Chat only mode (new feature suggestion)

[zkent]

Often I want to keep chat open and turn off music or play something different. But muting and hiding video don't save any system resources (CPU over 50% on my old system). It would be nice if there were a chat only mode where no video or audio is involved.

[martindale]

I like this idea! +1.

We should open at least one other issue to resolve the CPU problem though; video.js is likely not falling back to native support for YouTube on that system. Maybe @eXon could help here.

On the other hand, will the introduction of custom rooms (#79) help in this regard?

[eXon]

With some jQuery, you can remove the player tag if you don't want it and add it back when needed. You will need to setup video.js with Javascript though.

[martindale]

@zkent I've implemented /stream off and /stream on, does this lower CPU usage?

Though, I'm not sure why CPU usage would be so high, as we're only allowing the HTML5 player now.

[zkent]

@martindale It doesn't seem to help much if at all. There are times when I have been running my computer for a while that I can't even run s.io b/c it basically maxes out my CPU. Rebooting helps reduce it to 20% CPU or so.

[martindale]

Try soundtrack.player.dispose() next time, let's see if it's related to the player or something else.

[zbeekman]

It seems like this thread might profit from being renamed, as this issue is more about resource usage, than “chat only” since /stream off as well as muting and making the chat window bigger accomplish the goal of ‘chat only’ just my $0.02

[zkent]

I agree. I can't even run the site on my currently PC anymore if I am
working. My biggest issue here is CPU usage.

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Izaak Beekman [email protected]
wrote:

It seems like this thread might profit from being renamed, as this issue
is more about resource usage, than “chat only” since /stream off as well
as muting and making the chat window bigger accomplish the goal of ‘chat
only’ just my $0.02

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[martindale]

Let's figure out how to tackle the CPU use problem; the API exists for anyone to develop a chat-only mode, but it won't be a priority for me for a while. Feel free to submit a pull request that enables it, though!

I've opened #137 to handle issues / proposals for solving the CPU issue.