This will be good addition for user experience.
We are thinking about changing layout slightly, so we might postpone this till then.
Nevertheless it's something we are looking for as well :)
When playing sync-video with friends, it doesnt autoplay to the next video. Insead, it stays paused on the video untill the host switches to the tab where sync-video was opened. This is already happening for a week. I enjoy the website and i hope it will be fixed soon.
websites, like kissanime, http://kissanime.com/Anime/Another-Dub/Episode-008?id=67044 for reference not for recommendation, use JWplayer be nice if we could add a kissanime link to watch the video with friends, kissanime did use a youtube player but switched
When playing YouTube videos in a sync room, upon pausing the video, I find myself unable to play it again. I have tried refreshing and clearing the cache, but neither solves the problem. This has been happening for a while.
I really like your website, it is a really useful service for me and my long-distance girlfriend.
Many thanks.
Me and my friends have been using sync video a lot lately. My suggestion is about adding another level (above Op) for owners to assign to guests, one that will allow them to pause and play the video. The reason for this is the autoplay feature; it only works when a video concludes, leading to the next. It does not work when there is no video playing or is paused.
Having this sort of feature would allow our room (6 active users) more freedom to share videos instead of relying on the owner to play, pause and start the next video when autoplay does not help. Thanks.
I'd love to sync videos from places other than youtube or vimeo. Or to be able to sync videos from a third-party link. Or even to upload our own videos to sync. I'd love to watch episodes of my favourite tv program but it's never uploaded to youtube, vimeo, or dailymotion due to their strict content policing. I think it'd be great to add more options to search and watch from.
It would be cool for the OP to be able to talk to everyone in the room, kind of like a radio station.
You could talk for a short while in between songs and allow other people in the room to "call into the show" and mess around.
It would be cool to have a second playlist that any user could add videos to. When a user adds a video to this suggestion playlist, an op could then either add the video to the actual playlist, or delete it and see the next suggestion. To keep a user from spamming it, ops could deny a user the right to add videos or just disable the suggestion playlist completely.
I tried adding a URL to an mp4 file with a query parameter and it wasn't added, however removing the query parameter allowed it to be added (but it didn't work without the parameters)
One of the reasons I paid for RoyalBlue was so that I could have a permanent room for friends to watch through playlists with me. Unfortunately, if the playlist is rather extensive, we seem to encounter an 'afk timer' which clears the playlist/room without telling us, forcing us to refresh the page completely, re-enter the playlist and begin where we lost it. While this seems a minor inconvenience, having to do this multiple times daily for extensive playlists makes this an unappealing prospect.
My guess is this happens because we are not interacting with the playlist at all since it is automatically playing through the one we created until it automatically detects we are not active. This is not the case, we simply do not *need* to interact with the site as it's autoplay function guarantees continuous play.
What I would suggest is that you develop some way to determine if users are truly AFK that does not involve direct interaction with the interface. It seems a flimsy and unreliable system at current, and an annoyance to have to deal with a system incorrectly guessing we are not there.
As a suggestion, I would at least request some sort of pop-up warning, letting us know when the system *thinks* we're AFK, and giving us a 5-minute period to confirm we are still consciously active, and not to reset the channel. Setting this popup to appear once every half an hour of inactivity would at least give us the chance to confirm we're still watching, and avoid any inconvenience.
a nice addition to the UI would be the ability to pop out the chat and the video-player(and an upgrade to HTML5 would be awesome too!).
another addition could be the ability to go fullscreen with the chat by its side or under the video(a drag click and re-sizable chat and video would be awesome for this so its fully customizable).
maybe even implement some chat commands and someway to link the chat to other chat services? that would be really cool.
Would greatly appreciate if the following features could make their way into your service in a near future. :)
- Larger/longer or resizable playlist size.
- Minimal playlist size mode (Removes thumb images and makes the list generally smaller).
- Playlist video order numbering.
- Next/Previous video buttons for quick next/previous video switching instead of having to use playlist to select play manually.
I think an option fro markers or drawings would be sick. I'm using this site very often to go over gameplay footage with others. I dont know if other gamers can relate, but this would make things very easy for explanation or visualizing for improvements.
Whenever I watch videos with someone, I'm the only one who can pause, play and scrub through the video even if I make him "op". it would be useful if an "op" could do that stuff as well.
My suggestion is a button similar to the "Play Next" feature in iTunes, where there's a second button beside the + button that only the Owner of the room can use that adds the video directly to the next position in the playlist regardless of any other videos that are already queued. This way if you have a long playlist and want to play a video inbetween the current video and the next you can just add it this way instead of having to add it, scroll to the bottom of the playlist and start it manually, and then go back to where you were and start the next video manually.
Make Sync Video open source suggestion
By making the website open source, you'll allow more people to contribute to it and make it better.
Night mode? suggestion
I went ahead and wrote for myself a quick and dirty userscript for it, but it'd be nice to have an official 'night mode' which darkens everything.
This will be good addition for user experience.
We are thinking about changing layout slightly, so we might postpone this till then.
Nevertheless it's something we are looking for as well :)
iMessage app suggestion
Make an iMessage app so I can watch YouTube videos with my friends on iMessage
Issue with videos error
When playing sync-video with friends, it doesnt autoplay to the next video. Insead, it stays paused on the video untill the host switches to the tab where sync-video was opened. This is already happening for a week. I enjoy the website and i hope it will be fixed soon.
HTML 5 suggestion
Will we get HTML 5 support as flash is slowly getting phased out by Google and the others.
For anime watchers, suggestion
websites, like kissanime, http://kissanime.com/Anime/Another-Dub/Episode-008?id=67044 for reference not for recommendation, use JWplayer be nice if we could add a kissanime link to watch the video with friends, kissanime did use a youtube player but switched
It's something we would like to look into at some point.
Increasing sources of possible videos syncing is main goal of our app.
Issue with pausing videos error
When playing YouTube videos in a sync room, upon pausing the video, I find myself unable to play it again. I have tried refreshing and clearing the cache, but neither solves the problem. This has been happening for a while.
I really like your website, it is a really useful service for me and my long-distance girlfriend.
Many thanks.
I believe there was an issue in general with video resuming after pause.
We have fixed this problem and it should be solved right now.
Thanks
Multiple Owners (or similar) suggestion
Me and my friends have been using sync video a lot lately. My suggestion is about adding another level (above Op) for owners to assign to guests, one that will allow them to pause and play the video. The reason for this is the autoplay feature; it only works when a video concludes, leading to the next. It does not work when there is no video playing or is paused.
Having this sort of feature would allow our room (6 active users) more freedom to share videos instead of relying on the owner to play, pause and start the next video when autoplay does not help. Thanks.
Returning owner suggestion
Returning owner status without having to refresh the page
More video search/play options suggestion
I'd love to sync videos from places other than youtube or vimeo. Or to be able to sync videos from a third-party link. Or even to upload our own videos to sync. I'd love to watch episodes of my favourite tv program but it's never uploaded to youtube, vimeo, or dailymotion due to their strict content policing. I think it'd be great to add more options to search and watch from.
Voice functionality suggestion
It would be cool for the OP to be able to talk to everyone in the room, kind of like a radio station.
You could talk for a short while in between songs and allow other people in the room to "call into the show" and mess around.
Fullscreen between videos suggestion
Would be good if we could stay in fullscreen when a new video begins. Currently it goes back to windowed when a new video loads
Ability to suggest videos to add to the playlist suggestion
It would be cool to have a second playlist that any user could add videos to. When a user adds a video to this suggestion playlist, an op could then either add the video to the actual playlist, or delete it and see the next suggestion. To keep a user from spamming it, ops could deny a user the right to add videos or just disable the suggestion playlist completely.
YouTube playlists not being added error
YouTube playlists have stopped aren't added to a room anymore when I paste the playlist link or a video link with the playlist at the end.
Yes, I have confirmed this is indeed an issue.
All because youtube changed API and is not supporting old one.
We will look into this and try to fix it in next release.
Support MP4 URLs with query parameters in them error
I tried adding a URL to an mp4 file with a query parameter and it wasn't added, however removing the query parameter allowed it to be added (but it didn't work without the parameters)
Lyrics from Music Videos suggestion
I'd love to read the lyrics of the songs I'm listening.
You already have the name (ex. Radiohead - Karma Police), so I created a script that creates the urls for a website:
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/radiohead/karmapolice.html
Here's the script:
function createLink () {
var name = document.getElementById('current-video-name').innerHTML.replace(/([\s]|\(.*\))/g, '').toLowerCase().split('-');
var url = 'http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/' + name[0] + '/'+ name[1] + '.html';
return url;
};
I hope you like it.
Prevent permanent/named channels from automatically clearing on timer suggestion
One of the reasons I paid for RoyalBlue was so that I could have a permanent room for friends to watch through playlists with me. Unfortunately, if the playlist is rather extensive, we seem to encounter an 'afk timer' which clears the playlist/room without telling us, forcing us to refresh the page completely, re-enter the playlist and begin where we lost it. While this seems a minor inconvenience, having to do this multiple times daily for extensive playlists makes this an unappealing prospect.
My guess is this happens because we are not interacting with the playlist at all since it is automatically playing through the one we created until it automatically detects we are not active. This is not the case, we simply do not *need* to interact with the site as it's autoplay function guarantees continuous play.
What I would suggest is that you develop some way to determine if users are truly AFK that does not involve direct interaction with the interface. It seems a flimsy and unreliable system at current, and an annoyance to have to deal with a system incorrectly guessing we are not there.
As a suggestion, I would at least request some sort of pop-up warning, letting us know when the system *thinks* we're AFK, and giving us a 5-minute period to confirm we are still consciously active, and not to reset the channel. Setting this popup to appear once every half an hour of inactivity would at least give us the chance to confirm we're still watching, and avoid any inconvenience.
UI suggestion suggestion
a nice addition to the UI would be the ability to pop out the chat and the video-player(and an upgrade to HTML5 would be awesome too!).
another addition could be the ability to go fullscreen with the chat by its side or under the video(a drag click and re-sizable chat and video would be awesome for this so its fully customizable).
maybe even implement some chat commands and someway to link the chat to other chat services? that would be really cool.
Essential feature request... suggestion
Would greatly appreciate if the following features could make their way into your service in a near future. :)
- Larger/longer or resizable playlist size.
- Minimal playlist size mode (Removes thumb images and makes the list generally smaller).
- Playlist video order numbering.
- Next/Previous video buttons for quick next/previous video switching instead of having to use playlist to select play manually.
Thanks a bunch!
~StarScribe
Markers, temporary drawings etc. suggestion
I think an option fro markers or drawings would be sick. I'm using this site very often to go over gameplay footage with others. I dont know if other gamers can relate, but this would make things very easy for explanation or visualizing for improvements.
sync-video API suggestion
API support for controlling sync-video rooms.
Whether it be the room or just a user account, I'd love a way to control the video and playlist.
More permissions suggestion
Whenever I watch videos with someone, I'm the only one who can pause, play and scrub through the video even if I make him "op". it would be useful if an "op" could do that stuff as well.
Allow porn videos suggestion
Add Next button suggestion
My suggestion is a button similar to the "Play Next" feature in iTunes, where there's a second button beside the + button that only the Owner of the room can use that adds the video directly to the next position in the playlist regardless of any other videos that are already queued. This way if you have a long playlist and want to play a video inbetween the current video and the next you can just add it this way instead of having to add it, scroll to the bottom of the playlist and start it manually, and then go back to where you were and start the next video manually.
Fullscreen suggestion
I don't understand why this is gone. it was so nice and now it's about impossible to use without it