misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoSome veteran YouTube staff think Shorts might ruin YouTubewww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square250fedilinkarrow-up1914arrow-down124
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minus-squarevisor841@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·1 year ago You can’t move around in them, it’s either play or pause and repeat, which sucks (as shorts don’t have to be short…) Oddly enough, this seems to be a desktop limitation. I can scrub backwards and forwards just fine on my phone.
minus-squareCmdrShepard@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 year agoHopefully desktop PC hardware will become powerful enough to gain the ability to skip around in 30 second videos someday. I think I read that they expect them to be at parity with smartphone hardware in the next decade or two.
minus-squareSnipingNinja@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThey don’t even need a seek bar, just support arrow keys
Oddly enough, this seems to be a desktop limitation. I can scrub backwards and forwards just fine on my phone.
Hopefully desktop PC hardware will become powerful enough to gain the ability to skip around in 30 second videos someday. I think I read that they expect them to be at parity with smartphone hardware in the next decade or two.
They don’t even need a seek bar, just support arrow keys