Comment by capskinfan on 27/06/2022 at 16:18 UTC

1146 upvotes, 8 direct replies (showing 8)

View submission: Let’s Talk About the Video Player

Specifically:

1. Videos should not go full screen without explicit user action (tapping a Fullscreen button). Tapping just the play button or comment button doesn't count.

2. Videos should not advance to a different video without user action.

2a. The action to advance to a different video should be unique. For example, if I'm in a view with the video playing at the top, and the comments below, a swipe down of the separator hides the comments and makes the video full screen. A swipe up should bring back the comments, not change to the next video.

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Comment by ecafyelims at 27/06/2022 at 16:52 UTC

362 upvotes, 7 direct replies

3 Default videos to mute

Comment by riasthebestgirl at 27/06/2022 at 17:47 UTC

111 upvotes, 4 direct replies

3. Scrolling down when in full screen should **NOT** go to the next video. This is not TikTok or something. I want to move forward on my front page, not on the subreddit on which the video that I tapped on was posted on

Comment by such084 at 27/06/2022 at 18:22 UTC

41 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Thank you for the constructive note, it’s very helpful. If you don’t mind also sharing in r/fixthevideoplayer that will help us log and track this feedback.

Comment by Instant-Noods at 27/06/2022 at 16:36 UTC

6 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Hear hear! All these things would make me happy with the video player and I would pretty much consider it fixed and functioning properly if they did these things + get rid of the weird problem where videos don't play if I haven't forced closed the app in a while.

Comment by nolan1971 at 27/06/2022 at 22:24 UTC

4 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Videos should not advance to a different video without user action.

Good god this pisses me off when it happens. And it's mostly news sites that are guilty of it.

Comment by GuyGamer2367 at 28/06/2022 at 00:06 UTC

6 upvotes, 0 direct replies

All that I want is to disable the looping feature so that way I can actually see what happened in that one frame at the end. Also because I don’t wanna hear the exact same 5 second clip of a guy saying ‘Hamburger’ over and over again while reading the comments. (Yes, I know I can pause the video, but sometimes I’m just to lazy for that.) The looping feature should only be on for gifs by default imo.