[Feature Request] Flash seek length

[SandWoodJones]

Is it possible to implement flashing of how many seconds were skipped or rewound? For example, this is how youtube tackles this:

[tomasklaen]

I wouldn't be against this, but the seek event mpv sends doesn't have any data attached to it that would tell us the length and direction of the seek. We'd have to determine that through some hacks, which I don't like.

Also, it might be noisy, since according to docs, seek event is also fired when mpv itself causes a seek internally, for example when watching ordered matroska chapters, and potentially other reasons. You don't want this to pop up in these situations, and there's no way to differentiate.

So, it's not practical to implement at this moment.

[Solarunit]

I use native mpv seek osd at the top-left corner, it's less intrusive. Any popup in the center (not on top or bottom) of the video would annoy me.

[SandWoodJones]

What if it was just a script binding? Since seek doesn't have data attached you'd have to pass the length as a parameter. Would this then be possible?

left seek  -5; script-binding uosc/flash-seek-indicator -5
right seek   5; script-binding uosc/flash-seek-indicator 5

[avatar70t]

RIGHT seek 5 ;show-text "[${playlist-pos-1}/${playlist-count}] ${time-pos} / ${duration}(${percent-pos}%)\n>>5s"
LEFT seek -5 ;show-text "[${playlist-pos-1}/${playlist-count}] ${time-pos} / ${duration}(${percent-pos}%)\n<<5s"