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theothernt / AerialViews

A screensaver for Android TV devices including Nvidia Shield, Fire TV, and Chromecast with Google TV. Inspired by Apple TV's video screensaver.
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Seeking while a video is playing? #98

Open wrybread opened 1 year ago

wrybread commented 1 year ago

I keep needing to seek while a video is playing. To watch a section again, etc. Is that possible currently?

theothernt commented 1 year ago

It is possible as Aerial Views is just a video player with the controls either disabled or customised.

Having a seek feature similar to Netflix or YouTube (the UI part,, etc) would take a while, what's more likely is an option to seek or skip in maybe 10 or 30 second segments with a left or right press of the d-pad.

I know that some Android TVs, devices have remotes with fast-forward/rewind buttons so it may be possible to give an option to use that instead.

wrybread commented 1 year ago

what's more likely is an option to seek or skip in maybe 10 or 30 second segments with a left or right press of the d-pad.

That would do it. I don't see a reason to have fine resolution seeking, just 10 seconds per button push would do it

I know that some Android TVs, devices have remotes with fast-forward/rewind buttons so it may be possible to give an option to use that instead.

My Chromecast with Google TV doesn't have media buttons (though I wish it did), so personally I'd prefer maybe d-pad up/down for seeking.

theothernt commented 10 months ago

So, my current thinking on this is to have an option to change what left/right up/down does within the app.

That means you'll have 3 actions to choose from, but you can only apply 2.

As I'm working on a few major features at the moment, this may take 2 or 3 months.