Howdy, Stranger!
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Categories
- 33.6K All Categories
- 28.2K LSAT
- 17.1K General
- 5.2K Logical Reasoning
- 1.4K Reading Comprehension
- 1.7K Logic Games
- 70 Podcasts
- 192 Webinars
- 11 Scholarships
- 194 Test Center Reviews
- 2.2K Study Groups
- 112 Study Guides/Cheat Sheets
- 2.5K Specific LSAT Dates
- 36 November 2024 LSAT
- 18 October 2024 LSAT
- 9 September 2024 LSAT
- 38 August 2024 LSAT
- 28 June 2024 LSAT
- 4 April 2024 LSAT
- 11 February 2024 LSAT
- 22 January 2024 LSAT
- 38 November 2023 LSAT
- 43 October 2023 LSAT
- 14 September 2023 LSAT
- 38 August 2023 LSAT
- 27 June 2023 LSAT
- 30 Sage Advice
- 5K Not LSAT
- 4K Law School Admissions
- 13 Law School Explained
- 10 Forum Rules
- 647 Technical Problems
- 288 Off-topic
Help us help you! (by diagnosing an issue - videos not loading)
Elaine --Student Service--
Alum Member
Hello 7Sagers!
Recently, we have noticed that quite a few of you have been having trouble with our videos, especially with the videos not loading and the "four dots" constantly giving a buffering signal, but never actually loading.
We have been able to reproduce the issue ourselves privately, but so far that hasn't been enough data for us to pinpoint exactly what's going on. We're calling on everyone who has had the problem to please let us know, especially with the following details:
what device/app you were using, and what OS
what country you are currently in
when does it occur? anything "noteworthy" happening?
We also welcome any screenshots or screencasts.
Either post here or email studentservice@7sage.com.
Thanks everyone!
Comments
Macbook air 11 early 2015
macOS mojave 10.14.5
Firefox Quantum 68.0.1
South Korea
Has been happening daily for me since I started using 7sage about a month ago.
My estimate is that it happens about once every 20 videos.
About half the time, refreshing a bunch of times will help.
The other half, I need to clear cookies.
I will pay more attention when it happens and will post if I notice anything else.
Another issue which happens often (once a day) is that when I pause a video and then press play, the sound will disappear. This usually happens if I paused and played many times for that video. I usually will have to refresh the page.
I notice I have this issue particularly when my internet is slow, but the four dots thing happens pretty often to me and I have to refresh a couple times.
Acer VX5-591G (2017)
Windows 10 Home
Google Chrome Version 76.0.3809.100 (Official Build) (64-bit)
USA
Noticed the issue occurring more frequently as of recent. I only use the 7Sage app for videos, on apple iOS (most recent os, iPad Pro, and USA.
@"Elaine --Student Service--"
any idea if choosing a specific video player in the settings would help?
On an unrelated topic, sometimes when watching JY’s video explanations, the video freezes (so the dot that represents JY’s pen in his lessons and explanations is fixed/doesn’t move), but his sound continues. So what I do to fix it is to reset part of the video by going back 20 seconds to try to get it to unfreeze, which is usually successful.
@16guitar Good eye! That's actually a new fix that we've pushed out recently that we're still testing more widely now - the "simple" player seems to be fixing issues, but also it doesn't have the time cues and other advanced features. Basically, we're trying to find a way to juggle maximum compatibility between all kinds of devices, browsers, etc. while preserving all the advanced features.
Give it a try, let me know if it fixes your issues!
Having this problem today.
ASUS, Windows 10
in US
nothing interesting happening. Its only do it to every other video though. Usually refreshing will fix it but not today.
Thanks!
I do experience the resizing issue when I run the digital test on my iPad. So, I was not able to read the whole question from the RC.
@"Lana Kane" Thanks for letting us know! Is this with the default "Advanced" player? If so, could you please try with the "Simple" player and let us know if it helps?
I dont know if I should report this here, but on restarting a fresh copy of a problem set causes the program to glitch, if I click anything on the top toolbar (Sound, Time, Etc). The window doesn't close/ will keep reopening when I click anywhere. Any help would be appreciated!
@"Alan Cheuk"
Edit: figured out how to switch to simple. It was on part of the CC where it was defaulting to the regular player. (I saw on some of the videos I'm on now there's a button to switch back to regular) Its working fine now though.
@ajroks08
Have you tried force refresh (at the bottom of the screen)? If you have and the problem still persists, let us know your device, browser/app, anything else noteworthy. If you have any screenshots/screencasts, that would be super helpful! If you feel weird posting that, email us studentservice@7sage.com
My two cents: I've had this issue. Disabling Ublock (adblocker extension) from running on 7sage.com resolved the issue for me.
@ajroks08
An update: we tried to reproduce the problem using both Windows 10 Chrome browser and the app on iPhone 8, but were unable to. Do you mind sharing some more details about what happened on your side so we can more closely match what is causing the issue?
Sure! I was using Safari on the latest Mac OS (Mojave). Let me speak more on what was happeneing, essentially if I did not wipe the data from the previous problem set, the toolbar becomes "sticky" (unable to fully close if clicked on during the test) and if it does close it just opens back up when clicking anywhere on the screen.
Hi, I'm currently having trouble getting any videos to play.
I tried firefox and chrome, simple and advanced mode.
When I click on play, the play icon switches to a pause icon but the video doesn't start playing.
@_Tzvi_ka
I'm glad it's working now! Another thing that we've been seeing that @Lawster9 mentioned is that adblockers/plugins also sometimes interfere with our video player, so if you do use those plugins/extensions, try disabling them for 7sage.
oh nice! I will try that out
@ajroks08
Thanks for the extra info! We put out a change yesterday that changes the way Fresh Copies are done. Before, it would replace the current problem set with the new Fresh Copy. Now, you will have to tap a link to change to the Fresh Copy. We're hoping this will solve your issue - note that you will have to force refresh to "activate" the change before trying again.
Let me us know if it still doesn't work!
Videos are not loading. This happened with every single video. I already restarted my laptop 4 times.
I am using a Lenovo Yoga 720 laptop, internet explorer.
USA
Sometimes I have to X out the page and sign in again, click continue to continue with my lesson, and it skips the lesson I was not able to do and the next video would load after refreshing 7-8 times.
Desktop, Google Chrome
Canada
Seems to happen when I click for explanations to questions in my Preptest. It also happens sometimes when trying to quick-show the individual question stimulus/stem/ACs. Happened a lot last week, didn't happen much this week.
@"winniezam" @"jeff.wongkachi"
Thank you for those information.
Please allow me to pass it on to the team for us to investigate. I'll get back to you as soon as we have an update.
(Update: resolved)
I came here looking for this issue as I've been experiencing the same thing. I have a Macbook Air 2015, most recent Mac OS. I am in the United States and I have been using Google Chrome.
Hi there,
Sorry for the trouble.
We noticed that some students have reported that using an adblocker interfered with videos on our site and that disabling the adblocker fixed the problem for them.
We've also added a "simple" video player along with our advanced video player. The simple one lacks some of the advanced features like time cues, but we've purposely created it to "play nice" with the largest pool of devices and browsers. If you go to "Settings" (https://7sage.com/account/) and then choose "Simple" under Video Player, it should fix the loading issues. See the screenshot below:
Let me know if you're still having trouble.