Thanks everyone for the solid feedback! The feature requests and critiques are invaluable. This was an alpha version we put together to see what type of response we got before we started to develop additional features.
@Adrianwaj - I dig your favorites video idea. I'm going play with some interface designs and see what I can come up with. You have a lot of great suggestions here. I think we can incorporate most of them over time, but I want to avoid having too many features and making the app too complicated for the user. I do appreciate all the great ideas. Thanks!
@iwr - I was debating between wrapping the YouTube chromeless player in Flash or JavaScript. To achieve a full screen button, I would need to wrap the player in Flash, but overall I much prefer working in JS, especially with the push towards HTML5 and CSS3. You bring up a great point about dual screens. I think as HTML5 develops, so will a solution. As browsers continue to trend towards being more minimalistic maybe a they will soon offer a JS full screen mode.
@makuro - We have not developed the seek scrubber or volume control quite yet. I wanted to see the overall response to the core application before I started working on those additional features. I have designs for them though, so keep an eye on us. ;-)
@iworkforthem - Thanks for the positive feedback! I would love to use this interface to build out content channels for others. You bring up a really good utility here. Using the Data API we could easily grab all the videos from a certain user, and booya you have a custom channel. Ping me if you know anyone who could use this. vidi@vici.tv
@Vantra - Someone else mention that thumbs up \ thumbs down idea too. We are essentially doing that with the next button. We figured if you hit the next button the video was not engaging enough for you to watch all the way through. We capture that data and consider it when choosing videos for everyone. Our back end crowdsources what videos are the most entertaining using the next button and a few other pieces of critical data pumped through a some cool ratio analysis and comparison algorithms. With this AI, VICI.tv will filter though YouTube and deliver better and better content over time.
Again, thanks for all the comments and keep them coming. We will put in more features based on what people suggest the most. Any questions, feel free to find us on twitter (@VICItv) or drop us a line: vidi@vici.tv.
Lastly, what channels are everyone's favorites? I saw so many awesome ones pop up yesterday. A couple of my new favorites are Parkour and Chris Farley.
Alexander