[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Bind to seek to a given percent

[compn]

On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 13:56:25 +0100, Clément Bœsch wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 08:03:29AM -0500, compn wrote:
>> On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 00:10:38 +0100, Clément Bœsch wrote:
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >It's the second time a person tells me he prefers GUI over classic MPlayer
>> >because the progress bar allows them to seek to a given position
>> >immediately. So I was wondering about making a default bind for this.
>> >
>> >It seems there is not current solution to bind a combination of keys, just
>> >like KEY_CTRL + '1', so I just binded F1 to F9 ('1' to '9' are for most of
>> >them already in use). I know this bind is not really good (especially for
>> >those using desktop managers) but I didn't find any better.
>> >
>> >What do you think of this?
>> 
>> i think the users like seeking with the mouse, which is how its done in
>> every other video player with a gui. even flash plugin/youtube.
>> 
>> maybe it would be wiser to just remove GUI and replace it with smplayer?
>> 
>
>Why smplayer? Why not gnome-mplayer? It seems to be maintained too
>(release 1.0.0 2 days ago), and imo lighter
>http://code.google.com/p/gnome-mplayer/downloads/list

because smplayer works on windows and linux like gmplayer.

i'm not all that happy about having another 9 keys just for seeking.
but after you figure out how to bind the Fx keys, maybe you can commit
it as commented out in input.conf for those few users who want function
key percentage seek.

-compn