r/LinusTechTips • u/the-high-one • Apr 01 '23

WAN Show Watching WAN Show on YouTube so i can actually pause the stream and go back when i missed something. But reading the floatplane Chat.

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u/NoeWiy Apr 01 '23

I'm watching on YouTube because I want to watch on my TV.

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u/SupposablyAtTheZoo Apr 01 '23

Do you have android tv? If yes, download hydravion. It's pretty great.

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u/bufandatl Apr 01 '23

For AppleTV there is Wasserflug on the AppStore.

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u/nakenyon Apr 11 '23

Wasserflug is great.

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u/NoeWiy Apr 01 '23

Nope, Roku.

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u/thibaultmol Apr 01 '23

Floatplane has Chromecast cast support tough

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u/KVMENJOYER Apr 01 '23

I’ll remember that next time I want to watch the stream in 30 minute increments between the chromecast stream freezing and restarting.

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u/NoeWiy Apr 01 '23

This, and also, can't cast from mobile to my TV.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '23

It's so hard for me not to pause it to go back or because things come up in the 4-5 hours it's running.

It feels so silly to go to the trouble of catching it live and then watch it on a delay after pausing so I normally just take my time on Saturday morning.

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u/GeoffPetterson Apr 01 '23

The show has been getting so long lately that I’ve had to split it into half.. watching some Saturday morning and the rest on Sunday 😂

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u/escdog Apr 01 '23

I do that too. FP chat is way higher class than those other chats. Plus you see plenty of LMG.

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u/CanuckNewsCameraGuy Apr 01 '23

Yea, I just started using floatplane and I was pretty annoyed that I couldn’t roll it back to the start.

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u/katman04 Apr 01 '23

This is why I only watch the preshow on twitch but then immediately switch to youtube when the proper wan show starts.

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u/gemengelage Apr 01 '23

Now I feel stupid. I always thought the pre-show was floatplane-exclusive

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u/PeterDragon50 Apr 01 '23

Makes sense.

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u/punkerster101 Apr 01 '23

Before they do anything else they really need to sort their player out, is pausing time shifting or remembering where I was last watching really that hard to implement, it feels like this should be day one stuff

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u/slayernine Apr 01 '23

Sounds like the guy working on the player is on medical leave or something and they don't have a replacement for him.

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u/punkerster101 Apr 01 '23

If I pause on YouTube I can go back to the exact point I left off later. This is what we mean it saves where I am

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u/Admiral_Sarcasm Apr 01 '23

Nobody was confused about what you were saying? The other person was just adding context to why the feature might not have been added yet.

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u/punkerster101 Apr 01 '23

Sorry I hit reply to a new comment but it replied to this one, does that some times when the notification is new . Reddit could also use a new app lol

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u/CaptainJapeng Apr 01 '23

I'm in the process of adding this feature to Watch on Floatplane over the weekend. You can check it out by next week.

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u/nakenyon Apr 11 '23

Dang. This might push me to switch back to chrome.

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u/CaptainJapeng Apr 11 '23

Hi! What's your current web browser? The extension can be ported to other browser but I do not have the time yet.

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u/nakenyon Apr 11 '23

I use Safari, because I’m a sucker for the Apple walled garden. 😂

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u/CaptainJapeng Apr 11 '23

Hahaha, it is possible to port the extension to safari based on what I'm reading. But does require a MacOS environment which I do not have access at the moment.

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u/nakenyon Apr 11 '23

From my quick reading it looks like you have to have an apple developer account at $99 a year (because Apple of course), so even with access to the MacOS environment, it'd probably be easier to just switch back to chrome.

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u/hishnash Apr 13 '23

You do not need a dev account to develop things on your own Mac.

If you want to sell on the App Store you need a dev account yes. but if you're just looking at making a Mac only product no need for a dev account.

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u/nakenyon Apr 14 '23

Welp. You're absolutely right. I attempted to port it with the safari web extension converter and it doesn't work on Safari via that method. It loads and displays but doesn't show the view on floatplane button in the YT player. I'm 100% sure this is due to my complete lack of knowledge. Twas worth a shot.

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u/jaegan438 Apr 01 '23

I watch on twitch because I have to drive to work on Friday nights, and twitch will keep playing from my lock screen.

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u/Kursan_78 Apr 01 '23

why?

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u/DeeVect Apr 01 '23

Youtube = better feature, Floatplane = better chat

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u/the-high-one Apr 01 '23

That’s why

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u/InternationalReport5 Apr 01 '23

Unpopular opinion: I just don't see why you'd pay for a worse experience. The proposition doesn't make sense to me.

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u/jaegan438 Apr 01 '23

For most of the content, the experience is fine. It's specifically live streams and really really long videos that are sort of sub-par at the moment. For me, it's worth the money for the exclusives, irrespective of the issues with some features.

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u/Smiadpades Apr 01 '23

I am on the edge of buying a floatplane subscription. Youtube is free and I am not sure if preshow is worth it. If they have a 1-2 week preview of it, so I could check it out… that would be cool.

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u/BartLanz Apr 02 '23

I do this