This has started happening tonight. Every time I click on a new video in my playlist, “native controls” (which I don’t want) automatically turns on, as well as automatically muting the video. I typically don’t turn on native controls, so why is it suddenly doing this automatically? (And I should mention, whenever I turn off “Always show native player controls” in my personal settings, I can’t rewind or fast forward the video.)
Thanks a lot for your feedback! Since many Youtube features (captions, translations, video quality) are only accessible using Youtube’s native controls we are slowly rolling out an update that will make native controls the default. You should, however, be able to disable native controls in the settings and still be able to control the video using Watch2Gether’s video control bar. Is this not the case for you?
Thank you for replying.
I can disable it using the settings bar, but every time it goes to a new video in the queue, native controls turn back on, and I have to re-disable them, which can be mildly annoying when my friends and I are trying to watch a queue.
Knowing you’re rolling out an update makes a lot of sense. Thank you.
Thanks for your reply. Now i understand better. You can permanently disable the controls in the room settings. You find this option under: Settings on the left side > Personal Settings
Does that help?
When Native Controls are enabled, you have the set of player options doubled… Once when hovering over the player, then the controls below… Disabling “Show Native Controls” helps… however it doesn’t stop the Video from starting automatically even though they should not…
Thanks for your input. I understand that this can be a bit confusion. We used to have the native controls disabled but there are certain settings that can only be changed by having them enabled (quality, captions, auto-translations) Since more and more users had issues accessing these settings they are now enabled by default.
This is not perfect but the best working compromise for now.