[Feature] Switching the Bookmarks on and off

[Kaj]

I can't imagine that I'm the only one in need of this feature, but it seems that searching the forums on the subject didn't return a useful answer, so my apologies if I missed it after all.

Once a year, I'm taking my C200 out of its usual habitat (my livingroom) and use it as a movie player at a film festival I'm hosting, and would love to make it forget the auto-resume bookmarks, or switch them off entirely during the festival.
I can't keep on instructing every one of my video-crew to press 0 every time they accidentally start the footage before it's due.
It's a useful feature, but remembering to push this key and then push Stop immediately after is not something I expect everyone to do where just about every other manufacturer out there configures the Stop-button to forget the bookmark when pressed a second time.

Is there any way to do this?

[Omertron]

You might be able to write a small shell script to delete the bookmarks from the bookmark folder
You could then run that with cron every 'x' minutes

[accident]

If your ok with just them reset, I can think of 2 options. 1 is factory resetting. The other is it only stores the last 10 bookmarks. grab yourself a little trailer and keep renaming and playing it until you replaced the bookmarks..

Not ideal but it would work out for your film festival.

[plm]

+1. I'd love this as well.

What I'd really like, in conjunction with this, would be the option to store the bookmarks in a specified folder, so you could put them on a network share. That way you can start watching something in one room, stop it, and then resume from a different room on a different player. That's about the only time I actually want to use the bookmark feature at all!

[accident]

Just thought of 2 more options..

1: http doesn't bookmark if that's an option
2: you can force a video to start at beginning via htm if you wanted to make a little htm launch page for the movies you'll need.

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another option.. you can use the app template to make up a flash app without any flash coding that should be able to force start a rss style feed of videos to select.

[Kaj]

Thank you for your input so far.

Omertron: sounds feasible, albeit a bit rash. I'm not a scripter, though, but let's see where I end up.

accident: a factory reset is not an option. Kind of nuking your 12-story apartment building from orbit, just because your bedroom on the first floor has a mosquito flying around that you can't get rid of.
Also, the trailer-idea isn't really feasible either, since I would be better off training my video-gophers to do the 0-Stop routine instead.
About the http-idea: that depends whether I retain the ability to play a whole bunch of files in sequence or not. You see, we also have an AMV-contest which plays a whole bunch of files in a sequence (opening video, AMV's and voting bumpers), and we tend to play separate episodes back to back without interruptions.
Computers have proven themselves to be too unstable over and over again (AMV-compo was a mess, last time we tried), so we're quite happy with the PCH.

Now to get rid of those bookmarks.