Channel 9 - Discussions by Cara9

Site Feedback - Fullscreen overlays snapped app

Cara — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:10:10 GMT

Thanks for the feedback, we will look into it and see if anything can be done.

Site Feedback - Problems with quicks edits after new thread

Cara — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:15:31 GMT

@androidi: I'd like to try to repro this - what browser are you using?

Site Feedback - Video Player Size

Cara — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:57:42 GMT

@EmanuelFloripa: It's not available for every single video but a lot of them have the option of using Progressive instead of Smooth Streaming which can improve the resolution if you have low bandwidth. If you click the "format" button below a video, you can choose the Progressive option and see if that results in better video resolution.

Site Feedback - Subtitles in videos needed!

Cara — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:52:43 GMT

@Niner556327: We added captions support for our videos in both the HTML5 and Silverlight players just a few weeks ago. We are now going to encourage our content teams to start creating caption files for their videos so hopefully you should start seeing captions appear soon. I have just reposted a captions test post so you can see how it will work. We would love to hear any feedback you may have on it!

Site Feedback - Video Player Size

Cara — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:04:08 GMT

Thanks for letting us know, this is already on our list of to-do's!

Coffeehouse - Dont you just hate spam -looks down the coffee house thread page-

Cara — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 05:37:59 GMT

@Ian2: Yep Mine was broken the other day so I grabbed what was handy.

@GoddersUK: That's interesting.. do you ever see the "Mark as Spam" button or do they all say "Marked as Spam"? I wonder if that one was just hit by mistake or if there's a bug.

@evildictaitor: Oh! I didn't realize you had Mod permissions, I was testing the "Mark as Spam" button instead of the "Remove" button. I'll look into that one.

Coffeehouse - Dont you just hate spam -looks down the coffee house thread page-

Cara — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 20:36:04 GMT

@evildictaitor: What happens when you click the spam button for that person? Does it just do nothing or is the button not there, etc?

Coffeehouse - Dont you just hate spam -looks down the coffee house thread page-

Cara — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 19:31:53 GMT

@Dr Herbie: We made the change to Mod permissions to allow you to delete threads. It might be live now if you want to give it a try, otherwise it'll be up next time we do an update.

Site Feedback - Editing user profile error

Cara — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 20:00:54 GMT

@FredrikNilsson: I tried your twitter handle in dev and it works for me. If I put a space before or after, it fails though such as "fredriknilsson_ " or " fredriknilsson_". Can you verify that there are no extra spaces when you are putting in in?

Site Feedback - Editing user profile error

Cara — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:36:15 GMT

I will check it out, thanks for letting us know!

Site Feedback - Profile/Queue page performance

Cara — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:53:54 GMT

@devlife3: We can look into it. To help us repro the problem - about how many videos do you have in your queue at a time?

Site Feedback - Subtitles in videos needed!

Cara — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:08:06 GMT

@giangreco: @Deafie: Thanks for your feedback, it really helps us to know what our user's priorities are. I can't give an absolute timeframe for when this will be ready to go but we are progressing on it. I'm not sure if you noticed but we upgraded our player recently to the newest framework of the SMF player which has better support for captions. Technically, the Silverlight player now supports captions but there are a few things left to do - 1. We need to add the support to the backend for our content teams to be able to associate a caption file. 2. We need to get the process going so that we are creating caption files for our videos going forward. 3. We need to update our html5 player to support captions as well. Hopefully it helps you to know that we are working on it, there are just a lot of little details to take care of to actually get it running.

Site Feedback - Changing the Name Under the Avatar

Cara — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:13:11 GMT

@Zueuk: If just you want to change the LiveID that is associated with your account and keep your username, set up a temporary new account with the LiveID that you want to keep and send us an email with both Usernames letting us know which you want to keep. We can move your LiveID association from the temporary account back to the old account and delete the temporary account. Hope that makes sense.

Site Feedback - Changing the Name Under the Avatar

Cara — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:10:07 GMT

Display Name, I believe, is pretty much legacy from the last version of the website. We really only use Username on this version except on a user's profile page. We've built the functionality to allow users to change their own username but it hasn't been pushed up live yet. There was a bit of a snag last week - we had to make it work with VS Achievements which is tied to username but that was fixed so I would expect it to be pushed up live soon. In the meantime, you can email us with your old username and what you would like it to be changed to.

Site Feedback - Subtitles in videos needed!

Cara — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:59:23 GMT

Yes, we are working on adding CC/subtitles to the videos. Would that be enough or do you prefer transcripts along with the videos? Thank you for the feedback!

Site Feedback - CSS media queries

Cara — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:55:33 GMT

We have been talking about this for a while and we discussed it again because of your post. We're not sure exactly how we're going to implement this yet but we will do something.

Site Feedback - How to view queued videos?

Cara — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:47:37 GMT

@vbaderks: There was a little bug in there that didn't show the Queue tab if you didn't have any previous comments or posts. The fix should be pushed up later today - thanks for letting us know.

Site Feedback - Silverlight Videos

Cara — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:47:38 GMT

You can choose to use the html5 video player if you want. Click "Profile" up at the top of the page near the "Sign Out" link. From the Profile page click "edit profile" and under "Site Settings" there is a "Video Playback Preference" dropdown list. If you change it to HTML5 and click "Save", then as long as you're signed in to Channel 9, any video you watch will attempt to use the html5 player first. It'll fall back to Silverlight only if we don't have an html5-compatible video available (ie: if we only have wmv or if you're using Firefox and we only have wmv or mp4). You can also just click the "format" button below any video to try all of the different formats (smooth streaming should have less buffering than progressive). Let me know if any of the other formats help you.

Site Feedback - initParams for the channel 9 player to specify initial time offset?

Cara — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:07:58 GMT

We do it with javascript currently. Once the video is initialized, we look for #time in the url or a cookie (if you have one) and use a js call to seek to the position. We do it this way because then we only need one method of doing so and we can use it for both the silverlight and html5 player. I think there is an initparam you can add if you're using the Silverlight embed code called starttime but you'd have to convert 06m24s into seconds to do it.

I can make it work for you with our iframe embed code though. There was a little check in there that was preventing it from working but once we push up this code change (should be sometime this week), you'll be able to add the #time= to the iframe embed url.

Site Feedback - @reply to post:

Cara — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 02:16:16 GMT

That was my mistake, sorry. I changed the title on the reply to link when I was working on a different feature, not realizing that it was being used by the script that generates the reply to name when you click the button. I guess this would be an example of the one drawback of unobtrusive javascript! Geoff fixed the reply to code to generate the name from elsewhere already so I think we're just waiting for it to be pushed to production.

Site Feedback - System errors sometimes when editing

Cara — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:18:08 GMT

This is interesting! Not the system error so much but the "self-reminderwhy" thing. I can repro it in dev so I'll check it out and see if I can fix

Coffeehouse - Build - The Discussion

Cara — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:45:44 GMT

1 hour ago,PerfectPhase wrote
Anyone know what the '+ add all videos to queue' option on the video pages does? Is there a download manger somewhere or a private favourites/playlist?

There is not currently a download manager or favorites list but we have been working on a personal queue feature like Hulu or Netflix. Looks like parts of it got accidentally exposed this morning with all of the Build updates happening.

Site Feedback - Language Filter Issue?

Cara — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:22:30 GMT

They must've forgotten to change the language of the post when it was first published. It seems like it's fixed now though, right?

Site Feedback - DOWNLOAD SLIDES TO PDC 2100 BROKEN

Cara — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 18:00:00 GMT

Can you give us an example of a session w/slides in PDC 2010 that isn't working? I looked at a few randomly but don't see any w/slides.

Coffeehouse - Best HTML/JS book?

Cara — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:35:46 GMT

This book changed my life: Designing With Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman. I'm not sure why it has "design" in the title since it doesn't really deal with design at all - it's all about html + css and web standards.