[feature request] Resume playback from last position

[peguerosdc]

Hi!

Is it in the road map a feature to jump to a specific minute while playing a file?

This would be useful if you find yourself in the situation of having to stop casting a movie (or a long duration file) but you have already watched half of it (or something like that). Right now if you want to resume it later, you have to watch the whole movie again until you reach the point you left (or cut the file with ffmpeg, but that's not handy). A possible implementation could be a progress bar above the volume bar.

Thanks! (I apologise if this is already possible, but I can't find it neither in the documentation nor in the UI).

[Rafostar]

Hi,

Seeking is only possible when you are not transcoding a movie.

By default there is a single slider that changes from seeking to volume control by clicking icon next to it. There is an option "Unify sliders" in Remote tab in settings. It allows changing from default toggle slider into two separate sliders if you prefer that.

As for transcoding, I am planning to add a resume from last position option in the future.

[peguerosdc]

Oh, I see! That explains it all as most of the times I am transcoding my files.

Thank you very much! That "resume" option would be a great addition in the future 😄

[Rafostar]

That "resume" option would be a great addition in the future

And then you renamed this feature request into "Media seeking when transcoding". "Media seeking when transcoding" will not be supported, cause it would require the "transcode and then cast" approach that I do not like. As an example for a 2GB movie it would require to: read 2GB of HDD when transcoding, save around 2GB of output to HDD and then read again 2GB during streaming (not to mention the waiting time for transcoding to finish). This solution seems pretty dumb, so it wont be supported. Anyone can transcode manually and then cast using various available tools and you would get the seeking this way, so implementing this inside the extension makes no sense to me.

Resume playback from last position, on the other hand is a totally reasonable option. So I will rename this feature request to it.