Configurable Seek Back (and forward) Interval
Description
On VLC desktop, a configurable "Very Short Jump" interface setting exists which allows each user to to personally set the amount that you want to jump. That doesn't exist on android app.
I use VLC mainly to learn french! The ability to set that backwards jump very short like to 2 seconds is super important to learning a language. It allows me to repeat the thing i just heard which makes the process super efficient and useful (for the way i learn languages).
Without a configurable short jump the process becomes super inefficient and draining because
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if the jump is too large, you have to listen to 8 or 9 seconds of irrelevant material that has nothing to do with what you just heard or missed. Over the course of a study session you spend most of your time listening to repeated material that is not relevant to what you need to learn. Precision is key here otherwise those wasted seconds on every backward seek turn into lost multiples of minutes and hours every day!
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if you try to scrub / seek manually back it's so imprecise and requires so much motor skill that you become tired managing something invariable that should be a fixed and configurable function.
If for some reason i want to go back further then a short jump of 2 seconds, then i can just repeat the gesture or jump press x number of times to get me there or manually seek if large enough.
Trust me that for my use case of learning languages, I always need a fixed but configurable SHORT backwards jump and have never benefited from larger jumps (including the default 10s) b/c i can just swipe / seek or use some other gesture to get there if and when i need to. Generally speaking though, once i'm in my location of choice, i watch / listen sequentially and only need to jump backwards in short 2 sec increments. That's it
Expected behavior
I would love to have a configurable setting for jump / seek back (whatever nomenclature you use) interval. This would allow me to use VLC the way i want and allow you to NOT have to change the user interface or behavior (ie it should make it a lot easier on the development side)
I understand that the user interface is cramped. But as suggested above we are NOT changing the actual user interface or behavior which removes these constraints from the solution! Basically you're just letting users configure the seek intervals for the behaviors and icons already in the interface which i believe are set at 10. Just ship and install VLC with jump back interval defaults at 10 if you like but let us change them in the settings if we want.
That would allow guys like me to jump at 2s and everybody else by default 10s. Perhaps other would like to jump at 20s etc. It makes too much sense. Plus the jump interval is either hardcoded or is probably set as a var constant already so it shouldn't impact the regression stability of VLC to just make that variable a configurable setting.
Thanks