Visual Identification of Commercial Segments in Progress Bar

[Jator 10]

Still getting used to using Emby vs Channels DVR as my day to day client.  One thing my wife pointed out was that the progress bar in Channels shows where the commercial breaks are so its easier to navigate to a known segment in Channels vs. Emby.  As example, in SNL, it's easy to identify when the Weekend Update segment is based on the length of the segment and where it fits in the progress bar.  I can't see where that's an option in Emby.

It's a cosmetic items I know, but full scale adoption is dependent on the WAF (IFYKYK) not having to learn something drastically different and/or losing capabilities from previous platform.  

Here's the segment from Channels DVR Progress bar:

And here's a SNL recording done in Emby:

If there's a setting or plugin that will minic this, I'd appreciate direction on how to get it working.

TIA

[Luke 42077]

Hi, yes it's not a bad idea. But of course keep in mind we also have the buffer indicator to consider, as well as chapters (which are not currently displayed there, but those make sense too).

[ebr 16169]

Plus, first we'd have to know where the commercials are which is a different issue.

[Jator 10]

Thanks @Lukeand @ebrfor reviewing.  If it's not obivous, I am not a coder, so my contributions are mainly geared toward the end user experience.

In terms of knowing where the commercials are, I am assuming that how others have done it is use a trigger for a script or function to be called to create the 'visual segments' in the progress bar.  In this case, if a recording has an associated edl next to it, then it would attempt to graphically display the breaks, otherwise it would bypass that and just display a normal progress bar.

Like I said, I'm not a coder so this is just a guess on my part.  

[ebr 16169]

Hi.  Yes, but that is additional functionality that doesn't exist and would be a pre-requisite for this.