G+_George Kozi Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 Dear Lisa Kentzell and Leo Laporte , I'm sure you are aware of it, but I feel the need to add my voice to the chorus: the player on the TWiT website SUCKS and BLOWS at the same time, which in itself is quite remarkable. The functionality, especially when you switch into and from full screen, is so buggy that it resembles an ant farm. You can do better than that. The webpage is after all the window display of the shop, isn't it? Best wishes, George. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Michael Plass Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 I agree, if you go from full screen to page view mode it restarts the video and you can't just skip ahead. You have to redownload the whole thing again. I never watch on the web page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jeff Stevens Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 This will not reach them. Send an email. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_George Kozi Posted July 28, 2013 Author Share Posted July 28, 2013 Lisa Kentzell is watching the community. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Anthony W Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 I agree also and is one of the reasons I'm not a avid viewer, still a fan just not a frequent viewer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Tony Kruse Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 I went through a period where Flash was not working on my Linux computers. I had to dig and dig and finally came up with this audio stream that didn't rely on Flash: http://twit.am:80/listen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_George Kozi Posted July 28, 2013 Author Share Posted July 28, 2013 I'm kinda looking forward to watching TWIT on the big dumb TV when I get my little hands on a Cromecast... :DDDDD. This bugfarm has to be stomped out before that. They are playing with the big guys now, so the site has to be perfect. "It works" just won't do anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Nathaniel Jorge Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 I was thinking the same about the app for iPhone. Streaming audio is fine but crashes or freezes on me all the time even if I'm on wifi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Matt Bonnett Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 Although I am primarily an audio listener via Pocket Casts, I have ran into these issues on the site and feel they are long overdue for a modern playback experience. HTML5 is where it's at guys. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_George Kozi Posted July 28, 2013 Author Share Posted July 28, 2013 Ron Reifsnider I do that too, but sometimes I want to watch something again... and then I run into BugTown... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_George Kozi Posted July 28, 2013 Author Share Posted July 28, 2013 ... which is why they should fix the website. I know nothing about Roku... but I like the idea that this little dongle thing puts the entire web, on the big screen. Not only the TV broadcasts, but the whole thing... anything that can be shown in a Chrome Tab. That's huge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jeff Stevens Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 I watch occasionally and have no issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_George Kozi Posted July 28, 2013 Author Share Posted July 28, 2013 I'm still working up the courage to cut the cable... although I don't know what the heck is holding me back. I only watch TV when I remember that I have one in the livingroom, and that happens once in a blue moon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Chris Lael Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 I've noticed that problem on twit.tv. I rarely watch twit video, but when I do the experience basically sucks. I was just thinking though that the videos are available on YouTube aren't they? I don't have time right now to check into it, but I would guess that YouTube would provide a much better viewing experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jerry Ham Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 I agree, the player also just stops playing sometimes forcing me to youtube to watch. But I don't believe they put much effort into the site since they still can't get the schedule to show the right time after a few years of it being wrong and us complaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ivan Bigelow (Dezmo) Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 I usually watch them on Youtube because the player is pretty bad. Don't try and skip ahead or back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Demian Dellinger Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 George Kozi If you're watching older episodes on a pc/mac why not just download them (right click, save as on the video links for each episode), watch and delete? That's what I do because yeah the playback on the website itself is not great but you will have more flexibility and will probably use less system resources if you are playing back locally anyway. Between bandwidth/stream download annoyance and the resource gobbling of almost any streaming it's usually a better experience. (I've gone to downloading YouTube videos then watching them instead of watching them on the site because ads and poor playback drive me crazy). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Maciej Kos Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 Agreed. In addition to the issues mentioned above, I sometimes can't watch the first 5-15 minutes of certain episodes (e.g., TWiT last week). The player goes green and skips the beginning, which forces me to move to YouTube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Simon Zerafa Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 +Lisa Kentzell and +Leo Laporte should know by now that the web video player on TWiT.TV is not that good (no scrubbing through episodes for example). I've certainly mentioned it in the past with no response from anyone. I can only assume this is because they are not really interested in fixing it. The solutions are simple; in Google Chrome go to the episodes page and play the video from there with the internal Chrome Media Player. This offers better scrubbing abilities. Alternatively use YouTube where the playback via their media player is excellent and will even remember where you left off if you need to come back to an episode later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Brent Cappello Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 Roku by and far is the best TWiT viewing experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Maciej Kos Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 Simon Zerafa, or maybe they don't have enough resources to fix it. Are there any better alternative players that they could use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Leo Smith Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 The website works great compared to the Android apps! Guess I'll have to dig out my Roku. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Eng. Jorge Santana Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 I use YouTube, better experience... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Aaron Weintraub Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 To add to the wish list, I like to click on the show note links below the video to follow along, and instead of opening automatically in a new tab it boots me out of the show if I don't remember to "control" click it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Simon Zerafa Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 Maciej Kos I am fairly sure they have the resources to fix this if they wanted. As for alternatives then I guess we need to look for one and offer it as a suggestion. YouTube can play HTML5 content (in Chrome it uses WebM) but I am sure there are better MP4 playback solutions out there to be found. 30 seconds of searching via Google found an Open Source Project called PopCornJS which appears to work well: http://popcornjs.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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