Use smooth, accelerating backskip for continuous backskip

[quequotion]

At least for backskip, I'd like to be able to back skip a few frames as much as a few seconds or minutes.

I was thinking of a way to do that without the need for a configurable backskip preference, and I remembered how my old VCR used to work: if one tried to rewind or fast forward during playback, the speed picked up slowly at first and then speed up as time went on.

For audience's keyboard backskip: When backskip is pressed continuously (over keyboard repeat threshold? a timer could be faster...), starts slow (~5fps) and gradually increases speed (~1.5x(current fps) every 3s, start jumping the default number of frames at 3~4x(video speed)).

Since Audience is not a VCR, the action for a single tap on backskip--to jump back the default number of frames--could be kept as-is.

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

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On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 1:52 PM, quequotion <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> At least for backskip, I'd like to be able to back skip a few frames as
> much as a few seconds or minutes.
>
> I was thinking of a way to do that without the need for a configurable
> backskip preference, and I remembered how my old VCR used to work: if
> one tried to rewind or fast forward during playback, the speed picked up
> slowly at first and then speed up as time went on.
>
> For audience's keyboard backskip: When backskip is pressed continuously
> (over keyboard repeat threshold? a timer could be faster...), starts
> slow (~5fps) and gradually increases speed (~1.5x(current fps) every 3s,
> start jumping the default number of frames at 3~4x(video speed)).
>
> Since Audience is not a VCR, the action for a single tap on backskip--to
> jump back the default number of frames--could be kept as-is.
>
> ** Affects: audience
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
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