- I also made an alternate YouTube player with a different feature set (for sharing/reviewing segments of dance videos)
- https://github.com/Leftium/youloop
Your app gave me some ideas. Here are some ideas your app might use:
- Load video by detecting YouTube ID/URL in clipboard
- Hide YouTube "branding" in paused/thumbnail state. (Mostly to hide "More videos" UI)
- (A-B) looping
- Playback speed controls
- Mute
- Please keep your paws out of my clipboard
- This looks really nice, but... you went so far to remove all the annoying things just to add some annoying notifications... you get about 3 of them per video loaded.
- A feature I would love to see in a YouTube player: better transcript view
- Single click to open transcript
- Transcript not crammed into tiny window in corner
- Often I use the transcript as a navigation tool when (re)viewing a long video. Especially when I want to share a specific part of a video.
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And I found a bug in SkipCut when clicking a FAQ:
- If the video was started (then paused) opening a FAQ starts the video (audio).
- Possibly related? often the browser jumps down the page, so the FAQ I clicked is not visible unless I scroll back up. (Or maybe it is scrolling the FAQ to near the top of the viewport? It's disorienting. If intentional, a smooth scroll animation may help.)
- I just tried it out. This is awesome!
- That sounds like a dream come true. Seriously, YouTube without ads, sponsors, and that endless scroll trap. I need that in my life. Cool name too. Reach out to me on x (@odehahwal) and let me support your launch on PH or anywhere else. Cheers
- How does it work?
- It uses an embed player, like how IMDb or any website uses it. When I added YouTube videos to my website, I observed that ads never show there, so I made it and added a sponsor block too. Now, I can watch videos on any device or share links without anyone installing anything.
- Some videos don't allow embedding though, for example the Formula 1 channel disallow it for seemingly all their videos: https://skipcut.com/watch?v=QGTErgNcpDM
- I also noticed embedded YouTube videos don't seem to play ads. I am planning to make a beat-aware YouTube player, so I was wondering how ads would affect the timing...
17 points by Nina_F 1 day ago | 12 comments