Need to Add Skip-Durations Preferences

[Lonnie Lee Best]

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The preferences menu in Totem Movie Player should allow you to configure "skip-durations", meaning the amount of time that the movie player skips forward and backward upon hitting the right and left arrow buttons (on the keyboard <for me>).

I watch a lot of pool videos, and after a person shoots a good shot, I want to watch it again, but find that the Totem movie player skips too far back, and I have to re-watch the player "think about the shot" (when all I really want to see is the shot itself).

Also, when a player is thinking, I'd like to skip forward to the shot itself. But again, Totem movie player skips too far ahead, and I miss seeing the shot altogether.

You're never going to have defaults that please everyone, but the preferences menu should be a place that each person can set this duration to their liking.

I've been missing this feature for some time, but just now decided to document it here.

[Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport)]

What would be really cool, is if you could right-click on the buttons themselves, and upon doing so, a context menu pops up that allows you to immediately adjust this duration. That way, as you watch different types of videos, you could immediately adjust the skip-durations to your liking for the type of videos your watching.

That may be wishful hoping, but the idea of simply putting these options in the preference menu is something I'd expected to already be.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, this is known upstream and also the playback slow motion is going to be added there which i think it might help a lot to improve your workflow , the upstream bug is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=417141 . Thanks in advance.

[Jan Claeys (janc)]

Something many people don't know, but is documented in the on-line Help: you can make short jumps by holding Shift down while pressing Left or Right arrow.