Duncan Webb wrote: > [snip] > Why do you think that 5 minutes? You can use: > Event(VIDEO_SEND_MPLAYER_CMD, arg = 'pausing_keep seek -0.5') > to go back 1/2 a second. > > Attached is the full list of events that I have in local_conf.py. you > can possible do something similar for VIDEO_SEND_XINE_CMD. > > [snip] > Thank you for that Duncan, it will be a help to have some more events setup to drive freevo in a more flexible way and at least will mean that I don't have to live with only a 5min skip backwards.
I don't mean to go on about this, I also know that if xine and mplayer supported this it wouldn't be an issue. I don't want to start an argument, just trying to explain why this sort of thing is so important. I have people who come round and love the idea of the media centre, but they expect it to behave like an out of the box PVR or an an VCR. I have a MS media centre remote. And they press rewind and expect it to rewind just like a normal PVR or VCR would, and they expect skip back to jump back a large chunk of time. Now the jump back works fine, but rewind doesn't. Its not a huge thing, but it doesn't work the way people expect it to. Rewind is so ingrained as a way to interact with moving pictures on a TV that its quite a shock to discover it doesn't work. If you are searching for something rewind and fast forward allow you to view the pictures as they speed past then play at the appropriate point. Skipping loses that continuity of the stream, disorientates the user, and makes it harder to perform the task they actually want to achieve. Like I said, at the end of the day it isn't a huge thing, but it breaks peoples expectation of how things should work. Hopefully this is something that will be fixed in the future by xine or mplayer providing proper rewind support. Or maybe if this stuff is handled differently in Freevo 2.0 then it will work there. The other thing worth noting is that I write user interface software for a living, so this kind of thing probably bugs me more than other people! I spend every working day trying to produce software that is as simple and as obvious to interact with as possible, doing user reviews of the interface etc. so when I find things like this they really stick out. In the grand scheme of things they are fairly minor compared with the function working, but they do make things harder to use and I just wanted to point that out, in case nobody has before :). I know there probably isn't anything that can be done to fix this right now, but maybe in the future it can be. Maybe I'll join the xine / mplayer mailing list and ask about rewind there too :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
