progress bar that highlighted specific times of the video, similar to what soundcloud does for their audio player. My only gripe with the player is not being able to jump to any time of the video without it fully downloaded, with longer videos there really needs to be that option. Other than that it seems fine.
Along with other things people have said. My biggest annoyance would be the fact that the fullsize button is to the left of the quality (which is far right). On other players like youtube, the fullscreen is on the far right.
I feel like this is an internal GB joke, like how the xbox controller switched around the colors on their controllers lol, but it still annoys me.
@emem: Yes. There is no resampling or filtering when in fullscreen wihich suggests unfinished code. This shouldn't work this way. I don't understand how any website engineer could allow this to be like that. Abomination.
Dave is working on it
Really? Because Gamespot had it like that for evvvvvvvver. As someone who watches HD on a big monitor, fullscreen, it looks fucking awful, even in HD. Anything else is just impossible to watch in fullscreen.
There was nothing wrong with the old player. Changing quality midstream seems like a totally useless thing, but I guess it would be handy if you have really spotty internet and need to turn it down? I would just put it at progressive/download it and be patient but that's just me. I don't see why they felt the need to change.
@yoshimitz707 said:
The bar is way too big and ugly! So I switched to the HTML5 since GB just uses your browser's own thing for that.
This another issue. That bar is so fucking fat. Luckily I'm on a 1920x1200 monitor so it mostly fits in the black bar, but it's way too big. Sadly HTML5 doesn't work in my browser. Although I'm not sure why, I had no issues with Chrome before, I thought they had been going back on that whole "we hate HTML5 videos despite supporting HTML5" crap.
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