difficulties with user interface during dvd playback

[brainchild0]

I have been experiencing some challenges in usability while playing DVD media. My use pattern is to open a directory on persistent media that represents a capture of the files on a DVD, without any modification of format.

Following are some observations I have made:

• Forward and reverse jump cannot cross chapter boundaries. Once the boundary is reached, repeated invocation of the action simply returns to the chapter boundary.
• When used near a chapter boundary, invocation of one of these actions often moves the playback position toward the direction opposite of the action. For example, attempting to jump backward from the end of a chapter may actually move the position forward to the boundary of the next chapter.
• There is no indication of any keyboard shortcut for these actions, such as through a tooltip popup. (Ideally, the actions might be available not only on the toolbar, but also on the menu bar, with shortcuts displayed.)

I am running Celluloid 0.21 on Cinnamon 5.2.6 with Linux Mint 20.3.

[gnome-mpv]

I have been experiencing some challenges in usability while playing DVD media. My use pattern is to open a directory on persistent media that represents a capture of the files on a DVD, without any modification of format.

Are you playing directly from a physical DVD? If so, it would be better to open the DVD using Open Disc in the + menu. Opening a directory will load the files inside as separate playlist items. That's why you can't seek across the boundaries.

There is no indication of any keyboard shortcut for these actions, such as through a tooltip popup. (Ideally, the actions might be available not only on the toolbar, but also on the menu bar, with shortcuts displayed.)

There's a dialog with information on keyboard shortcuts. You can open it by clicking on Keyboard Shortcuts in the ☰ menu.

[brainchild0]

Are you playing directly from a physical DVD?

I have copied the files from a DVD to local hard disk.

There's a dialog with information on keyboard shortcuts. You can open it by clicking on Keyboard Shortcuts in the ☰ menu.

This information is useful, but not everyone would think to look in such a location for a reference of keyboard shortcuts, nor would wish to look there each time reference is needed. It would be useful to provide a more immediate indication of the shortcuts, in addition to the full reference.