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@fisk0: I fear EA will never cut prices (the best you'll get is rather rapid move from the EA Play Premium to Basic/included with Game Pass tier after it craters at retail again) but the last NfS was exactly that lower-budget minimal attempt at getting the franchise back to a point of smaller scope. Outdated open world (with hardly any story content padded with so much filler) often full of areas lacking in clutter or detail - very not-2019-looking result - all looking kinda ok because Frostbite can make anything look quite shiny & car games live on shiny bodywork & wet tarmac at night. Other than the bit where the anti-aliasing broke & turned it into a mess (although that same bug was in at least the previous NfS game too so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ).

Same here. Normally start on GB via a bookmark to the Continue Watching page (where I can remember last videos I finished watching & any stuff still in progress) but the page is all "Nothing to show just yet".

That page & my red bars was still working last time I was watching a video on at the site (the 5th), which seem to be after @rorie's message saying it was now fixed so not sure what's going on but this seems like now multiple reports that the fix may not have been as fixed as hoped.

@rorie: So I was watching the latest Rogue (part 6) and guess what happened (with the HTML5 player, in HD): yep, at around the 6m40s mark the video stopped playing & the page loaded up part 5 (as if the 59 minutes video had finished so it moved on to the next available episode in the series). When I navigated back to the video I was already partially through watching, it didn't resume so I had to scrub through it to find where I'd gotten to (it was right after Vinny said he needed to change the music).

I resumed from a few seconds before that point and it dropped out (endless buffering spinner this time) at exactly the same point so does seem to imply maybe something iffy about specific videos and the points where the player moves between chunks. So I opened the basic DevTools and tried a 3rd time (in case it happened yet again). Here's my waterfall after the initial page load:

lots of video chunks (mc_goingrogue_ep05_01172021_8000-[x].ts - yes, part 6 video is named ep05 as the first video was "run00") with occasional successful calls to giantbomb.com/api/video/save-time/ (so the resume is recording time progress correctly).

New video chunks are quickly downloaded initially then falls to steady-state (as you would expect from only grabbing a new file to refill the cache as the video plays). According to the progress bar the video had cached well beyond the point the video stops and the DevTools says mc_goingrogue_ep05_01172021_8000-92.ts was the last chunk requested (downloading this chunk is isolation, it appears to be about 9 minutes into the video so clearly it's not unable to grab the next chunk it need to play past 6m40s -every chunk before 92 is also giving status code 200 & looks to have been cached by the browser).

As soon as the video stopped playing this time (at exactly the same point), it called www.giantbomb.com/api/video/mark-watched/ (which will have wiped the resume timer - so apparently sometimes this doesn't happen because sometimes I've had the video resume where it stopped).

Hope this slightly more detailed report helps someone in tech scrub through the logs or get it to reproduce locally for a proper debugging. I'm planning to go back to the Progressive player as that has so far played back all these videos perfectly.

@rorie: I switched back to HTML5 HD when I saw this message (Progressive HD had been working flawlessly for me - the only reason I preferred the HTML5 player was it doesn't spin up the fans on my laptop but on my desktop both players use barely any processor resources) and so far haven't had any of the most recent videos suddenly end before they had finished. But I started rewatching that Rogue Part 01 video (as a test) and about 10 minutes in it prematurely claimed to have hit the end of the video. Maybe it's just a few videos uploaded around that time had something funky about them that the HTML5 player doesn't like.

Will continue using the HTML5 player and report if I see any newer videos exhibiting this issue.

To jump back in & mirror the above: since switching to Progressive HD rather than HTML5 (when it was suggested 3 days ago), I've had zero issues with any of the videos I've been watching (including further Going Rogue episodes that others have noted had the issue for them). So if this is a broader issue, it's only in the HTML5 player.

@chaser324: Thanks. I'd been using HTML5 so if there is a workaround I'll try that until a more permanent fix is in.

So in the last few days I've noticed a behaviour I've not seen being persistent before: a video I'm watching (potentially Premium-only, as I've noticed it happen in several of those videos but maybe I'm not remembering every instance & I've not watched many non-Premium videos in the last few days) stops playing and when I tab over to that page (I have it Picture-in-Picture so the page is not in-focus) then it's showing the "next video" option (clicking the play button loads the new page for the next video) but I had definitely not reached the end of the video.

When I go back to load the page for the video I was watching then sometimes it remembers where I was in the video but other times it has not resumed & restarted from the very beginning of the video. This seems to be totally inconsistent (I've had both things happen for the same video - as this happens often enough I've had it happen several times while watching a single video). It also isn't a set point in the video being buggy as it's happened at various points rather than consistently failing as a set place in the video file.

Maybe something going wrong when the video player tries to grab the next chunk of video rather than buffering correctly as it waits?

Definitely happened to me several times while watching: Going Rogue - Part 01, Playdate: Mahjong Mornings III.

Ye, missing last entry is probably unrelated & just something I'd not noticed before.

Other unboxing (Xbox X|S) also not sorting to the correct place in Latest too. Probably not that helpful for us to list every time something goes missing or the order breaks as it seems to be happening enough that it's not just a few stray entries that need their database values tweaked (and obviously the engineering team there have major disruptions from ownership changeover that reduce bandwidth for debugging attempts).

Anyone else seeing a missing "Another PlayStation 5 Unboxing" [Oct. 27 2020] in the Latest page (not next to the Astro's Playroom QL but also, if you scroll down to the bottom of the page of videos, there is a missing gap as if the query knew it had collected enough with that video but isn't displaying it)? [I cut out the full lines of videos in between the top and bottom of the first page as I currently see them & made the split clear with a yellow line.]

Just to bump this to say that the lack of correct ordering (by the publication date used to generate the "x hours ago"/"Mth YY" text under the video in the Latest index) is making itself known on the first page with subtle ordering issues that can move things around enough to make it harder to actually find stuff without going into a show index (because several feeds of the same event are not next to each other in the index). Current listing show: (6 days ago is Oct 16 & that video lists that date when you open it; Mass Alex is also slightly out of order)

Unfinished: Baldur's Gate 3 (10/13/2020)

Oct 14

Giant Bombcast 656: Throw Up Your Bungers

Oct 13

Playdate: Phasmophobia (10/16/2020)

6 days ago

Six Crazy Frights: Ep. 403 - Phasmophobia

Oct 10

Mass Alex: Mass Effect 3 - Part 26 (The Finale)

Oct 9

Best of Giant Bomb: 198 - Paint Me Like Your English Marios

Oct 10

The HotSpot - Episode 382

Oct 9

Page 2 currently:

Quick Look: Super Mario 3D All-Stars

Sep 24

Clue Crew: Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull - Part 2

Sep 25

Quick Look: Hades

Sep 23

Quick Look: WWE 2K Battlegrounds

Sep 24

Breaking Brad: Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels VII

Sep 23

Lockdown 2020: Rhythm Hell Fever - Part 9

Sep 23

Mass Alex: Mass Effect 3 - Part 24

Sep 23

Quick Look: NBA 2K21

Sep 23

Giant Bombcast 653: That's Hot Soup!

Sep 22

VinnyVania: Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2 - Part 03

Sep 25

The HotSpot - Episode 379

Sep 18

Even the very latest are clearly not using the published dates to actually sort with:

The Giant Beastcast: Ep. 283 - The Giant Beastcast

5 hours ago

Quick Look: Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition

12 hours ago

Unfinished: Immortals Fenyx Rising 10/22/2020

9 hours ago