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#9277: remember last play position on a video/DVD to resume from it later
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Written by ktulu77 the 30 May 08 at 19:18.
Category: Multimedia.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
Add the possibility to choose to remember the play position of a video before quitting so we can resume the video (or the DVD) from where we stopped the next time we open it.
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holizz wrote on the 31 May 08 at 08:00
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Yes! Definately.
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Eldmannen wrote on the 31 May 08 at 13:06
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Then it will save it to a cache, and it will be bad for privacy because you can be able to determine what someone has seen.
Nobody quits watching a movie anyway, that sucks. When I watch a movie, I watch it all, from beginning to the end without any stop.
Unless its porno, then I skip straight to the action!
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Auzy wrote on the 1 Jun 08 at 09:15
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OSX does this, and many Windows programs do too..
But which programs are you referring to here?
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jonaskoelker wrote on the 6 Jun 08 at 03:53
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As a side note, okular seems to be doing something similar with pdf files. This is a complete misfit for the way I work: when I launch program/file, I expect to be put at the beginning of the file. When I quit the program, I'm done; please forget all state.
Adding memory means I have to rewind; I have to do more work. If you want to resume where you left off, why not just leave the program open?
For programs with a lot of state (say, konqueror) it would make sens to save it as a safeguard against crashes, but this also not really apllies for media playback: you can easily remember where you left off. Either that, or you weren't really watching.
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Auzy wrote on the 6 Jun 08 at 03:56
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It can just ask if you want to resume jonas.. You'd only do it for DVD's anyway
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mambazo wrote on the 12 Jul 08 at 11:58
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Solution is simple, add two very simple configuration options:
- Resume from last position.
- Resume from last video.
The first option will start a video from the last place it was when it was closed. The second option will auto load the last video playing when totem was closed.
This feature is too useful to just put aside. And it should not be for dvd's alone. It should be for all files played in totem.
Eldmannen, if I am using the same account as u did, then I can already see what you played last, I don't need this feature to do it. Plus, there are plenty of cases where I might stop a dvd in the middle (even if it wasn't porno). I may wish to finish the movie later due to a power cut or emergency. Or it could be a tv series dvd, which i definitely won't watch all in one go.
Jonaskoelker, not everyone can keep every application they use constantly running. Many can't keep the computer all all the time either. And what's with this bullshit about easily remembering where I left. What's easier: opening a video and pressing back to rewind it to the beginning, or laborously using the search bar to find exactly where I had been last to continue watching.
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