Improve skip / forwarding

[simonselmer 27]

I prefer and therefore request that the skip / forwarding function acts more as in MediaPortal.

 

So instead of as now in Emby, I can only skip forward by 30 seconds at a time, every time I press my right-button on my remote, on MediaPortal when pressing right-button

1st time - skips 15 seconds

2nd time - 30 seconds

3rd time - 1 minute

4th time - 3 minutes

5th time - 5 minutes

then 10, 15, 30, 60 minutes

 

MediaPortal waits 1-2 seconds, to see how many times you press the right-button, before jumping forward to the whished time.

 

I'm not sure if I remember them totally correctly, but the point is that if I want to jump 1 hour into a movie, right now that take A LOT of pressing on the right-button.

[GrimReaper 4740]

I prefer and therefore request that the skip / forwarding function acts more as in MediaPortal.

 

So instead of as now in Emby, I can only skip forward by 30 seconds at a time, every time I press my right-button on my remote, on MediaPortal when pressing right-button

1st time - skips 15 seconds

2nd time - 30 seconds

3rd time - 1 minute

4th time - 3 minutes

5th time - 5 minutes

then 10, 15, 30, 60 minutes

 

MediaPortal waits 1-2 seconds, to see how many times you press the right-button, before jumping forward to the whished time.

 

I'm not sure if I remember them totally correctly, but the point is that if I want to jump 1 hour into a movie, right now that take A LOT of pressing on the right-button.

Or use Chapters and do it in few clicks.

[Tremas 199]

I agree that there improvements could be made to skipping, and I eventually liked the mediaportal method when I used it, but if I remember there was quite a bit of discussion on the MP forums from people who hated it. The idea is good but I don’t think they implemented it well. Because it waits for you to complete inputs before skipping, many people (like my wife) would think it wasn’t working and keep pressing until it finally just skipped all the way to the end of the video leaving the user thinking something crashed. There were ways to tune the skip values but in my experience it took a lot of tweaking and was not clear or discoverable.

 

 

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[Spaceboy 2573]

No I really don’t like this. It’s one of the core reasons why I’ve never used kodi unless as a last resort

[jasonmcroy 316]

In Kodi you can adjust this though and turn it completely off, change how big of a jump you can do, etc. IF it were implemented in Emby it would have to be adjustable or have the ability to turn it off completely. I always change the behavior in Kodi to only skip 30 fwd and 10 back. 

 

I agree it's a cumbersome idea to have that behavior in general though. 

[clarkss12 304]

How about a button for "slow motion".  While watching a sporting event, it would be nice to watch a "play" in slow speed to see exactly what happened.  As I recall, my PAL DVR had that function.

 

Edit: Perfect example would have been used to see what disqualified the winner of the Kentucky Derby.......

 

Sorry, If I hijacked this thread.

Edited May 15, 2019 by clarkss12

[ebr 16184]

I think this will be moot with our new visual seeking with thumbs as you can just go exactly where you want.

[Tremas 199]

I think this will be moot with our new visual seeking with thumbs as you can just go exactly where you want.

That sounds great.

 

 

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[Spaceboy 2573]

Actually I agree that slow motion and fast motion would be far more beneficial that this request