(floink @ feb. 06 2004,22:34 Wrote:... a nice extra feature with this would be the ability to auto-capture a screenshot accompaning the bookmark. so when scrolling bookmarks you see a thumb preview of the scene bookmarked (makes naming not so important).
nice feature! i still think text is very useful though, like for serie episodes where identifying each can be hard just by a screen capture (could just be intro text, same for each part). more useful would then be if one could freely select what picture frame to go with each bookmark. then you could select a easily identifyible frame, not just the one at the exact bookmark. of cause being able to select 'picture' or 'text' or even 'picture and text' bookmarks would be really nice, but maybe not in the first iteration.
Quote:i think a seperate bookmark manager would be in place here where you have text editing and such included. maybe somehow related to the imdb info screen/video database, which would get you something close to a dvd menu for any movie. so; osd is used for capturing, browsing/using bookmarks. bookmark manager is used for... managing bookmarks.
great idea to combine bookmark management with imdb info screen. though it would be most useful to also be able to 'use' the bookmarks from that interface. you could then use the bookmark menu without starting a movie and choose to go to any of them.
could look something like this: (sorry for the ascii graphics, hope the concept comes across anyway)
when pressing the button on the remote that today brings up imdb info, the screen below is instead shown, having 3 sections on top, 'movie info' for imdb info, 'bookmarks', and 'file info' (for technical info about the movie file: codecs, transfer rates, file size etc.).
screen layout:
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movie info | bookmarks | file info |
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<lookup> |======================|
<manual> | |
<refresh> | |
<cast> | |
| |
| info about the movie |
| |
| |
| |
| |
|======================|
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-lookup: fetches info about the movie from imdb (to show the menu faster, it might be wise not to do this automatically).
-manual: same as today, enter search string manually.
-refresh: same as today, redo the search.
-cast: same as today, toggle between cast and plot.
the screen below is shown when the user selects the 'bookmark' section. the user can from there goto, edit or delete a bookmark, delete all bookmarks or play the movie from the beginning (instead of going back to the file list to start it). a bookmark could also be added by entering an absolute time for it. (if a bookmark could be both a picture and a text you could toggle between views using <show pictures>.)
screen layout:
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movie info | bookmarks | file info |
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<add bookmark> <delete all> <play from start>
<show pictures>
bookmark - 00:10:34 <edit> <delete>
bookmark - 00:15:22 <edit> <delete>
bookmark - 00:23:11 <edit> <delete>
bookmark - 00:45:14 <edit> <delete>
bookmark - 00:56:43 <edit> <delete>
bookmark - 01:15:05 <edit> <delete>
bookmark - 01:34:08 <edit> <delete>
bookmark - 01:39:20 <edit> <delete>
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the third section, 'file info', is just to give an example of how such a section menu could be extended further.
i also think it is a good way of preserving the scarce buttons to use a many-in-one menu like this.
the user could possibly select which section would come up pre-selected, according to his/hers own preferences (in 'settings' menu or in skin file).
Quote:so; osd is used for capturing, browsing/using bookmarks. bookmark manager is used for... managing bookmarks.
about a bookmark interface in the osd, i still think it would be very useful to also be able to name the bookmarks at the time of creating them, in the osd (or when pressing 'bookmark' button without showing osd). just imagine that you make 10 bookmarks for a video file while playing it. if you later have to go to another interface to name them it will be hard to remember which is which.
just some ideas...