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2016-10-24, 15:31
(This post was last modified: 2016-10-24, 15:35 by willemd.)
Hi guys
I sometimes use the number keys on my keyboard or remote control to skip to a certain point in a video. You know, you press the numbers to select the seconds/minutes/hours, press enter or OK, and the video skips to that point in time. But since a while pressing a number key doesn't do anything anymore. It doesn't even show up in the top left of the window. I tried this with two Windows machines running a nightly from this week.
Is this feature supposed to be removed in Krypton, or is it a bug?
(if it's the latter, I'll make a debug log.)
Thanks!
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You used to now its NO NO
i hope that answers your question
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Seems I was wrong, it has indeed been removed in the process of some code cleanup, seems like the relevant dev might not have understood the full implications.
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Ah, thanks for checking!
In the meanwhile I had made a debug log, but that shows just that Kodi does register the key, but doesn't take any action. (The next line in the log is just the next key press.)
Will or can it be returned? It is quite a useful feature (- at least it is to me).
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2016-10-24, 16:30
(This post was last modified: 2016-10-24, 16:31 by kimkl.)
Well if it was rem by mistake you could prob put it in yourself is some kind Team Kodi tells you where to put the code and what to put in.
unless we are talking about multiple file edits,
I have no clue myself do not use it i just use skip buttons serves my purpose
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For the functionality to be put back for the benefit of everyone would require the code to be rewritten to fit with the cleanup that has occurred, since this is the case I'll move this thread across to Feature Requests.
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I would very much like to offer my support for this very change. I was about to add a feature request for direct entry of point-in-time when I saw this thread.
This has several very useful purposes for me - often I might want to go to a particular scene in a movie or show, and know the general point in time when that scene occurs. It's impractical to just use the >> feature and wait for more than just a few seconds. If, for example, I know the scene is approximately 90 minutes into a feature, it would be much simpler to be able to type in 1:30:00 or 90:00 to move the playback directly to that point.
Another use-case for this feature is when one is watching a particular feature within a group, and someone wants to see something from a scene just a few minutes past, it is often much simpler to note the current time and key in a point numerically a minute or two earlier rather than wait out the fast-forward or reverse buttons.
This was one of my favorite features of the first DVD players I owned many years ago, and since Kodi already supports a "resume" feature for a suspended replay, it occurred to me that only the UI to accept the keystrokes would likely be necessary.
Thanks for the forum and the opportunity to support this request.
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2016-10-27, 12:40
(This post was last modified: 2016-10-27, 12:40 by jjd-uk.)
The PR restoring the functionality has been merged and will be available in the nightly builds from tomorrow or once Beta 5 is released.