Variable Mobile Playback Scrubbing

[Lightfire228]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. When watching long videos (2+hours), finding a specific timestamp is quite difficult because of how fine the time-steps are in relation to a fixed (and small) screen size.

Describe the solution you'd like When dragging the playback slider, horizontal finger displacement should change the current timestamp (as usual), but vertical finger displacement should set the granularity of the timestep when scrubbing.

So the farther away you move your finger from the playback slider, the slower the speed the slider moves horizontally

The feature would behave quite similar to this concept (credit to @svkvms on the discord for that link)

Additional context This feature idea came from a really old iOS Cydia youtube client (like iOS 6 old). I cannot find the name of it anymore

[Frontesque]

This is great. Ill find a way to implement it!

[novocaiin]

@Frontesque I think the YouTube app solves this by having a gesture for fine-grained scrubbing. The gesture is activated by long-pressing anywhere and sliding horizontally (as opposed to moving the bottom slider). I like it because it's both easy to initiate (since you don't have to aim for the slider) and hard to trigger accidentally (since there's a ~half a sec delay).

[Frontesque]

@Frontesque I think the YouTube app solves this by having a gesture for fine-grained scrubbing. The gesture is activated by long-pressing anywhere and sliding horizontally (as opposed to moving the bottom slider). I like it because it's both easy to initiate (since you don't have to aim for the slider) and hard to trigger accidentally (since there's a ~half a sec delay).

good to know. I haven't used the stock YouTube app in a long time, so thanks.