[tra3]

Slightly offtopic. Is there a way to watch youtube videos across different devices while preserving video location?

Use case: start watching conference videos or lectures on my phone, then move to the laptop then continue on the tablet, then back to the computer. Similarly to the way iBooks transparently preserves and syncs reading position across devices.

[Klathmon]

Use the website or first-party clients, it does that if you are logged in.

(not trying to be snarky, if you tend to use 3rd party clients you might not know)

[tra3]

Hmm.. I must be doing something wrong then. Logged in on my Chrome on Mac, watched a video, paused it. Closed tab, reloaded tab. The video plays from the beginning. Opened the same video on my iPhone, official youtube app. Plays from the beginning as well.

I guess I need to investigate this further. I didn't realize official google apps support this functionality because it's never worked for me. Thanks for mentioning it.

[orizens]

hi @tra3 currently, Echoes doesn't support playing a video from where it was recently paused. if more users request it - i'll add it.

[tra3]

That would be fantastic. Youtube API provides this information so it's definitely possible.

[tomcam]

Are you logged in to a Google/YouTube account?

[tra3]

I sure am. In fact, I just logged in from a completely clean browser (Safari, that I dont use on this machine, so no adblock or third party scripts). When looking at a thumbnail of a previously viewed video I see the "progress bar" that indicates where I left off, but clicking on it, doesn't resume the video. It starts it from the beginning.

[NTripleOne]

Whether it actually wants to work or not is another thing. Video place-saving seems to only work on longer videos - I think the shortest video I've seen that's saved my position was about 16 minutes long - and even then it can still just not work, just like how youtube constantly forgets my "watched" videos.