Surfcam Player Controls Disappear When Logged In

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Sprout started the topic in Friday, 21 Sep 2018 at 9:38am

As per title and image.
Firefox 62.0 / Chrome 69.0.3497.100

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thermalben Friday, 21 Sep 2018 at 9:46am

We've switched to a new player for Subscribers.

What player controls would you like to see that are missing? We are aware of the fullscreen button (that will return ASAP) but as far as I can see the others are not applicable for surfcams.

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thermalben Friday, 21 Sep 2018 at 9:46am

We're also aware that the player displays a grey screen before streaming (rather than a still image from the cam) - we will attend to this shortly too.

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loungelizard Friday, 21 Sep 2018 at 10:17am

got the blue filter on today? middleton point looks like sumatra!

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thermalben Friday, 21 Sep 2018 at 10:23am

Probably just cloud shadows darkening the colour of the water (see the two images below, spaced a couple of minutes apart).

Looks more green to me though?

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Sprout Friday, 21 Sep 2018 at 11:37am

Yep just the full screen one. Cheers mate.

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Westofthelake Friday, 21 Sep 2018 at 11:59am

Interestingly today using Internet Explorer (work default) all the cams are coming up with the Sorry technical difficulties screen, yet on Chrome they're working fine.

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thermalben Friday, 21 Sep 2018 at 12:14pm

The new player must not like IE (or the version of IE you are running). 

Can you please provide more info, such as:

Computer type (Desktop, Mobile)
OS and version (i.e. Mac OS 10.13.6, Windows 10)
Browser type and version (i.e. Chrome 69.0.3497.100, Internet Explorer 11.0)

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Westofthelake Friday, 21 Sep 2018 at 12:23pm

No worries Ben, as I said it is the work one, and Chrome works fine.
Desktop, Windows 7 Pro (just noticed it's 25% into a windows update -which might be the problem?)
IE browser 11.0.9600.18837

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thermalben Friday, 21 Sep 2018 at 12:43pm

Thanks WOTL - we'll look into it.