Why is owned3d's VOD player so terrible?

RockinInTheZone · 3 months

The "why" doesn't really bother me since I found out about www.youtube.com/joindota

ICarrotU · 3 months

Twitch all the way for me, I live in Southern California, so that may be a factor, but I never have any problems viewing livestreams nor do I have problems (or perhaps as many) with the VoD player. There's always room for improvement but Twitch appears to be much more willing to listen to feedback and make improvements. Not to mention Twitch also appears to be more supportive of their community as a whole with promoting interesting streams and tournaments, while own3d does support JoinDota, which is cool, they've had so many problems for months. Here's to hoping for improvement, though.

PashaB · 3 months

What really bugs me is that this has been a problem for so long. Why haven't they fixed it? They have so many important streams and enough money to fix bugs. Why haven't they? I know if we complained this much about twitch, someone from twitch would come here and actually comment and try to get it fixed. Own3d has horrible community communication and maintenance.

syndikat · 3 months

Indeed, it's really fucking annoying. Thanks for bringing it up!

Edit; I havn't read enough to know if you guys are already aware, but if you pause and it starts a new instance, make sure you have popups enabled on the site, because it took me a while to figure out where the new vod was, and I had to restart it all over so I could get rid of the double sound

N9-GoDz · 3 months

Yeah, twitch is far better in most aspects

ShinCoal · 3 months

To some people here saying that Own3d should be dropped in favour for Twitch:

The big problem is that Own3d/Twitch will always divide casters/communities.

I know Own3d has shitty ass VOD's, but appearantly the streams differ heavily on your location, I know some people who say Twitch is the better streaming website, while I and multiple other people I know hate Twitch because the Streams give a horrible amount of lag when the stream hits more than a couple of thousand streams (mostly around 5000+ it starts fucking around).

Yes the Own3d VODs suck, but it's not like people are going to purely use Twitch as long as a lot of people have lag issues with that website.

Shawn_Spenstar · 3 months

I have all the same issues as you, owned3tv is trash i have no idea why tobi and joindota use it, that being said go to joindotas youtube page its already linked in here, its updated a hour hours after the joindota site.

brict · 3 months

Same issues, also on chrome, haven't found any way around it.

GuidedKamikaze · 3 months

I once watched what a lot of people were calling an epic match through ownedtvs vods. It froze at 50 minutes of 1:15 minutes and I never got to see the end of that game, a waste of 50 minutes.

Never again.

Aldrenean · 3 months

Most of the problems with own3d vods stem from embedding. If you click the own3d.tv logo in the bottom right it will take you to that video on own3d itself, which doesn't have the double video problem (by far the most annoying one.)

But yeah, the youtube channel is even better. ^{.^}

bsterling604 · 3 months

man, i feel you, i have a debug flash player installed on my system for my own development and i'm constantly riddled with null pointer exceptions and errors that are being thrown that normal users without a debugger installed on their system will see. Just goes to show how absolutely shit the own3d player is.

Trowter123 · 3 months

I think owned streaming is a LOT better, for some reason I cant watch one Twitch stream at 720P (this happens to a lot of people I know) on Owned, I can open like 3 streams at once all at 720P, no lag

Sure the VODs are a little buggy...but the twitch streaming is terrible.

Werke · 3 months

The streams are fine so people below that mention own3d as a whole sucks are idiots.

The VoDs, well before they started upping them all to Youtube I would either make sure to be there for the stream or just try and forget a match ever happened

Belegurth · 3 months

i have the same issues owned sucks

BilgeXA · 3 months

Because they're a streaming service.

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