Time Of Day progress bar display option

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Aeneas
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Time Of Day progress bar display option

Postby Aeneas » 27 Sep 2017 18:00

A feature which would have widespread utility would be to use
the Windows "Date Created" information, available from Windows Explorer,
to implement a select-able mode
in which the actual Time-Of-Day is displayed in the VLC window progress bar,
instead of the time-displacement since the beginning of the file.

Some files could be 10 hours long, during which a specific event is known
to have occurred at a certain time of day.
Much of this type of viewing, and perhaps editing (VLC-Record), requires the user
to look at the Date Created, do some arithmetic on fingers thumbs and toes,
to derive the desired file displacement point.
(e.g. a goal, try or touchdown was scored in 39th minute).

If VLC developers find this full implementation too difficult,
a fallback implementation would be to allow the user to enter
the time-of-day of the beginning of the file from their keyboard from reading
their Windows Explorer display columns themselves, and
have the program allow the user to select "File Created time displacement display".
The user may have to explicitly configure their Windows Explorer display
to add the Date Created column, which is trivial.
This fallback implementation should be trivial.

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Re: Time Of Day progress bar display option

Postby clemenzina » 30 Sep 2017 20:02

I asked for "display/record date & time" years ago. Mederi (to whom, kudos!) tried to write a code for me but it didn't work out. Such a feature would save so much work and so many headaches.

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Re: Time Of Day progress bar display option

Postby Aeneas » 30 Sep 2017 21:42

I asked for "display/record date & time" years ago. Mederi (to whom, kudos!) tried to write a code for me but it didn't work out. Such a feature would save so much work and so many headaches.
I downloaded the code years back, but the instructions for building
the code were vague and I never got to the point of modifying it.
Most of my development is using cross-compilers on the Windows
platform, and it seemed this thing's development context is Linux.

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Re: Time Of Day progress bar display option

Postby clemenzina » 02 Oct 2017 01:42

I can't write code at all, Aeneas - and I can't take time out to learn (which would be very time-consuming, where I'm concerned, and with no guarantee of success ;) ).


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