GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 631401
Start and end position in playlist
Last modified: 2011-06-20 14:44:40 UTC
I have suggestions for an enhancement of totem: In the playlist sidebar there should be (optionally) two additional columns, one with the title "start time" and one with title "end time". If you add a video, by default the corresponding entries should be 0 sec for "start time" and the length of the video for "end time". Those entries however should be editable (in the format hours:seconds:minutes) such that you could specify the starting and the end time for every video in the playlist. (If you play the playlist, each video will only play from the corresponding "start time" to "end time"). Additionally the following would be nice too: Choose a Video from the playlist and play it (or pause or fast-forward...). Then there should be two buttons A and B. By pressing A the the start time of the corresponding playlist entry will automatically set to the current time of the playing video. Similarly for B and the end time.
If cue points were added to totem, I wouldn't put them in the playlist, but in the playing video's seek bar. What's the use for this when one could use a video editor, which is made for just that purpose? Note that if you're interested in just adding "bookmarks" to export them to other applications, you can use the chapters plugin.
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!
(In reply to comment #1) > If cue points were added to totem, I wouldn't put them in the playlist, but in > the playing video's seek bar. > > What's the use for this when one could use a video editor, which is made for > just that purpose? Note that if you're interested in just adding "bookmarks" to > export them to other applications, you can use the chapters plugin. In a video editor you have to reencode the video file which takes too much time and the created video would occupy disk space. If you want to have different mixes of a set of videos and if you want to be able to change the mixing fast, it would be a nice thing to do this with playlists where you can specify start and end times of the videos on the list. Compare this discussion: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/8823/video-playlists-with-start-and-end-times
(In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #1) > > If cue points were added to totem, I wouldn't put them in the playlist, but in > > the playing video's seek bar. > > > > What's the use for this when one could use a video editor, which is made for > > just that purpose? Note that if you're interested in just adding "bookmarks" to > > export them to other applications, you can use the chapters plugin. > > In a video editor you have to reencode the video file which takes too much time No you don't, unless the video editor is crap and can't do lossless cutting. > and the created video would occupy disk space. Yes it would. > If you want to have different > mixes of a set of videos and if you want to be able to change the mixing fast, > it would be a nice thing to do this with playlists where you can specify start > and end times of the videos on the list. We already parse that in playlists, but we don't use it. See also bug 424708. Patches welcome. > Compare this discussion: > http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/8823/video-playlists-with-start-and-end-times