[mythtv-users] Set bookmark on pause

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sun Jan 17 19:18:00 UTC 2010


On 01/17/2010 12:36 PM, Mike Perkins wrote:
> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>
>> Yeah, that's one of the reasons for the patch.  It's part of some "smart
>> preview pixmap" changes that will allow me to finally get rid of the
>> useless "preview pixmap offset" setting.
>>
> Do you have any plans to include a "Don't generate previews" option?

My plan was to reduce the number of options, actually.  :)

> I find them a complete waste of time. Reason: they *never* show
> anything of relevance. Either I get one (unreadable) page of the
> credits for the previous program, or a random frame of an advert, or
> something else equally meaningful. I find them a complete irritation.
>
> I would rather not waste time generating the things in the first
> place. In mythweb particularly there can be a delay in displaying the
> "recorded" page while these get generated.

MythWeb does have a setting for disabling display of the previews.  You
would need that, anyway--even if there were a setting to disable preview
generation.

> In the front end not so much, but they're still pointless.
>
> The space is not so important, but is also a waste. And don't tell me
> "it's only xxKiB (or MiB), what's the problem", because I'm using
> large block allocation and there is a minimum space reserved for each
> block on the disk. Perhaps that problem will get resolved when
> previews can get allocated their own storage area, but I'd still
> rather not do it at all.

That's something I've been considering doing (though each time I get
started someone convinces me that it's not worthwhile--even with the
file system block sizes).  I still might get to it, but it will be part
of a larger preview generation change.

> Oh, yeah, back on topic. In my household viewing tends to get paused
> quite a lot due to various interruptions. I'd rather deliberately set
> a bookmark if I wanted to stop viewing now and resume later than have
> a whole heap of bookmarks and have to guess which one was relevant.

The bookmarks would be very well organized.  There will be a "main"
bookmark which will act exactly like the current "there can be only one"
bookmark (i.e. playback resumes from that bookmark when you start
playback with play, you jump to that bookmark with the JUMPBOOKMARK (or
whatever it's called) button, ...).  The auto-generated bookmarks will
be kept separate from any user-set bookmarks.  (The auto-generated
bookmarks will likely include the commercial endings in the flag list
and/or cut-point resume points in addition to the pause bookmarks.  I'm
also assuming that we'll clear pause bookmarks--perhaps after completing
a new playback session, we clear the pause bookmarks from the older
playback session.)

Mike



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