[vlc-devel] VLC OSX PLIST recentlyPlayedMedia question

[Felix Paul Kühne]

Hello Alan,

> Am 25.03.2022 um 14:26 schrieb Alan J. Salmoni <salmoni at gmail.com>:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Apologies if this is the wrong list to send this to but I had a query regarding VLC on the OSX platform.
> 
> The property ("plist") file in /users/user/Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc.plist has a key called "recentlyPlayedMedia". Each key within this dictionary consists of two items:
> 
> * key (filepath + filename)
> * integer 
> 
> What does the integer refer to exactly and what is it used for? 
> 
> From reading the source code, it refers to when a video is not completed but abandoned and is used for resuming, but I also heard that it recorded the total length of watching.

It is exactly that. It is the position until where the user watched the video that is used for continued playback next time unless than 3% or more than 97% of the total duration were consumed (or the content duration is less than 5 minutes).

Best regards,

Felix