i bet a lot of you also hate having to try to find the exit point manually when continuing to watch a movie at a later time. if so read this:
regarding the upcomming funtion for video bookmarks, i think a most useful implemenation would be to have a temporary bookmark automatically be set when one stops a running movie.
when the user at a later time starts the same movie it automatically continues from the same exit point (perhaps minus 5 or 10 seconds to add some context). my pioneer dvd-player functions exactly like that, and it is great. :d
added functionallity could be like this (taken from my dvd-player):
- when pressing twice on stop for a playing movie no bookmark is set, meaning the movie will automatically play from the beginning on the next occation.
- when pressing twice on play to start a movie, any temporary bookmark is skipped and the movie plays from the beginning.
a variant to the above 'press-twice' scenario is to have a small menu show when starting a movie having a temporary bookmark, thus letting the user chose from the menu what to do:
=================
play from
<beginning>
or
<last stop point>
=================
in the same way a menu could alterativly be shown when stopping a movie:
=================
<stop>
or
<save stop point>
=================
this temporary bookmark functionallity could of cause be toogled in 'settings' for those really not wanting it, if any.
when starting a movie from a previous exit point a dialog could be shown during the caching of the movie like:
=======================
resuming play at 00:44:12
=======================
and this does not exclude manually set bookmarks, which also could be useful (see other post by me on some ideas on those).
any comments? you like it or not?
regarding the upcomming funtion for video bookmarks, i think a most useful implemenation would be to have a temporary bookmark automatically be set when one stops a running movie.
when the user at a later time starts the same movie it automatically continues from the same exit point (perhaps minus 5 or 10 seconds to add some context). my pioneer dvd-player functions exactly like that, and it is great. :d
added functionallity could be like this (taken from my dvd-player):
- when pressing twice on stop for a playing movie no bookmark is set, meaning the movie will automatically play from the beginning on the next occation.
- when pressing twice on play to start a movie, any temporary bookmark is skipped and the movie plays from the beginning.
a variant to the above 'press-twice' scenario is to have a small menu show when starting a movie having a temporary bookmark, thus letting the user chose from the menu what to do:
=================
play from
<beginning>
or
<last stop point>
=================
in the same way a menu could alterativly be shown when stopping a movie:
=================
<stop>
or
<save stop point>
=================
this temporary bookmark functionallity could of cause be toogled in 'settings' for those really not wanting it, if any.
when starting a movie from a previous exit point a dialog could be shown during the caching of the movie like:
=======================
resuming play at 00:44:12
=======================
and this does not exclude manually set bookmarks, which also could be useful (see other post by me on some ideas on those).
any comments? you like it or not?
