Browser Timeout: "This Screen will be closed."

switchuser12

has anyone tried ethernet? also i found that airplane mode expanded my time. is this statically correct?

dafunkymonke

I dont see how that would effect anything, its a built in timer. i know that putting the switch into rest can essentially pause the timer but ill have to try airplane mode

jperez2250

i cant watch videos it says that feature is resricted. any help?

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@jperez2250 Nintendo has restricted the viewing of videos on the dns browser, i'd assume to discourage people from using it. There's also a 20 minute timer that'll kick you off every time it gets to 0. If you'd like to know some sites that work, check my first topic and another topic titled 'switch discoveries part 2'. I hope it helps :D

jperez2250

please find a workaround for the videos i would really apreciate that. i have looked around an here and its pretty fun.

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@jperez2250 You can watch any videos on facebok using a trick i found, you need to acess facebook from the "social network posting settings" on your switch

dafunkymonke

@jperez2250 big dawg think we customer support if you want to see videos go though facebook or settle for GIF's, otherwise there hasnt been any workarounds for years

VGMoose

Sadly as others pointed out, the DNS browser explicitly has video playback blocked. There are some workarounds for Facebook and Google Drive, but the access is really limited.

THE_ONlY_0NE

is there any way to play videos on here that doesn'tto involve homebrewing my switch?

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@THE_ONlY_0NE theres is one way, but it only makes it possible to watch vids on facebook and the method takes quite a few steps, im not sure if its worth it but u could try it out for yourself, there was a topic about that, its called "switch discoveries volume 3" by @Luna

reddeath670

hey users i really liked this idea of having it on the swicth i can do so much but i really hate the timer on it thats the thing that sucks hope they can fix that. would be cool

reddeath670

@daniel-johnson hey had that problem too keep pushing the a button on the swicth it might play but their will be no sound

7SidedCube

Hey! I just wanted to say, exiting and re-entering the browser resets the timer!

Alastor fan

I think I stoped the timer on my switch. Don't know how all I know is that I was on nitendo news then whent on the web thing for a bit shut of my switch and whent back to where the timer was and it said 0:00 and it still has not kicked me off.

Alastor fan

my timer stoped and it says 0:00 but I'm still on google it did not kick me off

Ria

@VGMoose I keep managing to bypass it, but it is random, so what happens is that I keep turning it off and then when I reopen it, it stays on for ages and I cant really predict when it is going to happen tho

VGMoose

In my experience, sleeping your console will pause the timer. But the total screen-on time should still be 20 minutes.

The countdown timers on SB and BDNS will keep ticking and become unsynced with the real one when this happens, but after 20 min it still closes.

mr cat

@VGMoose said in Browser Timeout: "This Screen will be closed.":

In my experience, sleeping your console will pause the timer. But the total screen-on time should still be 20 minutes.

The countdown timers on SB and BDNS will keep ticking and become unsynced with the real one when this happens, but after 20 min it still closes.

it also causes wifi issues in my experience with it

dreamer9090

thanks

Chimech0

@VGMoose So I think I'm onto something.
I was doing this: https://www.reddit.com/r/SwitchHacks/comments/1dggbrl/news_applet_as_a_plex_client_on_hos/

And on one of my steps to develop it further, I patched a couple binaries to change the domains from *nintendo.net to a custom domain with a custom port.

Before I did that, I just had a dns rewrite with a catch-all server for *nintendo.com and *nintendo.net, with "valid" ssl certificates (real certs but self-signed, but since the switch on the post is hacked the CA verification is bypassed).

When I had this config, the browser never closed, I was actually able to stream full length movies (2~3 hrs).

After I patched the domains on the binaries, I pointed back all *nintendo.com & net to 127.0.0.1, and I was able to listen to the requests on my custom domain:port, and everything worked fine, EXCEPT this time the browser closed after a certain period of time (but I think it was less than the 20 mins mentioned here, but could be due to the news applet using a different browser)

TLDR; I think what makes the browser close, is actually based on requests to a *nintendo.net, and since I think browserdns blocks some (or all) of those, it always fail to connect to the server it is trying to, and eventually closes the browser.

I will run more tests since I do want to have the custom domains working.

PD: I think the browser on the news applet is different from the web auth, but since it had the same self-closing behaviour I thought it was worth mentioning it.

PD2: The videos are played by using hls streams (m3u8), forcing video to h264 and audio to aac, and bitrate to max 3000. It only works with that config for me, everything else results on an error. Again, don't know if the web auth browser has the same capabilities, but worth trying it.