Hello, i have a question/suggestion.
Let’s say we have a lot of markers.
Does this plugin allows to watch the samples set by those markers randomly, and without having to generate the video samples ?
To be clearer, i currently don’t use the markers because it generates a low res video sample for each marker.
Though i’m interrested by the time ranges that you can set with the marker fuctionnality (with a start and end time stamp).
I would use the markers to create a random compilation playlist, which would jump from video to video and show only the parts of the videos set by the markers.
The idea is to use the original videos, not samples of those videos, but just jump at the start time code and switch to the next video/part of the video when the end time code comes.
This is a feature that would work great with your plugin, you could create and watch in real time some best of / quick cut of all your favorite video parts.
Imho the real challenge is to be able to jump from one video part to another seamlessly, without cut or loading. That should include some kind of solid preload mechanics.
@mf35 Yes, it does let you watch markers even if you haven’t generated low res samples. It will just play that segment of the scene and only show that portion of the video of the video progress bar.
There is the option to show the low res sample instead (useful if your internet is bad) but that is not enabled by default.
To randomly jump between makers just make a saved maker filter in stash and that should let you play makers.
The initial loading isn’t always perfect. It will generally show the first frame of the full scene for a second and sometimes if the video is in a format that makes it hard for the browser to jump straight to the right place you might notice it flicking through earlier parts of the scene until it reaches the marker segment. That’s something I might be improve when I have time to look at improving preloading.
That’s working nicely, thank you.
I can emit two suggestions if you allow me.
There are two transition effects, one is a sliding/swiping and one is a crt effect.
Could you add the option for a simple cut transition too ?
Because when the markers are short (like 3 or 4 seconds), the slide transition effect becomes kinda nauseous on desktop fullscreen.
My second suggestion is linked with my previous post.
Would it be possible to make the plugin play random parts of random videos for a random (or a set) amount of time ? So it doesn’t rely on markers but choose randomly some sections of the videos. (Edit: i think it is already on your roadmap, isn’t it ?)
Thank you again for your plugin, it achieves something i was debating for since several years.
when the markers are short (like 3 or 4 seconds), the slide transition effect becomes kinda nauseous on desktop fullscreen
That’s a fair point. I’m hesitant to add an option if there’s a way of doing without an option so instead I’ve disabled the slide transition for any videos shorter than 30s. Try updating the plugin and let me know if that works for you.
Would it be possible to make the plugin play random parts of random videos for a random (or a set) amount of time
Yep! It’s on the roadmap. I’ll hopefully get to that soon and I’ll let you know when I do.
I’ve pushed a bunch of new updates recently. Including a new setting to control the start point. It doesn’t let you set the end time but you can set it to start playing from a random point so hopefully that’s still somewhat useful for you @mf35
This is awesome, thanks for working on this. One suggestion that’s probably a heavier lift, so maybe more of a long term goal: some kind of performer interface that mimics TikTok/Instagram style user profiles. You could tap on the performer from a given video and it would bring you to their profile page, from which you could swipe through all of that performer’s videos. Or short of that, maybe just link directly to the performer’s Stash page.
Also just echoing others’ requests for a simple rating interface, or even just a like button.
Thank you this is great.
The only suggestion i would make is the possibility to set a fixed or a random duration for the videos before it switches. (a random duration set between a minimum and a maximum).
Awesome plugin.
(oh and maybe an option to hide or auto hide the progress bar, at least in full screen mode )
@camcarter123 I’ve actually been thinking about some like that for a while. It will probably be a longer term feature though. And ratings are definitely coming, probably up next.
@mf35 That’s definitely doable, I’ve added that to my list to do at some point. And clicking the three dots button in the bottom right corner should already hide the progress bar but it looks like that’s broken at the moment so I’ll work on a fix for that.
I was playing around today and came up with this. I like the idea of cards better for a mobile ui because we can browse more like reddit/redgifs. We can also load multiple sources at the same time which makes scrolling have a better flow
And I made it a bit eaierr to browse different tags and make it more like a discovery feature. With links to performers and scenes
Instead of me publishing my own fork, maybe you could incorporate some elements of this
Wow! I love it, very slick looking. There’s definitely some stuff there that I’ve been wanting to add to tv already (like search and viewing all tags for a scene). Although I think if it were to be adopted into tv rather than a card based ui replacing a slide one I think there they serve slightly different use cases and there’s room for both. I could imagine a toggle for switching between the two styles. I think it could be quite nice to be able to swap between both formats.
Unfortunately I probably don’t have the capacity to do that myself. After I get a couple more features done that I’ve been thinking of doing next (rating and an end point setting) I’m probably going to deliberately step back a bit from working on tv to deal with some other priorities in my life. I’m still planning on working on tv after that, just at a slower pace.
I’m be open to PRs though if you’re interested in integrating. Give how big of a change this is it’d probably be a good idea to have a quick chat first to work out how we’d want approach that.
If that’s more of a hassle than it’s worth for you (which I’d completely understand) then it might just make more sense to do as a fork.
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