Re: [Usability]Movie Player seek bar problems

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

One traditional solution is to have a "jog-dial" (obviously it would be
inappropriate to implement this as a dial in an on-screen interface)
that allows control over the speed of fast-forward instead of directly
controlling position.

On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 14:03, John McCutchan wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am wondering what suggestions the usability folks have on this problem
> with a seek bar in a movie player. The seek bar doesn't have high
> enough resolution to quickly seek to a specific location in a 2 hour
> movie. So if I want to watch the movie starting at the 45 minute mark
> I usually go through this process, use seek bar to get to somewhere
> around 45 minutes, then jump back and forth around the 45 minute mark
> until I get 'lucky' enough to get close enough to the 45 minute mark
> that I am satisified. Two possible solutions to this would be
> make the seek bar large enough to get a certain resolution out of it.
> Or have a dialog where you could input the exact time that you want
> to start viewing from. Any suggestions/comments?
> 
> John
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