## Ticket
189: Overall React Lag or Extra Re-renders / Volume slider laggy since v0.48
## The problem
Every redux update results in each mounted component's prop mapping function (the `select` and `perform` stuff) to be recalculated. This is normal per redux, but we do lots of heavy stuff there.
The slider was sending tons of redux update for the Volume and Muted setting.
## Changes
The redux volume/muted setting is just used to restore vjs to the user's setting on the next video, so it doesn't need to be updated immediately/constantly -- vjs keeps it's own video settings. Debounced that action.
* add gdpr support
* only run on production
* testing implementation
* just needs last touches then ready
* ready for merge
* add cookies to sidebar
* hide button when secureprivacy not available
* switch over to loading script as a react hook
* conditionally add secureprivacy script
* save gdpr status on session
* better design
## Why
- No memo required (no transformation).
- `makeSelect*` is an incorrect pattern.
## Changes
- Replaced makeSelectClientSetting with selectClientSetting.
- Remove unused selectShowRepostedContent.
* Exclude default homepage data at compile time
The youtuber IDs alone is pretty huge, and is unused in the `CUSTOM_HOMEPAGE=true` configuration.
* Remove Desktop items and other cleanup
- Moved constants out of the component.
- Remove SIMPLE_SITE check.
- Remove Desktop-only items
* Sidebar: limit subscription and tag section
## Issue
Too slow for huge lists
## Change
Limit to 10 initially, and load everything on "Show more"
* Fix makeSelectThumbnailForUri
- Fix memo
- Expose function to extract directly from claim if client already have it.
* pull out ads into its own file
* final touchup
* pull out lbry volume class
* using curried function
* coming along well
* almost done keyboard shortcuts
* pulling the guts out
* finishing keyboard shortcuts
* coming along well
* running but needs some testing
* almost done but could still use some testing
* all code working with some flow fixes needed
* fixing flow errors
* finishing flow errors
## Issue
85 Add additional GA events
## Approach
Instead of placing analytic calls all over the GUI code (no separation of concerns), try to do it through a redux middleware instead.
## Changes
- Updated GA event and parameter naming after understanding how reporting works.
- Removed unused analytics.
* re enable preload ads
* switch macro to aniview
* point towards test server
* improving documentation
* bugfix and turn skip back on
* only run twenty percent of the time for unauthed users
* allow for embeds
* enable show internal feature
* working prototype
* seems to work well
* bugfix
* review old aniview setup
* change to production channelid
* final touchups
* adding functionality to detect user download speed
* calculating bandwidth speed more intelligently
* saving download speed and updating it every 30s
* all the functionality should be done needs testing
* fix linting
* use a 1mb file for calculating bandwidth
* add optional chaining plugin to babel and get bitrate from texttrack
* allow optional chaining for flow
* ignore flow error
* disable bandwidth checking functionality
* fix flow error
* Fix Floating Player stopping on certain files
* Dont show additional player buttons from markdown and comments
* Fix markdown resizing for the same video playing
* Update changelog
- Reverted #7004 as it ended up preventing the rest of the components from being localized when there is an error. Replaced that with a `setLabel` that simply checks if the component exists before setting the label.
- Fix "Autoplay Next On" not localized on initial load -- it was only localized when the setting changes. It is unfortunate that we need to also set the label in an additional `useEffect` instead of just using vjs events, but so be it.
* recsys wip
better logging
fix floating player popout playing uri bug with recsys
lint
add empty entries to create
use beacon; fire on visibilitychange
cleanup, not record recs if not seen
ifweb recsys beacon
recsys handle embeds, cleanup
use history.listen to trigger events
fix recsys embed bug
bugfix
more default data
cleaner
cleaner
* remove tentative
* disable recsys debug logging
* Dont show countdown on Lists
* Add Repeat icon
* Add Shuffle icon
* Add Replay Icon
* Add Replay Option to autoplayCountdown
* Add Loop Control for Lists
* Add Shuffle control for Lists
* Improve View List Link and Fetch action
* Add Play Button to List page
* Add Shuffle Play Option on List Page and Menus
* Fix Modal Remove Collection I18n
* CSS: Fix Large list titles
* Fix List playback on Floating Player
* Add Theater Mode to its own class and fix bar text display
* Add Play Next VJS component
* Add Play Next Button
* Add Play Previous VJS Component
* Add Play Previous Button
* Add Autoplay Next Button
* Add separate control for autoplay next in list
* Bump redux
* Update CHANGELOG.md
## Issue
6989 console errors and warnings are getting out of hand!
## Notes
This method was previously criticized in 5643. But given that no better solution has been submitted after a long while, nor is there a new solution for doing i18n, I'm reviving it again. It'll be no worse from the status quo.
Despite try-catch being overkill, I think the code-clarity outweighs the performance issues (if any, in the first place). Also, we are only suppressing the error in a very specialized function which even if it fails, will simply be a no-op and the GUI falling back to English.
* raw ingredients done adding functionality
* essentially working just need a cleanup
* almost working with a couple bugs
* almost working but a bug or two
* seems to be working well
* seems to be working well but needs a cleanup
* couple of bug fixes
* basically working now cleaning up
* seems to be working pretty well
* cleanup unnecessary changes
* eslint fixes
* bugfix seek event
* bugfix and andrey fix and better docs
* getting ready to add last piece of functionality
* handle seek events properly
* add dynamic duration to calculate interval properly
* fix lint errors
* last couple changes
* only run watchman with analytics on and on prod
* flow fixes
Co-authored-by: zeppi <jessopb@gmail.com>
Previous:
~~Although it was collecting info for all platforms, the data is only sent for Odysee.~~ Correction: it became enabled for all platform after `master` became Odysee.
New:
Only send out the telemetry for `IS_WEB` or if there's user consent.
## Issue
6366 Recsys Evaluation Telemetry
The recommended list from lighthouse is obtained from `makeSelectRecommendedContentForUri`. This list is further tweaked by the GUI (e.g. move autoplay next item to top, remove blocked content, etc.). Recsys wants the final recommendation list and the clicked index (in exact order), so we need pass these info to the videojs recsys plugin somehow. Also, Recsys wants a recommendation list ID as well as the parent (referrer) ID, we so need to track the clicks and navigation.
## General Approach
- It seems easiest to just spew back the final (displayed) list and all the required info to Redux, and the recsys plugin (or anyone else in the future) can grab it.
- Try to touch few files as possible. The dirty work should all reside in `<RecommendedContent>` only.
## Changes
- `ClaimPreview`: add optional parameters to store an ID of the container that it is in (for this case, it is `ClaimList`) as well as the index within the container.
- When clicked, we store the container ID in the navigation history `state` object.
- For general cases, anyone can check this state from `history.location.state` to know which container referred/navigated to the current page. For the recsys use case, we can use this as the `parentUUID`.
- `ClaimList`: just relay `onClick` and set IDs.
- `RecommendedContent`: now handles the uuid generation (for both parent and child) and stores the data in Redux.
## Issue
6068 Fix "Cumulative Layout Shift" for Core Web Vitals
In Posts, the Comments section appears first while we fetch the MD file. When the MD is fetched, Comments get pushed to the bottom (or shifted up for short posts), hence the red CLS scores.
## Approach
There are too many layers between `<FilePage>` and `<DocumentViewer>` to pass the `loading` state around to hide the Comments section, so just make Comments fade in after a 2s delay.
## Changes
- Posts: Add 2s fade-in delay to Comments.
- Posts: remove the gray placeholder. This improves the score a bit more, and reduces flicker as well. There's already a spinner from `FileRenderInline` to tell the user to be patient.
- Posts: add a minimum 30vh height so that short posts don't get collapsed too much, causing the `FileDetails` and Comments to shift. Small shifts are fine as long as CLS is below 0.1.
## Issue
The loading circle wasn't showing up, causing confusion.
Splitting CSS doesn't seem trivial as there seems to be a huge dependency on the load order. Pretty much similar to what this person is facing https://lihautan.com/css-code-splitting/#the-problem
## Change
This reverts videojs-specific changes from 4d638bcf.
- The `rateChange` event now logs the updated speed,
not just the time at which it occurred.
- The `scrub` now (more) accurately logs the position
it came from before the destination.
- The recsys events get consolidated for logical consistency.
## Issue
When opening a video directly in Chrome Incognito, the video should autoplay (since that's the default Lbry setting), but it doesn't due to browser policy
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-policy-changes
## Changes
- We don't want to forcefully mute the video when `autoplay=true`; we just want to do it when the browser policy is applied.
- Fortunately, there is already an existing code-block for us to check that.
## Test cases
- [x] "Autoplay=Off" should not be affected.
- [x] After manually unmuting, the next autoplayed video should not be muted (this is "user interacted" opening, so the policy allows autoplay)
- [x] If manually muting, the next autoplayed video should retain user's last setting.
## Known issues
- I've seen `error` occasionally being undefined in the `catch` block. In those cases, the solution doesn't work. We could remove `if (player.autoplay() && !player.muted())` and simply just try muting it, but for now it's better to ensure `NotAllowedError` is due to unmuted first before applying the fix.
- This doesn't work for Firefox as there is an explicit "Allow Autoplay" button in the address bar that user needs to click themselves. Applies to all sites.
## Issue
One of the items in 5865 Video shortcut issues
This one is not really an issue, but it would be nice to match what the arrow keys are doing. Also, in slower regions, seeking 10s will almost always end up buffering.
## Changes
- Restore original code for how Volume and Mute is restored.
- Playback rate will be only change that gets "re-restored" in "loadedmetadata".
## Issue
5513: Video-setting persistence broken
## Notes
- Per videojs recommendation, the setting-restoration should be done after the video has been loaded, so the action was moved to `loadedmetadata`. This fixed the volume slider problem, and should have fixed the playbackRate too.
- For playbackRate, there is another special case where it gets reset to 1 (refer to comments in code).
## Issue
Partially closes 3041: Display/hint what keyboard shortcuts are available in videos
(minus the "all shortcuts" overlay -- saving that for another day)
## Issue
5554: Video: loading circle sometimes does not appear until 2nd click
## What's happening
videojs behavior:
(a) A `src` change makes the Play button re-appear.
(b) An `onPlay` (or `play()`) makes the button go away.
Due to the `m3u8` header async fetch (i.e. return is potentially delayed), the initial `onPlay` (which cleared the button) that happened after user clicked Play gets negated by a potentially-delayed `src` change.
# Changes
- Manually hide the play button that is induced by the change in `src`. In the fetch-delay scenario mentioned above, the player continues to be in a 'playing' state anyway.
- But don't hide the button if paused externally (e.g. browser-level)
Restore video loading circle
Looking at a few other files hoping to understand the convention for components, I moved the videojs.scss file to where all CSS related files appear to be in the project.
Also restores the CSS for vjs-overlay which I commented out previously for *some* reason (but I don't know why, and it doesn't seem to make a difference whether I comment it out or not)
Adds custom video.js hls quality selector plugin
This allows the quality selector plugin to stay active and listen for source changes on the player to prevent the need to recreate the player when switching between MP4's and M3U8's
## Issues
5349: Remove theater mode button from player in comments
5519: Theatre mode button doesn't do anything in full screen mode [Odysse/LBRY desktop app]
## Notes
5349: Wanted to hide for 'markdown' as well, but it seems useful for 'markdown' (to clear the screen from Related), so I did not include it.
Continually recreating video.js instance on render is bad.
Instead, persist a single instance, and simply update the source and poster on the existing instance.
I'm a bit wary of adding props to this component due to the 'dispose' call, but I think 'source' and 'claim' will update together, so it shouldn't be an issue?
## Issue
5308: Ability to choose default play speed and theatre mode or regular playback size
## Comments
Initially, I used the local storage, as per 'muted' and 'volume' -- I thought that would be appropriate.
Later, I saw that Theater Mode is already using Client Settings, so I re-did everything to match that.
Also, there is an accompanying commit in lbyr-redux.
## Issue:
5119 "Video: Mobile UI + overlay for keyboard shortcut feedback" was disabled because the feature broke the chromecast button in Android Chrome
4913: Can't slide volume slider in pop out mode
I first tried to handle this at the floating player level, but it was impossible to hack there due to how 'react-draggable' works (it already moved the window before the "move" handler is called, so we can't do much).
Fix by overriding the dragging behavior of the videojs' VolumeBar class by not propagating the event further. It is odd that videojs didn't already do this, since it's SeekBar does stop the propagation.
