Better playback bar and player interaction and other improvements

[ghost]

Checklist

• I checked, but didn't find any duplicates (open OR closed) of this issue in the repo.
• I have read the contribution guidelines given at https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/blob/HEAD/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md.
• This issue contains only one feature request. I will open one issue for every feature I want to request.

Describe the feature you want

If let's say I start a music video then stop playing in the middle, then exit out of the app the player will remember where the player stopped and it will play from there if opened again. If I listen to music this is might not be desirable.

When tapping on a video, we cannot scroll the playback bar to scroll to the beginning, only until we start the stream. This is bit annoying since we have to click twice, wait the buffer to load, then scroll to the beginning, then wait again to play.

Solution:

Tap 1: When opening the player, a big play button appears but no scroll bar or other buttons. (1st image)

Tap 2 on the player: When clicking again other options and a playback bar appears thats navigatable. (2nd image)

I suggest the Tap 1 be skipped and lets go straight to the Tap 2 part. We could then set the resolution, the position, speed, without wasting time and data. No data needs to be downloaded, only when clicking on the play button.

[STREAM PREFETCHING RECOMMENDATION WAS HERE, MOVED TO NEW ISSUE #6759]

Or alternatively do #6380.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe it

Additional context

How will you/everyone benefit from this feature?

More productive, faster and more logical implementation.

[SameenAhnaf]

When tapping on a video, we cannot scroll the playback bar to scroll to the beginning, only until we start the stream. This is bit annoying since we have to click twice, wait the buffer to load, then scroll to the beginning, then wait again to play.

If I didn't misunderstand the issue, there had already been an option available in the settings.
Go to 'Settings'>'History and Cache' and you will find the option.

Resume playback: Disable it to always start the playback over.
Positions in list: It only indicates the last playback position. But disabling or enabling it won't affect the previous settings.

Also there could be an option in the settings that enables automatically prefetching the video (if there are currently none):

So if autoplay is enabled:

Video downloads, and autoplays

If autoplay disabled but "prebuffer" is enabled:

Video downloads, but no autoplay

If prefetching is disabled:

No download, only when tapping play, no autoplay

Please discuss about this in a separate issue. You have already checked the checkbox.

This issue contains only one feature request. I will open one issue for every feature I want to request.

[ghost]

@SameenAhnaf I will make a separate issue although it was sort of an alternative.

What I meant was that there are currently no option to start a video straight from the beginning while resume playback is enabled.

The one solution was to have a playback bar when opening a video so we don't have to start the stream to access the currently existing one. So I suggested we skip the big hollow play button start and go straight to the second UI. Then we could change the resolution and other settings as well as scroll to the beginning of the video without starting a stream. The starting of the video would be the same as starting it before.

I presented the alternative of implementing a menu option but expressed that implementing both would be better. I'll insert thenew issue number under the second option but I'll go and make it first.

I also suggested that let's have an option to prefetch the video while we did not started the stream. I'll make an issue for this as well.

[SameenAhnaf]

@IHateTheProgrammingClass So, you are asking for a menu which will ask for "Start over or resume?". Then, you may keep the discussion in #6380.

[ghost]

@SameenAhnaf I have already made a new issue. I'll close it.

[ghost]

Also that was only an alternative. The main focus is on the UI skip solution in this issue. That would be just a good addition.

[SameenAhnaf]

I'd personally say that your suggestions are not straight forward. I myself had to freeze for 2 minutes what you were asking for. #6380 is common in many other media players.

You may copy and paste your ideas in that issue.

Btw, won't #6563 suit your needs instead of prefetching videos? It's not that hard to understand if my connection is slow.

[ghost]

@SameenAhnaf I do my best to convert my thoughts into proper English. But I understand if something is confusing. In this case please point it out and I happily clarify.

#6380 is common in many other media players.

Sorry but I don't understand how other media players are related to NewPipe. Also I mentioned my duplicate issue in that one so it's all good.

Btw, won't #6563 suit your needs instead

If I understood correctly what this does is create a shortcut to download a video? I would like a setting that would enable the "prebuffering" / "prefetching" the stream of a video IF autoplay is disabled so when manually starting the video later, the video does not have to load. All this while being able to set it to only do this on WiFi for example. I don't know if we understood each other correctly but again please point out if you don't understand something or I misunderstood something.

[SameenAhnaf]

Sorry but I don't understand how other media players are related to NewPipe.

Other media players are NOT related to NewPipe. I was just talking about adding a usual behavior instead that most users are already familiar with.

I would like a setting that would enable the "prebuffering" / "prefetching" the stream of a video IF autoplay is disabled so when manually starting the video later, the video does not have to load.

I understand your use case now. Sorry for all the misunderstanding.

[SameenAhnaf]

@litetex Duplicate of #1928

[litetex]

Issue not understandable, Images are dead and duplicate of #1928