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@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?

@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.

@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.

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.

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!

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.

@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.

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.

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.

<param name="initParams" value="...,starttime=60"/>

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.

<iframe src=".../player?w=512&h=288#time=06m34s" frameBorder="0" scrolling="no" ></iframe>

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.