Dtube hit and miss. Update from @heimindanger don't use subtitles!
Update from @heimindanger
@heimindanger · 13 hours ago
Yep remove the subtitles, it will work then Im sure
None of my videos work :( Maybe it is the subtitles?
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Watching videos on Dtube has not been working for me since a couple of days or have been painfully slow. I didn't see any explanation on @Dtube's blog. While some load fast and playback fine I think they do because they are the smaller ones or are just a few minutes long.
Quality is not great either which has been tested by @sanjeevm DTube vs Viewly : Lets go for the one which is better but this is strange since Dtube should not transcode your video.
BitChute
Unfortunately @BitChute is not very active on Steemit but he responded very quickly on my requests and comments on Gab. BitChute works fine and videos load very fast and it worked great from the beginning. Bitchute will transcode your video however unlike Dtube so it might be good for some but bad for others. It threw away my subtitles I had added in a web compatible way. More on that in the subtitle section.
Viewly
While Viewly's quality is supposed to be better than Dtube's Viewly is also rather slow at the moment unfortunately. I am trying to view this video Introducing Steemit to strangers right now but as it won't load it won't get my upvote because I can't rate it! Too bad, it looked interesting.
Safari and other woes
Safari is not a very compatible browser. I couldn't upload JPG or PNG thumbnail it gave an IPFS TypeError after searching for a long time it occured it might be the browser. Switched to Chrome and problem solved yay! Uploading video in Safari went great. In contrast with BitChute where Safari won't be able to pick video files; they are grayed out.
Safari cannot pick videos to upload
Chrome works fine
As you can see I downloaded some recommendations by @film-trail!
Dtube tagging woes
If you upload a video on the Dtube site Dtube.video you might be surprised that the #tags you added are preceded by the string (word) "dtube-" ! This means that #film becomes #dtube-film. Not what you might expect. I respect that dtube would add the tag #dtube but not at the expense of my own 5 tags I'm allowed to use! Dtube will just kick your last #tag out and replace it with #dtube at the beginning which is the main tag!
No sorry if it were in the rules ok but doing this sneakily..wtf?!
Subtitles
Subtitles are great for learning languages. I learned a few through watching cartoons, documentaries and films as a kid. All foreign films are subtitled in the Netherlands but in the last 10 years they have been overdubbing films for kids and teens as well which I condsider to be a bad thing. The original always sounds best and it is hard to view any foreign film in it's original language on TV in the Czech Republic. Boo!
So unfortunately you can't enjoy the famous Arabela TV series with English subtitles just yet but I've been working stubbornly at it! Which is the real reason for this write up actually.
This post was written in Typora using its Night Mode theme, very clean and easy to read. Thanks to A Brief Overview of a few Markdown Editors I like it a lot!
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