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Hey there is a new video player rolling out. For the most part most of you should just be seeing the YT embeds on the site but if there are any issues with Premium videos, please let me know in this thread. One thing is that the Play Next Video functionality will probably break with this rollout but we'll find out together!

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Maybe im missing something but there does not seem to have the old "auto resume to where you were" if you reload the page :(

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@ydross said:

Maybe im missing something but there does not seem to have the old "auto resume to where you were" if you reload the page :(

Hmm I'll have to check on that one.

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Wow this is unfortunate. The GB player will be missed. Fill to browser, as opposed to full screen, was a game-changer for me and how I could watch content while doing other easy tasks I needed to work on during the day. If the previously noted auto-resume is indeed gone, I can live with that, but if the progress bars don't fill up upon finishing a video, I am screwed. That seems to be the case based upon my first finished video. When viewing the videos page, the red completion bars under videos is how I kept track of my backlog of videos (like podcast episodes in podcast apps being marked listened to or not). To be clear, I still see the progress bar for old videos right now. But that vanishing on old videos and the progress bar apparently being a non-feature on the new player is a big issue for at least myself.

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@paul_tillich: I'm looking into what it will take to restore all that! Engineers are aware, we'll see what we can do.

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Yea, the completion bar is a biggy. We lost all of the status' for every watched video during the last site re-design and never got them back. Hopefully they won't go away too. Other than that I am fine with this lol.

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I don't know if it's just me, but I can't seem to cast videos to a chromecast device any more

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Seems like the videos with the new player are on auto-mute when I start them. Is that an intentional thing?

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@rorie: Thank you. I'm sure you get a lot of crap flung your way, especially amid transitions, so I just want to give you a thank you, and I appreciate that this in on the radar.

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Doesn't seem to be a way to switch back to the Youtube player from the new GB player. Had to delete cookies/cache.

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Is this related to the download file names now just being random strings of letters and numbers?

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#13  Edited By UncleJam23

Hey @rorie, so the fact that it doesn't always resume from where you were has already been reported. Sometimes if I'm away from the tab for a while, it stays where I paused it. Sometimes, however, when I return to the tab, it goes back the start screen and when I play the video again, it restarts from the beginning. I also have to click a "Play Sound" button despite the fact that it's already playing sound. All it seems to do is make the button go away.

NOTE: I have premium, and I'm trying all this out with the new Demo Derby. I have another tab open with "Demo Derby: PlayStation Underground: Volume 3 Issue 3" and that still shows up in the old player.

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I'm also experiencing the click to play sound button on the videos I have played this morning.

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@isjelly: AirPlay isn’t working anymore either

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@antime: I do not know but I will ask!

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Hey @rorie, thanks for your help investigating issues from this change!

I found another one unfortunately. It looks like this upgrade coincided with a change in the video file hosting location and the video RSS feeds are broken.

e.g. https://www.giantbomb.com/videos/feed/mobile/?api_key=REDACTED-SECRET-KEY

Grubber Lang's Punch-Out!! 03 was the last working video with the URL in the RSS of:

<enclosure url="https://giantbomb.redvideo.io/2023/02/01/2ded6ec7-407e-4a27-94a2-44f79d413667/vf_grubberlang_020123_920_360h700k.mp4?api_key=REDACTED-SECRET-KEY" type="video/mp4" length="0"/>

Game Mess Mornings 02/01/23 and all videos posted afterwards have a new host and are rejecting (403 Forbidden) download requests:

<enclosure url="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/videos/7mEow2YV-rwwcgS4K.mp4?api_key=REDACTED-SECRET-KEY" type="video/mp4" length="0"/>

If you need other info, I am happy to provide.

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@windex said:

Hey @rorie, thanks for your help investigating issues from this change!

I found another one unfortunately. It looks like this upgrade coincided with a change in the video file hosting location and the video RSS feeds are broken.

e.g. https://www.giantbomb.com/videos/feed/mobile/?api_key=REDACTED-SECRET-KEY

Grubber Lang's Punch-Out!! 03 was the last working video with the URL in the RSS of:

<enclosure url="https://giantbomb.redvideo.io/2023/02/01/2ded6ec7-407e-4a27-94a2-44f79d413667/vf_grubberlang_020123_920_360h700k.mp4?api_key=REDACTED-SECRET-KEY" type="video/mp4" length="0"/>

Game Mess Mornings 02/01/23 and all videos posted afterwards have a new host and are rejecting (403 Forbidden) download requests:

<enclosure url="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/videos/7mEow2YV-rwwcgS4K.mp4?api_key=REDACTED-SECRET-KEY" type="video/mp4" length="0"/>

If you need other info, I am happy to provide.

Thanks that's not good! I will let the engineers know.

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#19  Edited By paradigmdream

couple annoyances i've noticed with the new player. these may have been addressed somewhere but i just wanted to throw this out there anyway. let me know if i can clarify anything further.

-every video seems to be muted by default

-if i press the pause/play button on my keyboard, it doesn't pause the video thats playing but instead starts playing the same video i guess layered underneath the video that is visible resulting in the same video playing twice. i hope that makes sense. i tried this on other sites and its working fine everywhere else.

-played videos aren't being tracked on the videos page. makes it a little harder to keep track of what i haven't watched.

-videos no longer resume where i left off which has become a bigger issue with the double playing i mentioned above. i have to refresh the page when that happens and then try to figure out where i was

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@rorie said:
@windex said:

Hey @rorie, thanks for your help investigating issues from this change!

I found another one unfortunately. It looks like this upgrade coincided with a change in the video file hosting location and the video RSS feeds are broken.

e.g. https://www.giantbomb.com/videos/feed/mobile/?api_key=REDACTED-SECRET-KEY

Grubber Lang's Punch-Out!! 03 was the last working video with the URL in the RSS of:

<enclosure url="https://giantbomb.redvideo.io/2023/02/01/2ded6ec7-407e-4a27-94a2-44f79d413667/vf_grubberlang_020123_920_360h700k.mp4?api_key=REDACTED-SECRET-KEY" type="video/mp4" length="0"/>

Game Mess Mornings 02/01/23 and all videos posted afterwards have a new host and are rejecting (403 Forbidden) download requests:

<enclosure url="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/videos/7mEow2YV-rwwcgS4K.mp4?api_key=REDACTED-SECRET-KEY" type="video/mp4" length="0"/>

If you need other info, I am happy to provide.

Thanks that's not good! I will let the engineers know.

It looks like there is a fix for this but may take until Monday to roll out. Sorry for the trouble but thanks for the report!

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Ever since the introduction of the new player idk of effecting the app on Apple TV. Apple TV won’t play any new videos. I’ve tried it on all 3 TVs. I don’t think it’s on my end because the games mess morning and punch out 3 work from before the change was made.

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#23  Edited By SleinMcAwesome

Any chance we'll get the Embiggen/Full Window options back? So where it fills the complete browser window with the video, but not goes fully fullscreen like with the Fullscreen option? Seems to be missing in the new player.

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Another issue I've noticed on top of what other have mentioned, is the controls at the bottom often stay visible and do not hide themselves after a few seconds as they should. I am seeing this happen in Firefox.

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Any chance we'll get the Embiggen/Full Window options back? So where it fills the complete browser window with the video, but not goes fully fullscreen like with the Fullscreen option? Seems to be missing in the new player.

I think this should be doable but it's in the hands of the engineers right now!

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Ever since the introduction of the new player idk of effecting the app on Apple TV. Apple TV won’t play any new videos. I’ve tried it on all 3 TVs. I don’t think it’s on my end because the games mess morning and punch out 3 work from before the change was made.

Assuming the Apple TV App pulls from the same RSS feeds I reference above, then the potential fix coming Monday should address this too!

@rorie said:

It looks like there is a fix for this but may take until Monday to roll out. Sorry for the trouble but thanks for the report!

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#27  Edited By dragmagpuff

It appears that the video player time tracker can't fit the longer times right where part of the time wraps onto a new line. Something like below.

03:45 / 01:45

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I think I'm just seeing the same stuff everyone else is seeing. Resume doesn't work, doesn't list the video in Continue Watching. Videos are muted at the start. No option to switch to YouTube. Time code text wraps if the browser window is past a certain size.

This is my experience with Chrome on Windows anyway. I'll probably just use YouTube right now since video resume is pretty important to me.

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@rorie: Thanks, I hope they will add it. Those options were a big reason why I liked the "old" player, the video automatically fitting to the browser window makes it a great way to resize it and move it around anywhere on the screen I want without having to download the video. :)

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I am curious why there is a new player? Really liked the old one.

I have the same issues as everyone else and the overlay never goes away in fullscreen.

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The new player is awesome (mainly cuz it doesnt fart out for weeks at a time on my desktop).

Top work from top men.

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@avioto said:

I am curious why there is a new player? Really liked the old one.

I have the same issues as everyone else and the overlay never goes away in fullscreen.

I believe this is a Fandom-wide player for all sites going forward. RV and CBS before them had their own video players that they liked to use across all properties, so it's not uncommon for this to happen. Just have to try and make sure that we don't lose too much GB-specific functionality in the process.

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#34  Edited By daltimond

Might have been said, but the video defaults to muted. If you hit the volume button to unmute it, the "play sound" notification stays at the top left of the video. It still goes away once you click it. Minor thing I'm sure but I figured I'd say it.

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@rorie: Plus one for "Fill to browser" function. TY

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+1 for the loss of the following: resume at last point watched, no fitting to the browser window, and loading videos muted.

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Hey I believe the issues with the RSS feeds should be resolved but please let me know if it isn't!

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A bunch of recent videos aren’t showing up in the ‘latest’ feed or in their respective show feeds for me. For instance the latest Voicemail Dump Truck and the Future Port ‘82 Quick Look don’t show up on the site, but are available on YouTube. Is this related to the new video player too somehow or is something different going on?

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#41  Edited By rorie

@aizo: Hmm this showed up for me in the VMDT feed:

https://www.giantbomb.com/shows/55/2970-22121/free-video

But let me check on the Future Port vid.

(Checked the Future Port vid and it looks like it didn't publish correctly but should be live now.)

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#45  Edited By bigsteve33

(sent a report on the video player)

Latest Giantbombcast video is not working. When I press the play button nothing happens. I refresh the page and then the play button gives me a never ending "loading circle". Now, if I hit Download, I just get Processing... under the Download button. (this is new). All browsers Windows 11. Also Ipad Chrome browser. This was the case for both Premium Video and Free Video. then after 10:35pm EST the Free Video started to work (after page refresh). Video works fine on YouTube and Twitch. - <<Technical section.>>

{Kinda a major bummer that I've got to go off site to view GB content. Seems SUS that corp overlords are trying to save on hosting costs which I could understand if it wasn't for the whole premium membership thing that's supposed to cover stuff like that and I dunno.. keeping people employed. So much hate for Fandumb.} - <<Cranky old man section.>>

Thanks Rorie, Much love to you. Frustration/venom for your corporation.

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Hoping this doesn't ruin video bomb or the LG app...

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The new video player not having an option for Airplay on iOS is a real bummer. I can still do it from the download file, but is this something that will be fixed?

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@rorie: That seems to have fixed it. Thank you!

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Hey @rorie thanks for working with the community on this! Curious as to the progress of being able to "continue where left off" is at?

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Also, layout is a tad wonky on w11/10, the time display is slightly weird, like the image

Thanks again for your help! I'm sure there's a bunch to consider right now.