Is there a way to fix time delays in chat vs the video?

[mechalincoln]

Hey. I'm very happy with this project and it works great aside from one thing. Is it possible to have the script handle instances where the chat and the video don't perfectly line up, e.g. the chat is eight minutes ahead from the start, trigger the chat to actually play normally when the video starts? Or have a delay function or some sort?

Thanks again.

[hizkifw]

Hi, we don't have that feature yet. You'll need to write a script to update the timestamps in the chat file.

[mechalincoln]

Do you know what that would entail if I wanted to do that on my side, and/or when new features would be added to this project?

Thank you.

[hizkifw]

You can check the chat json file. It's usually an array with timestamps in each of the array element

You can write a script to read the json file, update the timestamps, and then write it again.

import json

# example, make chat run 10 seconds earlier
offset = -10

with open('input.chat.json', 'r') as f:
    chat = json.load(f)

for item in chat:
    if 'time_in_seconds' in item:
        item['time_in_seconds'] -= offset

with open('output.chat.json', 'w') as f:
    json.dump(chat, f)

I haven't tested the code, you'll need to change it according to your needs

[mechalincoln]

Thank you again.

Is the above a shell script?

[hizkifw]

It's a python script. Save it as a .py file and run it from the terminal (Powershell/cmd)

python ./script.py

Put the chat JSON files next to the script file and make sure the script opens the correct file names.

If you don't have Python installed you can get it from https://www.python.org/. When installing don't forget to check the option to add Python to the PATH.

[mechalincoln]

I'll try that out soon.

Thank you again for your help.