Video Encoding Changes And No More Autoplay Music

Video Encoding Changes And No More Autoplay Music

Admittedly when we first started videos weren’t encoding correctly and it took a while to figure out why and what to do about it. We had this fixed for a while now, but there’s still many videos on the site that are not in the right aspect ratio and unfortunately there was nothing we could do about that automatically since they were already encoded. We’ve gone back and forth about it and about what to do with the distorted videos and we finally landed on a solution, the owner of the video now has the option to resize the video either horizontally or vertically right from their My Videos page. All they need to do is click on the link and it will queue it to be resized. Do you see videos that need to be resized? Send the owner of the video a message and let them know.

This good new feature isn’t without retiring an old one though. For over a year now browsers haven’t been able to autoplay sound so we made the decision to no longer let you choose to autoplay music/bate audio tracks from the profiles since they most likely wouldn’t play in modern browsers.

Audio Changes

When we make changes to the site, sometimes they may seem like they are just superficial changes and doesn’t make sense why change something that works, but we have plans for why we change it in the first place. When we setup favorite playlists, we had to find a video player that supported what we had planned for that as well as what we had planned for the future and changing out all video and audio players to this. Today we’re announcing a new change that can be made thanks to this new player.

Audio playlists are now live. The default playlist is the Audio Bate Tracks, but the new one is simply called Music. You can edit any audio file in your library to change it to the new Music Playlist and both playlists are available from your profile page for others to play whenever they want.

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Play All and Slideshow Changes

We have some exciting new additions to tell you about, first is the addition of a next and previous button to all slideshows. As much as we wanted it to always be there and to always allow you to go back, due to technical limitations with the slider and our lazy loading script, this wasn’t possible, but once the image is loaded, you can now go back and forward if you want to skip or go back over images.

The next update is one that will be affecting other areas in the weeks to come. We have a new video player with new functions. With it we are able to allow you to play all your favorites. In the coming days/weeks we will be replacing all players with this new one and going to be introducing new features along with it.