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voctoweb – the frontend and backend software behind media.ccc.de
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Feature request: Crowdsourced timestamps/chapters #746

Open Tortoc opened 1 month ago

Tortoc commented 1 month ago

Today i was watching some talks because of boring and Corona ( :c ) and found a talk where i wanted to skip through faster and thought it would be nice to have some timestamps in the videos. Timestamps for the questions at the End (where the question asked is a timestamp - because you can't see them in the preview) would be really nice.

In my opinion subtitles would be also a massive improvement. Maybe include some additional commentary from the speaker?

Maybe a kind of gamified backend UI with points and rewards to crowdsource it would be a thing.

saerdnaer commented 1 week ago

Subtitles are a totally different topic which we already implemented, or are re-implementing right now. So let's focus this issue on Chapters/Timestamps:

I don't think that gamification would work for use, be cause we do not have the time to fine-tune such a system. In on of the other issues here in this repository we came to the conclusion we would need a way to manage the metadata of a individual item (aka Lecture/Talk/Event/Session) in a similar way like source code with Pull-Requests etc.

But first we should implement