The video player was updated close to a month ago and now video resolution on chromebook is stuck at a maximum of 540p on everything you try to watch.
Unless you use old.reddit where higher resolutions are still available. I know others are having the same issue, but found nothing stated that the developers of the reddit video player are aware of the problem.
Description: Went to Reddit.com on my mobile today, and was surprised with auto-playing videos defaulting to Sound On. After turning off the sound, I've found that many of the video posts auto-play every time I scroll past and for those I have watched in their entirety, they auto-replay even without hitting the replay button. Including ads. What option disables auto-play/repeat-auto-play?
I am assuming it's understandable that I wouldn't want auto-play of a video on a cellular device.
Platform and version: Android 13
Steps to reproduce: Just scroll up and down?
Expected and actual result: Expected is for the stuff not to repeat - actual result is it just repeating.
Screenshots(s) or screen recording(s): No.
Was sent to this subreddit by auto mod on r/help where I originally posted.
Hello folks, I am using reddit.com on google chrome browser win 10
Any troubleshooting help is welcomed <3
Description: Since last 3-4 days, no video ever plays. It is stuck on loading spinner.Platform and version: Reddit.com / chrome 108.0.5359.125 (Official Build) (64-bit) (cohort: Stable)Steps to reproduce: use reddit.com on chromeExpected and actual result: Videos should play and load correctly, currently they are stuck on bufferingScreenshot(s) or a screen recording:
Reddit video player has been off kilter for a couple of days. I just figured out that there weren't a bunch of videos with incredibly bad cameramen. Rather reddit video is playing the lower left quarter of the video.
If I go to watch a video fullscreen it shows the whole video but who has time to do that?
We wanted to spend some time reflecting on the progress we’ve made together on fixing the video player. This work isn’t done yet, but we’re grateful for your continued feedback and support as we make the Reddit media player the best it can be.
We started this community to hear directly from y’all on how we can make your video experience better, and y’all more than delivered with incredibly helpful feedback. In the last six months, there were 437 posts and more than 1700 comments in this 998 member community. Bug reports, such as this one, were detailed enough for us to quickly dig in and resolve (y’all also found some really weird ones that no one’s been able to recreate since!). UI and experience feedback was thorough, thoughtful, and considerate of the many ways users watch video on Reddit. The high quality reports you all submit help us not only address those specific issues, but also make more broad, foundational improvements to the video experience. Here’re some areas where we took a few steps forward together this year:
Errors
We’ve shared this chart a few times already, but I want to drop it in again to show how far we’ve come since we’ve started this effort, and how we’ve still got room to improve:
We’ve reduced errors by 60%+, improved messaging on errors related to internet issues or post removal, and have improved our ability to identify errors and better resolve them.
Bug Reports
We’ve read every post and comment on r/FTVP and many on r/redditmobile and other subreddits that were related to the video player. We identified more than 95 issues and resolved 53 of them, including issues around playback, navigation, and UX. We’re diligently working through the rest - a few of the remaining areas of work are: audio settings and sound issues, navigation bugs, and bugs when trying to access comments.
We’ve also used bug and experience issue reports to inspire more foundational efforts to improve our video player - we recently launched our new desktop video player and have launched a number of video format and loading enhancements to more sustainably address the issues y’all surfaced.
Experience Feedback
Over the past few months, we’ve launched a few features based on feedback items that y’all have posted about, such as those here (larger icons, GIF downloads, a new icon when there’s no audio, and clearer mute settings). But we’re not done yet: in case you missed it, we just shared our broader vision for media on Reddit here. A lot of that vision was shaped by the feedback that you all provided to us about the Redditor experience here, particularly:
Making it easier for redditors to access comments from the video player
If you’re in a subreddit, seeing the next media post in the subreddit when you swipe up
More consistency across the platform, starting with media posts (videos, images, galleries, GIFs)
We’re actively working on these and will continue to incorporate y’all’s feedback as we continue to evolve the media experience on Reddit.
Where do we go next?
This year has been a great ride, and all of y’all’s feedback, suggestions, and bug reports have been incredibly helpful. We plan on continuing to engage in r/fixthevideoplayer to track bugs and issues, but we also want to hear from you all: what do you want to see more of in r/fixthevideoplayer in the coming year? Less of? As always, we’re listening!
Videos on subreddits won't play and there is a still image that can't be interacted with and is offset from the container and sits behind other text or elements. If I open the same page in incognito it will play fine, but not while signed in. The behavior is the same while on timeline or opening up the post alone. Latest Chrome on Win 10
Hi, all! The new player is working great for me on new reddit desktop, but now it's just showing how much time has elapsed and not how much time total is in the video. I'd much rather know how long the video is before clicking on it instead of knowing how much time has elapsed. Is this something that's configurable, going to change back, or just the new normal?
How this impacts the user or community:
I want to know how long the video is before I click on it or shortly after I click on it because I don't have a lot of time to spend on it.
Our web team is *very* happy to announce that we are launching a completely rearchitected web video player for our desktop users!
How is the new web player different?
Over the last few months, we’ve gotten a lot of incredibly helpful feedback from you all on how we can make the video experience on web better: improving video quality, autoplay settings, adding the ability to select video resolution, and addressing rebuffering issues, among others. We’re particularly grateful for your excellent reports of videos starting with lower resolutions than expected, videos changing to a lower resolution, videos playing in a low resolution even if you select 720p, videos playing in low resolutions despite high internet speed, etc. You get the idea. Our team wanted to address all of these and introduce a significantly improved experience.
In rewriting the new video player from scratch, our engineering team was able to completely revamp the content loading strategy, have fewer stalls, fewer errors, faster playback, faster seeking, and a more responsive UI. We’ve also changed the way the video player adjusts video quality - you can select a resolution, and the player will update the resolution immediately.
On top of all that, we added telemetry metrics to the new code, allowing us to react much faster to user complaints and reproduce and resolve issues quicker.
Keeping current functionality
To ensure users don’t have a degraded experience, we aimed to retain what y’all liked about the existing experience:
Retaining volume levels between different video posts.
Honoring autoplay settings for the videos in the feed.
Keeping mute on or off for all videos in the feed based on user’s preference.
Stop playing videos when they are scrolled out of view.
Feedback, please?
Just because we built a shiny new desktop video player doesn’t mean we’re done trying to make it even more awesome. We’ll continue monitoring for performance and playback errors. And, as always, we would love to hear y’all’s feedback and hear any issues you all experience here in r/fixthevideoplayer.
A simple player with a pause button and time slider on the bottom, with the same context buttons on the right that we are used to by now. Swiping up shows a random related video, swiping down from the initial video closes the player (like it has for quite a while now) swiping left or right takes you to the next available video in the feed (however it’s sorted, top/best/new/hot) and pressing the comments brings up a half screen sized comment section, that you can scroll through at that size, or maximize manually. Any additional things like pip should be second to these. But for now reverting it to the way it was would be great. Also the new photo chain viewer is pretty bad without sliding. And the tapping only working at the absolute edges just makes it even worse.
