Colored progress bar in gecko-mediaplayer

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Go to stagevu and open any video

What is the expected output? 
Would be nice if the progress bar could get some background color as it 
buffers, like in youtube or windows divx player. Then I could click on any 
colored part of the progress bar to browse the cached video.

What do you see instead?
I see the percentage of the video already downloaded, but I cannot move forward 
or backwards clicking on the progress bar (or even with shortcuts).

What version of the product are you using? 
Version 0.9.9.2

On what operating system?
Ubuntu Lucid 64 & Ubuntu Maverick 64

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jsevi83 on 24 Sep 2010 at 12:27

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Maybe the Type should be Enhancement, not Defect. What do you think about this 
anyway? Totem mozilla plugin is also behaving this way.

Original comment by jsevi83 on 30 Sep 2010 at 10:01

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if video is streaming, I disable the seeking as generally mplayer doesn't do 
that well. For media that is locally cached, the seeking is disabled until the 
video starts playing and then you should be able to seek within the cached 
amount.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 30 Sep 2010 at 12:39

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Is there any way to enable the seeking on a streaming video? What do you think 
about the colored progress bar idea, to show the cached video like in youtube?

Original comment by jsevi83 on 10 Oct 2010 at 10:11

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Like I said, seeking in streaming video is disabled, mainly since when you try 
to seek, mplayer makes you wait quite a long time when the seeking performed, 
generally just as long as the amount you seek forward. Backward seeking is even 
worse in some cases. 

As for the colored progress bar, there was older code that did it and it was 
taken out as people like the standard controls for the player.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 11 Oct 2010 at 4:34

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I doubt that "people" don't like background color in the progress bar showing 
how much of the video is in cache. Youtube is again a good example. And I like 
the standard controls for the player, I don't suggest to change them.

BTW, I use mplayer (ubuntu maverick version) manually to watch streaming videos 
and I don't have to wait when I seek forward/backward.

Original comment by jsevi83 on 19 Oct 2010 at 1:18

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The standard widget GTKVScale, does not have a way to show that. I had copied 
the youtube control bar and had that feature, but the general consensus was to 
use an interface similar to totem, which does not have the capability.

As for seeking, it really depends on the site and the protocol. Some sites work 
properly, some don't. So rather than have it broken, I disable it for true 
streams. 

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 19 Oct 2010 at 1:32

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There might be something that can be done with the display.. let me look some 
more

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 19 Oct 2010 at 1:35

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SVN r1767 should have a patch it in to show the cache status. I was unaware of 
the function to do this. Thanks for bringing this up.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 19 Oct 2010 at 1:47

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Thanks to you. So, do you think this enhancement will make it to the 1.0 final 
release?

Original comment by jsevi83 on 20 Oct 2010 at 11:30

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yes it will

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 20 Oct 2010 at 12:38

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Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 20 Oct 2010 at 12:38

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