[Android] VideoPlayerActivity: hack to fix lost overlay controls

[Felix Abecassis]

2014-07-07 15:40 GMT+02:00 Edward Wang <edward.c.wang at compdigitec.com>:

> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 6:07 AM, Felix Abecassis
> <felix.abecassis at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Do you want to add a new selection list (like subtitles/audio) with the
> > following layout?
> > * Title 0:
> >   - Chapter 0
> >   - Chapter 1
> > * Title 1:
> >   - Chapter 0
> >   - Chapter 1
> >   - Chapter 2
> > Some samples have dozens of chapters on some titles, the list would be
> too
> > long imo. We should only list the titles and maybe have a separate list
> for
> > chapters (but I'm not convinced we need this list in the first place).
> > Having a list of titles might be confusing though, many titles seems to
> be
> > unnamed.
>
> If the length of the list is an issue, we can make each title
> collapsible, so you would click on "Title 0" and it would expand and
> show the chapters under it.
>

Good idea, a collapsible list would be nice.


>
> Having this list is nice, because then you would be able to jump to
> any point in DVD/Blu-ray and media with chapters (MKV notably).
>

I'm not sure that's a common use case, but why not.


>
> If the titles are unnamed in some media, wouldn't they show up unnamed
> in all media players? Then VLC for Android isn't missing or breaking
> anything.
>

Of course, but my point was: should we keep a simple menu button or should
we have selection list that might end up totally confusing, for instance:
- Unnamed title 0
- Unnamed title 1
- Unnamed title 2
...


>
> Regards,
> Edward Wang
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