[vlc-devel] VLC OSX PLIST recentlyPlayedMedia question

[Alan J. Salmoni]

Thank you so much Felix for a quick answer.

If I may, I have one more question for VLC developers: In what order Is the
list of keys under "recentlyPlayedMedia" stored?

Best regards,




On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 at 15:07, Felix Paul Kühne <fkuehne at videolan.org> wrote:

> 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
>
>

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