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Cannot skip forward or backward when casting
Describe the bug
When casting a video to Chromecast, it's not possible to skip forward or backward in the video except by dragging the seek bar.
The remote control interface lacks buttons for this functionality, having only buttons whose purpose is presumably to skip to the next or previous video (but which don't seem to work, and whose intended purpose is less clear when playing a move versus a TV show .. maybe they only work when playing a video from a play list?).
The notification has buttons which look like they should perform this function, but when you press them, the Chromecast player seems to hang on a black screen. The only ways to recover seem to be to seek manually with the slider at the bottom or to exit and restart the video.
To Reproduce
- Cast to a Chromecast
- Start a video (I haven't tried with audio)
- Pull down the notifications drawer
- Tap the forward or backward skip button
- The video on the Chromecast is gone
Expected behavior
Tapping these buttons should skip forward x seconds (default 30) or backward y seconds (default 10), and the video should resume playing.
Logs
N/A
Screenshots
The ⏩ and ⏪ buttons in this notification are the ones I assume are for skipping x and y seconds within the current video. The ⏭️ and ⏮ buttons don't seem to do anything.
After pressing one of the skip buttons, the video seems to be stuck at 0:00.
System (please complete the following information):
- App version: v2.0.0-rc.
- Android version: Android 9
- Device manufacturer and model: Google Pixel 2
- Jellyfin server version: 10.6.3-1
- The type of video player implementation used: Chromecast
Additional context
There is a similar issue currently open for the Cordova client. It doesn't appear that the reporter of that issue tried the skip buttons in the notification, however, I've experienced the same behavior in the Cordova client as I've reported here for the new client.
The design has changed i latest version (2.0.0.rc.5 with server 1.6.4) to a progressbar for skipping.
The 'Next track' [>|] and 'Previous track' [|<] buttons work if you have more than one movie in the queue.
I think there should be two extra buttons for skip forward/backward [>>] [<<] It's really hard to skip ads with the slider.
I propose a Close issue.
- the UI has changed and no longer have the Skip-buttons.
- Previous/next-buttons work as intended.
I think skip forward/backward is an essential feature for a media player, e.g. when someone interrupts you and you just want hear the last sentence again. Doing that with a progress bar is almost impossible. You always end up going back too far.
I think skip forward/backward is an essential feature for a media player, e.g. when someone interrupts you and you just want hear the last sentence again. Doing that with a progress is almost impossible. You always end up going back too far.
That's a good point, maybe we can make it dependent on media type (e.g. audio books and podcasts get the skip buttons, music doesn't), or dependent on track length. Or, if necessary, as a user-configurable option.
I can't imagine ever not wanting the skip forward/backward buttons. Why wouldn't you want to be able to skip back and forward in music? "Oh, what was that lyric? Let me rewind a few seconds and listen to it again." And the only reason the track length should determine the visibility of skip buttons might be if the length of the track were shorter than the skip, but IMO, special casing that would be unnecessary complexity in the code and potentially confusing to the user.
Please provide skip buttons all the time. So far, this issue has only progressed backward, as they've been removed from the one place they existed. This is the opposite of what I was hoping for.
My vote would definitely be to have fast forward/rewind buttons present at all times. I find myself wanting to make small skips in movies / TV shows all the time, but doing so the progress bar is pretty much impossible. They're present in the web player for video - why not make the interfaces consistent?
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Does it mean this feature isn't considered? This is desparately needed when playing podcasts/audiobooks.
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Wow I'm so disappointed to discover that Jellyfin developpers don't see an interest in Next/previous buttons ! I probably was too naive to think Jellyfin was a media player but it looks more like Plex in developing stuffs without taking care it works or what users need/want ! Right now I have discovered that Jellyfin client on Android is unusable to listen music on a cast device ! Next/skip buttons don't show up in Jellyfin interface (how is that even possible for a media player ???) and basically player stops always at end of first track played and next/stop that shows up in Android notifications of Jellyfin are inoperative !
Any update on this topic? This issue still applies. Buttons that skip forward/backward by some small number of seconds are needed when casting video to a Chromecast device.
We don't have any developer working on Google Cast related projects right now. So no updates.
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