Newpipe: [Suggestion] While seeking, show the video screen more clearly

[microtaka]

While fast forwarding or rewinding through a video, the screen is dimmed and prev/pause/next icons are shown in the middle of the screen.

Since we want to look at the video being played while doing this, I think it would be better to not dim the screen, and maybe move the prev/pause/next icons and/or make them smaller.

Or maybe make these configurable?

Thanks for making NewPipe!

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[grravity]

Bump

[gkeegan]

I think making the dimming effect less dark would be a simple enough solution to this.

[grravity]

I think making the dimming effect less dark would be a simple enough solution to this.

Personally I feel like the buttons are a bit unnecessarily large and the screen is a bit too dimmed.

_Ideally_, ontop of that, it would be really cool to have a seek preview (So when you drag on the seekbar, it shows a preview of what you will be viewing. Basically how YouTube does it). I really miss that one feature to be quite honest.

[eladkarako]

normally this requires (in other platforms I've worked on) preprocessing of the (entire, at some point) stream to snap some keyframe/index preview (which can be low res). if implemented badly, this will severely decrease performances, both overall video downloading and playback, normally the second seeking is heavily threaded. and it creates a TON of problems (developed on ffmpeg's ffplay, vlc and HTML5 native video tag).

If implemented, for the love of god, introduce it through a feature flag first, off by default, before making it available globally.

just saying...