[mythtv-users] Set bookmark on pause

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sat Jan 16 17:52:27 UTC 2010


On 01/16/2010 12:05 PM, Jim Stichnoth wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Jim Stichnoth wrote:
>   
>> I was always a little envious of this U-Verse feature:
>>
>>  Pause a recorded show and pick up where you left off in another room.
>>
>> because with family interruptions, it's never certain that a paused
>> show will be resumed on the same TV.  If I think ahead, I can set a
>> bookmark after pausing, but I don't usually think ahead, so I would
>> like for pause to automatically set a bookmark.
>>
>> Has there ever been discussion of this option?  Clearly we don't want
>> yet another config option and settings table entry, but it seems
>> reasonable for pause to automatically set the bookmark only when the
>> AltClearSavedPosition setting is disabled.  I made a simple patch for
>> this, but I won't bother submitting it if this feature has been
>> discussed and rejected in the past.
>>     

That sounds like a good idea.  I'm planning a rework of bookmarks to
allow multiple bookmarks per recording (with a nice bookmark select
dialog complete with thumbnails available for selection).

When I work on it, I'll plan to include automatic bookmarks at pause
(with names something like, "Pause bookmark (Jan 16, 2010, 12:50)," or
whatever.

With the current "one bookmark per video" approach, it would require a
new setting to get permission to overwrite bookmarks just because of
pause, so I'd prefer we not put such a feature in SVN.  (Though it
wouldn't be difficult for you to modify your local copy--and feel free
to post a patch here for others to use.)

Mike


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