Club MST3k is a compendium of Mystery Science Theater 3000 videos, complete with user-submitted quotes, comments, forum and recently, a chat function rolled into the "episode of the day," called Watch-It-Together.

This is a script to enhance the Watch-It-Together experience. It can

• hoist the chat alongside the video, a.k.a. "theater mode"
• embed a chatroom for any episode
• queue and automatically play videos for supported embeds (YouTube, Dailymotion and Vimeo)
• catch up to an episode in progress, even after pausing

How to use this

Follow the instructions provided here.

Known bugs

• The chat window from tlk.io may not be functional. This is a known issue which can be worked around by changing your browser settings to allow third-party storage from tlk.io, but there's nothing I can do on this end right now. :(
• The message overlay may be hidden in Internet Explorer.
• Autoplay may misfire due to a race condition where catchUp() fires before the YouTube frame is ready.
• Another autoplay hiccup where the Dailymotion player (Flash only?) won't seek/play in the right place the first time we call catchUp() after the video has reloaded.

Todo

• Improve code underlying the warning message for embeds with no API support (MetaCafe, Hulu via Dailymotion, bare links.)
• Have a way to reset the time selected for Watch-It-Together.
• Make a unified player interface (all we use is play(), seek() and getDuration().)
• Improve API support for YouTube, Vimeo and Dailymotion embeds.
• Find API support for Metacafe and Hulu embeds via Dailymotion.

Notes

• Godzilla vs. Megalon has Dailymotion and YouTube embeds. In Chrome, this will crash if the debugger is open.
• Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster has Metacafe, YouTube and Dailymotion embeds. The Dailymotion embed is somehow from Hulu and doesn't play nice.
• Kitten With a Whip has a Vimeo embed.