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1. slazar+Za[view] [source] 2024-08-14 16:12:34
>>hadisa+(OP)
I'd echo the sentiment that this is amazing, and that a TV guide would be awesome.

I'd also suggest maybe adding the channel names (like the comment you posted here) to the app itself (although i think it's cool when it's unnamed and you get the old-school feeling of channels just being numbers).

Also, I'd love to have permalinks for the channels. Not for the individual videos themselves, but just a link that when sharing would bring somebody else to the same channel you're watching right now.

Another thing, although probably outside your control, is that I use a Firefox extension called "SoundFixer" that I use to force the youtube audio to mono (since a lot of channels are annoying to me using headphones, they pan the audio sources too hard left/right and it's super distracting), but it doesn't seem to work on this website, probably because of the way they're embedded. I don't know if this can be changed somehow, or have a mode to force mono audio (which would be also oldschool like old TVs with one speaker only!). It's probably too niche and hard to do though.

Also I don't seem to find any volume control except mute?

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2. Kiro+3W[view] [source] 2024-08-14 21:19:15
>>slazar+Za
> since a lot of channels are annoying to me using headphones, they pan the audio sources too hard left/right and it's super distracting

I find this interesting. Are you oversensitive? I've never even considered that this could be an issue. Do you experience the same problem with other things like music and games?

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3. eCa+N01[view] [source] 2024-08-14 21:55:12
>>Kiro+3W
Not the parent, but with similar view on panned audio. If it's music where it's done on purpose, no problem. But talking with audio in one ear? I'm out. Not sure why exactly, but it's very jarring.

For me, it's one of the worst audio quality issues a video can have.

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4. opan+B71[view] [source] 2024-08-14 22:49:32
>>eCa+N01
If you have mpv+yt-dlp set up you can fix this with an audio filter to mix to mono.

    mpv --audio-channels=mono 'urlhere'
Somewhat related, I've used

    --vf=lavfi="hflip"
to fix videos which are annoyingly mirrored to avoid copyright. You could also bind these options to keys in mpv to use on the fly. Some videos will only mirror some parts of their footage.

Another fun one I bind in input.conf

    ctrl+shift+r cycle_values video-rotate "90" "180" "270" "0"
Lets me rotate the video. I sometimes also just open a web image in mpv and rotate it like that to avoid tilting my head.

I also have these binds for unbalanced audio, mainly used with 5.1 audio to sound better on headphones or stereo speakers, and the \ bind one seems to make normal stuff slightly louder also, so sometimes I hit it when I don't wanna turn up my speaker knob for one video.

    \ af         toggle lavfi=[dynaudnorm=f=100]

    | af         toggle lavfi=loudnorm
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5. banana+En1[view] [source] 2024-08-15 01:22:09
>>opan+B71
That's super complicated lol. Why not use the browser extension or accessibility feature?
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