Paused videos resume when scrolling through pages

[companyhen]

This is mostly a problem in the what are you listening to thread, if I’m checking out videos and then pause one and move on to the next, when I scroll up or down on that bar thing to get to new “pages” (even though its just continuous but you get what I’m saying) it will resume every single paused video.

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

I think we would need some special magical handling in the uncloaker here @eviltrout if we were to fix this

[eviltrout (Robin Ward)]

I can’t seem to reproduce this one. If I visit that topic, pause a video, then scroll either via the scroll bar (or the topic timeline on the right) it stays paused.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

I can repro. Start a video, pause, then scroll up to load more of the topic. It is definitely annoying.

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

I thought @eviltrout determined that the fix to this was extra complicated in another topic?

[gerhard (Gerhard Schlager)]

Do you mean this?

Embedded YouTube videos stop playing when you scroll up

I have spent a lot of time this afternoon on this issue and I feel like this issue might not be fixable unless someone else has a brilliant idea. The problem is in the virtual DOM with prepending (scrolling up). In this case, you are adding a bunch of elements (posts) to the beginning of an array. When the virtual DOM does its diff, it notices the element with the youtube <iframe> is not in the same place, so it removes and re-adds it later. This causes the youtube player to refresh the iframe,…

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

Yeah I am closing this due to

We have easily spent a week of engineering on this annoying bug and still can not resolve it.