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by ryantriangles 2585 days ago
Popular video file players have supported generating iframe tracks for fast forwarding and thumbnail scrubbing for many years now, is there something about the way eg MPCBE and PotPlayer operate that is somehow unreasonable?
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zbobet2012 2585 days ago
It's terrible performance on a power limited devices. It either burns up your battery or is unreasonably slow. Particularly when the source stream is high resolution or complexity.
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Rychard 2585 days ago
Sure, but if you have the file, you could generate these ahead of time on a more powerful machine.

At any rate, I don't think users would balk at being given a choice.

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afiori 2585 days ago
> You could of course build a "file based" implementation that had all of these features, but you would just be rebuilding DASH or HLS.
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auggierose 2585 days ago
Yeah, but would they pay for it?
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