"Shock Σ (°△° station B actually has a client?! "after youaiteng, station B finally started on the PC end." "It won't split the web version. Let the client provide it exclusively." In fact, Shichao is also curious about why station B launched the client. After all, the web version can meet most of the needs.
No matter what the reason for my uncle to launch this client is, it doesn't hinder the trial. There may be unexpected surprises.
After installation, it is a separate exe application, and the icon is still a familiar small TV.
The first reaction to opening the program is refreshing.
This interface is a bit like a mobile phone. After opening, it is full of recommendations, without scrolling banners and messy advertisements.
Although the recommendation page is customized, sometimes there are not necessarily favorite videos in it. For example, if you only exercise once every other time, unless it's the next day after exercise, you can't see the content related to fitness on the recommendation page.
At this time, it is a relatively fast method to find video in the partition module. Because station B has 28 large partitions and hundreds of small partitions.
However, the client has no partition module?!
It only provides a thin to poor classification in the "hot" rankings.
I just want to see some fitness related content, but in addition to fitness, sports also include other sub categories such as basketball and competitive sports
Since I couldn't find videos in the classification, I tried other channels, so I went to see the up master who paid attention to it.
But the process was not smooth. The video found sour eyes.
Because you can't turn the page to see the contributions or view the favorites of the up master on the up master home page, you can only click slowly to find the video...
Unlike the up main home page of the web version, it not only has its own classification, but also has a limited number of videos on one page (30). You can turn the page. You are not afraid of a careless crossing without knowing it. No matter how bad it is, you can directly find keywords in the web page.
For the sake of eyes and hands, we can only turn to the search box. At least the search bar is not castrated. It is convenient to find according to keywords.
Although looking for video windows The client is far inferior to the web version, but the client is not without advantages. Two practical functions have been found.
One is the color mode, which can switch the light / dark mode with one click, and the background changes from white to black, so that night owls can protect their eyes.
The other is the function of nice - boss key.
After clicking the video, a separate window will pop up. The small window mode can be opened on the playback page, and the size of this small window can be adjusted at will. And you can put this window on the top and do something else while watching the video.
After pressing the boss key, the video will automatically stop playing, and hide all the windows of the client of station B. press the boss key again to restore it. Don't be embarrassed by leaving a small icon after Alt + tab switching windows.
Videos have been played on the computer. It's not too much to enjoy the audio-visual feast.
Unfortunately, although 8K image quality can be played, there is no image quality option for higher stages, whether HDR or Dolby horizon.
Even if priority hevc is set in the Windows client, the Windows client will still use AV1 decoding.
1080p video is not unacceptable, but the most incomprehensible thing is that as a client, it has no caching function!
Another point is that poor friends who are used to using the web version may not be used to it. Windows client can only open one video window + one live broadcast window. The second video / live broadcast window will directly overwrite the previous window.
And although there are few open windows, the client does not occupy a lot of memory. When playing the same live broadcast, the memory consumption of the client directly soared to more than 3G.
And the live broadcast of the client is delayed. Assuming that the edge has no delay, chrome will have a delay of 1-2s and the client will have a delay of 2-3s.
When others cheer RNG to win the championship, you may be confused when using the client.
The function and energy consumption are not as good as the web version. Why should station B bother to launch the Windows client?
It's a bold guess that this client may just be testing the water (there is no publicity on the official microblog) to prepare for the Mac version of the client. Just nine days later (on the 19th), station B released the MAC client.
The development speed is so fast because the Windows client and MAC client are actually a browser shell.
The electron framework is used. This framework can copy the code of the web version directly for easy maintenance. When modifying the function of the web page, you can easily modify the function of the client without repeating the wheel.
It can also easily build applications of different platform versions.
But for now, I feel that the Windows client itself is of little significance. The web version is easier to use than the client.
The client has no easy-to-use functions, such as partition, message, contribution and cache, and the energy consumption is not dominant.
Since the client is not easy to use now, can we only rely on the web version?
No, you can choose the third-party uwp (Windows general application platform) version of love power generation.
Recommend a frequently used uwp to poor friends - Xiaoyao orange uwp!
The home page is clean and tidy, and the functions that need to be used can be found at a glance. Although there are banner and advertising, it is harmless.
Its overall style is similar to that of the web version. You can directly open more windows. As long as you click a video, a "tab" will pop up automatically.
Of course, you can also adjust the style suitable for you in the setting according to your habits.
How detailed is this setting? You can set the display mode of the recommendation page to grid or list, the width of the video details page, and the video playback page.
In addition, it can also meet users who have high requirements for image and sound quality. Whether HDR, 8K or Dolby horizon, you can choose. Of course, it also supports hevc hard solution.
What's more, it can directly cache video without plug-ins.
It can be said that in addition to the inability to broadcast and submit videos, the uwp of Xiaoyao orange version contains almost all the functions that ordinary users will use.
It seems that the official Windows client of station B is more hip-catching.
But it's the first version after all. Uncle will continue to iterate and solve some slot points.
As for the subsequent castration of the web version, I'm not too worried. After all, there are great gods among the people. Web plug-ins and third-party clients can always meet everyone's needs.