How does the new bookmark feature work?

[mhale62]

So… just to sum up (for me, at least) bookmarks can be user-deleted only by rebooting the PH?

And does ten bookmarks mean ten per vid or ten total?

Pretty sure I know the answer to that one

[zraken]

Another suggestion for improvement if Syabas cares:
Since only 10 bookmarks are saved it would be nice to have an option to not bookmark when I quit watching a video. This way you wouldn't unnecessarily waste a bookmark slot for Videos that you don't care to bookmark. [Note: This is not to get back to the start of the Video which I can do by pressing Zero but it is to not delete the oldest bookmark]
The way it is implemented now i.e. always bookmark when you stop watching works for 99% of the times, since it is highly likely that you are going to return to that Video later.

[cheaper_popcorn]

(01-26-2009 01:28 AM)mhale62 Wrote:  does ten bookmarks mean ten per vid or ten total?

The work 'bookmark' creates a somewhat false impression. It is not possible to have several within the same file.

The current implementation supports one resume point per video, in the 10 latest videos that you did not finish watching completely.

[mhale62]

(01-29-2009 06:00 PM)cheaper_popcorn Wrote:  The work 'bookmark' creates a somewhat false impression. It is not possible to have several within the same file.

The current implementation supports one resume point per video, in the 10 latest videos that you did not finish watching completely.

Thank you, that's just what I wanted to know.

[Skywatcher]

(01-24-2009 03:18 PM)werner Wrote:  we will rework the hole Flash part with the next betas, so bookmarks, subtitle settings, ............... will get written into the flash, please you have to know that an Flash has an limited amount of writecycles, so if we write as hell on every change to the flash, then you can trash the NMT after one year because the flash would be dead.

Regards,
Werner

Is there battery backed SRAM? Seems like that would be a better place to write bookmarks.

[halfelite]

(01-26-2009 01:28 AM)mhale62 Wrote:  So… just to sum up (for me, at least) bookmarks can be user-deleted only by rebooting the PH?

And does ten bookmarks mean ten per vid or ten total?

Pretty sure I know the answer to that one

No from telnet you can run rm /tmp/mono_bookmark to clear the bookmarks. I have avi files go out of sync so i run a cron job to rm that file every 15 minutes.

[noxid8]

(01-24-2009 11:48 PM)toiday Wrote:  Does bookmark feature suppose to work for DVD playing? Doesn't work for me.

All my movies are VOBs (DVD) and this feature does not work for me either. Is there something we are doing wrong or is this a big that you can please fix.

I also like the option to use logic to determine if a HD is present, if so use that if not use flash.

Thanks.

[cheaper_popcorn]

(05-16-2009 05:03 AM)noxid8 Wrote:  All my movies are VOBs (DVD) and this feature does not work for me either. Is there something we are doing wrong or is this a big that you can please fix.

I also like the option to use logic to determine if a HD is present, if so use that if not use flash.

Thanks.

It's not really a bug, it's just that at present it does not work for VOBs or DVD ISOs or VIDEO_TS folders (the main reason for this situation being that these files are played back using a different player application than other video files, hence a separate feature has to be developed for that playback application).

I can't remember whether we have a promise from Syabas that this will be fixed or not.

As for your final sentence, this has also been requested before, but I don't think we have the request confirmed or refuted as yet either.

[hiflyer]

Quote:It's not really a bug, it's just that at present it does not work for VOBs or DVD ISOs or VIDEO_TS folders

I just bought an internal HDD partly so I could upgrade to the latest firmware to use bookmarks for my kids' ripped DVDs - and bookmarking won't work on them?! Seems to me VOBs, ISOs and VIDEO_TS would be the most important/frequent things to bookmark. Or are people using a different format for DVDs?

[cheaper_popcorn]

Quote:I just bought an internal HDD partly so I could upgrade to the latest firmware to use bookmarks for my kids' ripped DVDs - and bookmarking won't work on them?!

No need to shoot the messenger. I am not a Syabas representative. Just like everybody else on this forum with the exception of werner, I am just another user.

The bookmark feature should ideally work on all file types, of course. But since "mono" plays many more formats than "amp_test" (only DVD structures), it makes good sense to me that they started out implementing it in mono.

Quote:Seems to me VOBs, ISOs and VIDEO_TS would be the most important/frequent things to bookmark. Or are people using a different format for DVDs?

I don't know, but I would guess most people who back up their own DVDs do use DVD structures just like you - however, many users did not buy their NMT player primarily as a backup device for DVDs, but rather to watch high definition rips in .mkv format, and .avi (XviD and DivX) files, both of which are played by mono.

As for ripping DVDs to other formats, I know people talked about using mkv for that as well, but I am not familiar with the process and/or the limitations personally.

[hiflyer]

cheaper_popcorn - I didn't mean that as an attack on you, just a general whine.
The PCH for me is also as a music jukebox and HD player (new HD camcorder on the way too) so it's still quite useful - we were all just excited about the bookmarking.

Werner - any idea if bookmarking ISOs is in the future?

[werner]

right now no news, right now all resources are forced to work on the new device.