Level 1
Chromecast support?
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Sep 25, 2015
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Level 59
New Updates to the Video Player
Hi, all -
I'm experimenting with switching the Laracasts video hosting over to Wistia. Right now, it's only active for one video on the site. Have a look:
https://laracasts.com/series/real-time-laravel-with-socket-io/episodes/1
A few fun new things to take note of:
- Significantly better mobile support.
- Right-click on the video player to choose from multiple resolutions, rather than simply SD/HD (like I had before).
- You'll see an automatic dimmer, when you start watching a video.
- We now remember where you left off in a video. Try fast-forwarding to some section of the video, and then reloading the page. It'll offer to continue where you last left off. (Like this)
- Finally, not related to Wistia, but Laracasts now remembers your playback speed across all video on the site. So you only have to update it once now, rather than for every video.
Level 1
That's cool!
Level 88
That would be a nice update for Laracasts! Cool stuff Jeffrey
Level 12
Awesome!!!
Level 13
Nice, but the download button will come back? (used for download and play offline)
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Level 41
Jeffrey said the download button will be back very soon.
Level 26
Could be just me, but it's not playing on my iPad2. Will have to update to ios9 and try again.
Please don't make me buy a new iPad, @JeffreyWay ;)
Edit: Nope, doesn't work :(
Level 2
Still not working on Ubuntu Chromium (previous videos didn't either, I always just downloaded the video)
Level 50
Yay - hitting the spacebar starts/stops the video in my FF, previously that would trigger fullscreen on/off :-) I noticed it stutters a lot at the start of playing - I think it's hitting something in ublock origin as it's little counter of blocked things begins to spin like a pinball machine ;-)
Level 3
Sounds good!, chromecast support would be nice :D
Level 38
Only problem I'm seeing right now is I'm not being able to Airplay from my computer. Airplay wasn't really there before either but I could right click, click "enter fullscreen" and get OSX built in controls and airplay from there :) Most of the time I'm doing that from my iPhone or iPad though so not a huge problem.
Level 17
I'd be really interested to hear how it works out for you in terms of pricing, which was the one thing that put me off Wistia (compared to Vimeo). In particular, I worry about the cost of free ("sample") videos with a large number of plays.
Level 53
There's a bug with the video speed menu, it shows {{ }}x instead of the number.(there's a photo in the comments under the video)
Also, the screen goes darker (some kind of CSS overlay like a modal box is opened) when you play a video so you have to click on the side to remove it. I am guessing that's intended behavior.
I noticed that the completed box is not checked when the video finishes. (no idea if it's a site wide bug or just that one video)
Level 41
I had that "x" in the video speed earlier. A page refresh fixed it for me.
Level 11
@jjosephs the videos not playing is a codec problem for sure. I have use chromium, firefox, opera and chrome without problems. Make sure you've installed the "ugly" gstreamer plugins and try again. If that doesn't work make sure chromium is not blocking the plugins in chrome://plugins.
Level 6
The new player is great. But I miss some details. It doesn't display the total duration time and if you mouseover the bar, it doesn't show the time where your cursor is.
Level 47
Works amazing across my platforms now. But only real issue before was hit and miss on mobile. So maybe a few more videos before deciding?
Level 2
@carkis I'm in no hurry to fix flash. Anything urgent I just switch to Firefox.
Level 8
with Firefox on Win7, it reachs the 2:57 mark and it freezes the image, and can only hear sound but no video, and it says "loading" on the top left..
Level 2
@JeffreyWay Download is still missing on the whole vue series :-( Overall, I do prefer the old player as well.
Level 53
The download button might come back together with the new website design coming very soon™.
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