watching Wild Green Yonder with a friend, me watching the movie on my Plex, them watching the version broken into episodes on Hulu.
i pulled Hulu up to make sure i stayed synced, and the Hulu version quickly pulled ahead of mine. i didn’t notice a missing scene but i wasn’t paying close attention to the Hulu version.
when Hulu auto-cycled to the next episode, even with outro and intro credits, it brought it back to sync with my version. we’re ⅓ through episode two, and Hulu is currently 14 seconds ahead, although we started this episode synced.
The ones broken up for televised airing like normal 23 minute long episodes is the main reason. They’d have a time difference from watching them on adult swim compared to the DVDs too. They cut some jokes out and inserted commercials. I really can’t even stand watching Bender’s Big Score in the episodic format, since much of the stuff I liked most was cut or shortened.
Its common, here’s an example with seinfeld apparently its to increase ad time lol. Also I guess a lot of companies now are assuming people are gonna put the show as background noise, not as if you’re actually paying attention
It’s for ad time. At some point, the TV industry realized though couldn’t get studios to make “30 minute” shows shorter then they already were (for ad breaks), so they artificially compress those show times to fit more seconds of ads in addition to the ad breaks they already had time for.
So say a studio releases a 20 minute episode of content for a 30-minute time block, distribution companies like Hulu will take that 10 minutes for ads, plus compress (by speeding up) the 20 minute episode, too. It wouldn’t even surprise me if they use an algorithm to determine which parts of the episode they can speed up more aggressively than others, to hide that impact from the viewer.
I get that for broadcast, but for streaming it doesn’t make any sense, it’s not like ad breaks on streaming used to be the same length as on cable. on top of that, I wasn’t getting ads when watching this on Hulu
Hulu is owned by broadcast networks, they could just be using the same media, pre-condensed.
I think it’s for ads. I first discovered this watching “Interview with the Vampire”. In the UK, it’s available on BBC iPlayer, but that version runs faster than the pirated version. I didn’t notice until we took a break from watching and notice we were out of sync. I decided to test it by playing the pirated version at the exact same time as the BBC version. It was uncanny to hear them start out synced but gradually diverge.
The BBC iPlayer version doesn’t have ads, but when playing on live TV it does have ads, so I assume that’s why.
My math is rusty, but this sounds like their original source files were at a different framerate than whatever their streaming standard framerate is. E.g., a 25 fps PAL source, playing at a 30 (or 29.976) NTSC rate.
