GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 586982
Allow seeking using timeline thumbnails
Last modified: 2018-05-24 10:34:54 UTC
noticed the latest pitivi has thumbnails at a specified interval in the timeline. thought it would be useful to have a similar option in totem so when you are showing a movie/homemovie you can turn on the option to show a timeline with thumbails at given increments for the video (to ease the skipping ahead - making it more accurate). Other information:
Created attachment 137386 [details] idea of look
I'd be all for that. The PS3's media player, and Apple's DVD also have similar features. Want to try?
The way I would implement it would be: 1) pause the playback 2) freeze cluttersink's texture (bug 680251) 3) seek around and capture the thumbnails 4) seek to destination 5) thaw the cluttersink 6) play again
Screenshot of what it looks like in the apple dvd player (minus the thumbnails being filled in). http://images.appleinsider.com/dvdplayer5-070118-1.gif
*** Bug 700158 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 267107 [details] youtube seek previews Bug 700158 implemented something similar to YouTube's previews.
Created attachment 267108 [details] seek bar popover without preview What it looks like when there's no preview available.
Created attachment 267109 [details] bad picture of what it looks like on the PS3
We can probably easily implement the Apple DVD and PS3-like previews, as those stop playback when they popup, and avoid the problem of having either a second video decoder (as in bug 700158) or generating previews offline as YouTube does.
Here is a video of what was implemented in #700158 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26Winhff1QQ
Showing a thumbnail seems like it would be really useful. The Documents seek bar has something very similar to what YouTube does; it would be great if Videos could be consistent. What documents doesn't do is show the thumbnail on hover, like the behaviour in comment 10. That seems nice to me, although maybe others would disagree.
Bastien, do you need more input from designers?
No, we'd need this to be technically feasible first. Bug 700158 comment 4 explains why we couldn't use the patches proposed in the other bug.
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