On 28/12/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ed W</b> <<a href="mailto:lists@wildgooses.com">lists@wildgooses.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Ronald Frazier wrote:<br>> I was doing a little work on tv_play.cpp, fixing some bugs with the<br>> network control interface and adding some customizability with respect<br>> to playback speeds and repositioning amounts. In the process, I
<br>> noticed that fast forwarding and the speedinc button use different<br>> intervals. Fast forwarding currently uses speeds of 3, 5, 10, 20, 30,<br>> 60, 120, and 180, and allows you to customize the speed via DB
<br>> settings. The speedinc feature, on the other hand, uses speeds of 2,<br>> 4, 8, and 16, and is NOT customizable.<br>><br>> Myself, I've never used the speedinc feature before, and I'm not sure<br>
> how it is intended to be used. Is it intentional that these 2 features<br>> use different speed steppings? I could choose to either consolidate it<br>> with the fast forward speeds (so they share a common set of speeds),
<br>> or I could leave it on its own and allow it to be customized<br>> separately. Any opinions<br><br>I think the idea of the second one is that it plays back all the frames<br>at an accelerated speed, but the former jumps and seeks
<br><br>Personally I would prefer a kind of hybrid which allows a Sky+ style<br>fast forward where say instead of a 30 second skip forward it will<br>instead play 15 frames over the next 1 real second where each frame is<br>
every 2 seconds of what is being skipped. That way it becomes easier to<br>kind of glance at what you are missing by skipping forward. ie<br>basically a range of very high speed fast forward modes<br><br>Ed W<br><br>_______________________________________________
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</blockquote></div><br><br>How would that differ from the sticky keys option myth already has?<br><br>Ash<br>