Not bookmarks; just remember automatically

[gerryscat]

Even if bookmarks worked it does not sound ideal. GOM Player has be perfect solution: just remember where I was when watching something. Next time I start it, it starts from where I was.

If that wasn't clear enough, an example: say I'm watching Hell Boy II, I am 55 minutes 10 seconds into the movie but it is getting late. So I shutdown the computer. Next day I start Hell Boy II again and it magically starts at 55 minutes, 10 seconds. That would be sweet.

[VLC_help]

Position save is little problematic, because you cannot seek all files/streams (so you cannot return to same position) which would make the feature inconsistent among different streams/files.

[bab5470]

Its funny I just had the exact same thought and was coming to request this feature too.

Right now I'm in the middle of watching a movie but windows wants to reboot to finish installing security patches.I could finish watching the movie and then reboot but windows is going to keep nagging me to reboot incessantly. I could also write down the name of the file, and the current time and then manually reopen the file, and jump to approximately the same place but what a pain! I'm spoiled by session restoring in web browsers and now want to be able to reboot and have all my programs resume where they were before the reboot.

Understandably perhaps this feature cannot be implemented due to restrictions to some file formats but for those formats it does support it would be a great feature request. Maybe for file types where this doesn't work, VLC could simply prompt when closing:

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The file type you have opened does not support resuming.
As such we will not be able to restore your current position when you reopen VLC.

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Maybe make the "resume" feature optional too so that those users that don't want this functionality don't have to use it. Anyway just I thought. I would LOVE this feature personally.