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Watch Videos in Synch with Fellow iOS Users (Video)
This video is about Dr. Saeed Darvish-Kazem and Dr. Michael Pazaratz, two MDs from Canada, who came up with a free iOS app called WeMesh that lets you share video content with iOS-owning friends in real time. You see the video and so does your friend. more or less simultaneously. Cat videos and 90s music are two categories the doctors say are especially popular on WeMesh, which only works with YouTube at the moment, a shortcoming they hope to change in the near future. NOTE: If you're on the Slashdot main page and click the 'Read' link below this paragraph, the video will autoplay.
I can't think of all that many times when this would be useful socially. Such a thing could be useful in a classroom setting if for some reason the instructor doesn't have a projector and wants the students to be done with a video lesson at the same time, but for that to work best some form of central control (to force the video to load and to force the video to the foreground) would be necessary, and would still need students to use their headphones and to pay attention.
So, what is this for?
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Thanks for the warning, you will see the drastic reduction in hits for such links from Chrome. You will create a policy of not linking to any site that has auto play video. Also why do you include it directly in read? Can't you just put up a link and say click to play?
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
If you're on the Slashdot main page and click the 'Read' link below this paragraph, the video will autoplay.
This is exactly why I use Flashblock.
NOTE: If you're on the Slashdot main page and click the 'Read' link below this paragraph, the video will autoplay.
Why? Slashdot is already having multiple daily outages. When users are allready cheesed off, autoplayiing a video is not a smart move.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
AUTOPLAY? REALLY!?
Come on now, that is a huge pain in the ass! I thought we all agreed to that! You couldn't have been bothered to remove it? For that matter, the article itself has a severe spelling and grammar flaw. That reeks of laziness! REEKS , I tell you. How completely and utterly disappointing.
"Set a man a fire, he'll be warm for the rest of the night. Set a man afire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
I was looking hard for a Dice link, but couldn't find it. What's up with that? There's got to be a Dice angle, right?
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
I won't be quick to dismiss this. One of the downsides of watching internet videos is that you lose out on some of the shared viewing experience. Meanwhile the shared communication experience (voice, Twitter, whatever) is nearing full strength. It would make sense to take advantage of that. There's value in seeing things at once, as a group.
Another example is with online-only shows like House of Cards. It's an excellent show and binge watching is great. But I think Netflix may be missing out on a lot of word of mouth that might come with a shared viewing experience. It might have benefited them if, for example, they had a countdown for each individual episode to become available (with unlimited streaming after), perhaps on a more traditional broadcast schedule. It might improve water cooler discussions.
I'm guessing maybe not even a short distance relationship.
I dated a woman in another city and can remember spending hours on the phone with her and occasionally even watching a TV program with her all while on the phone (and this was 25+ years ago when long distance actually cost money).
For what it's worth, it might be kind of fun to have this kind of real-time social component with Netflix streamed movies, either with people you knew or with other people who liked the same shows or movies.
the lips to the audio. Unless I'm watching a DVD my lipsync is off maybe 50% of the time. Sometimes by a lot. I don't know if it's the source, the cable, my router (I have Uverse, my TV comes through my router), my DVR, my TV, or some combination.
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They misspelled 'ought to play'. Evidently, there is no support for HTML5 video yet.
Have gnu, will travel.
Have gnu, will travel.
I'm willing to bet a significant percentage of the videos shared with this new app will include penises.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I watch movies and stuff with friends all the time. We usually get on skype in a group call and someone counts off and everyone does their best to hit play at the same time. This is way better. Wish it worked on PC or at least Android.
Iâ(TM)m so amazed at a pair of MDs ability to multicast video. Wow.
I have explained more than once to more than one Slashdotmedia management person that autoplay videos were the work of the devil. The leader of the autoplay cabal (obviously) disagrees.
Ever single person who works directly on Slashdot has an opinion about autoplay videos that is somewhere between dislike and raw hatred. One editor sent a 1665 word plea to kill autoplay videos up the chain of command, and yesterday I growled like an angry dog at the boss person who oversees Slashdot. The guy has always seemed pretty smart to me, but for some reason he is determined to inflict autoplay videos on us despite our ongoing, deepening displeasure.
I've been using Syncplay for quite a while, lets you use your own media player, works on the big three. Handles pausing, seeking etc. It's a joy to watch things with people in other countries, especially when used along side voice communication - especially if it's your sweetheart (sigh) So the same functionality on mobile platforms? pretty awesome! I expect such functionality will be part of social media sites in the near future.
what browser do you use?
Iceweasel 24.8.1 (Firefox on Debian). No Flash, but it works fine with YouTube and all the porn sites that support HTML5.
Have gnu, will travel.