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[EnduringGuerila]

Sorry, I know this is lazy and bad practice to not split these all into separate requests..
I have used the Segment Editor a lot recently and have some major usability complaints.
I do really appreciate all your hard work that has gone into making free plugins, I don't want to discount that at all.

Issues:

1. Disable the "Start time must be less than end time" "feature" that deletes my input. (example, I am currently adding 'preview' segments that start after the outro, and if I paste the timestamp from when the outro end as the start time for the preview, my input is instantly deleted. I then have to
2. Sometimes when switching the subtitles or audio language, the video just gets stuck and never loads. I don't have this issue outside of segment editor
3. Using the Segment Editor affects watch history in Jellyfin. So if I edit something I just watched, it'll usually mark it as unwatched, or if I seek in the segment editor video and stop in the middle, then go home, jellyfin says I left off in the middle of that episode and should continue watching... Just selecting an episode to edit, and never interacting with the player still loads the video from the beginning, resetting watch status. Maybe also add an easy toggle to disable autoloading videos, since sometimes I'm just editing a bunch of episodes without even using the video player.
4. When using the search, it searches the seasons as well as show names. Clicking a season brings you to a weird player view that doesn't seem to do anything, and has no way to go up to the corresponding show.
5. Items per page choice doesn't seem to save between sessions (I am using the same pc without clearing cookies and it still lost it, but haven't tested it again after it lost it the first time)
6. Paste feature doesn't seem to do anything.

Requests:

1. Add a 'next episode' button
2. Add a 'previous episode' button
3. Make the 'Back' button go up a level. (when viewing an episode, it takes you to the episode list instead of whatever you previously viewed. Example, I use the dropdown to switch episodes multiple times. Every time I click the back button, it just goes in reverse order through all the episodes again, and there is no other way back to the library view.
4. Add a 'Home' button that takes you back to the root library view
5. Add an 'Undo' button (refreshing the page usually works to undo edits if I didn't save, but pretty annoying and it wipes all edits instead of the most recent change)
6. Add a 'start' and 'end' button to each segment that will modify the time to 0 if clicking start, and clicking end would change the end time to match however long the video is. This would be much more convenient than having to click and drag the little sliders.
7. When modifying the start time to something later than the end time, bump the end time to one frame later than the start time, or keep the duration and just shift end time an equal amount the start time was shifted.
8. Under the video, display the current time and total time in seconds as well as H:M:S, since seconds are used for all the segments below
9. When viewing the list of shows, add an alphabet jump section. ( so, in english, 26 buttons, to jump to the the corresponding shows that start with that letter)
10. In the library views, add display options like "list view" so I can load way more results and not have to scroll through massive pictures
11. When adding a new "Preview" segment, set the default start time to match the end time of the outro if the video player timestamp isn't relevant or the video player isn't loaded...
12. Add a way to shrink the video player? It's usually just to quickly see when a scene changes, and it'd be nice to not have to scroll so much.
13. Add snapping to the click/drag sliders. (This would be significantly more convenient for things like adding preview segments that run from the end of the outro to the end of the video)

Thanks again for all your work on this free plugin!

[AbandonedCart]

1. That's not a bug. That's a guard because those segments will kick back errors if saved. Set the end times first to avoid it.
2. That's likely related to the streams. There is a bug in Jellyfin where the stream specification isn't always being respected
3. Removed sending the times in the calls, which could trigger jellyfin to register playback times. This may mess with switching streams resetting the video to the beginning, though.
4. Addressed
5. This did save, but there appears to be an issue with the plugin environment saving.
6. Was something copied to paste?

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1. Click the episode name
2. Click the episode name
3. The navigation is generally a pain. Since each page is not a physical page, the navigation is virtual and "the last thing I was doing" isn't a finite concept. 90% of your navigation will become unreliable. You'll regret that almost instantly.
4. Added to the series and player views, but not the movie and show list because back would be home.
5. Don't click save and it isn't saved. I'm not sure I understand what you need to undo.
6. Added a rewind button next to start times and fast forward next to end that go to 0 and duration, respectively.
7. Adding a new segment sets the start time as the current time in the video. Editing the end time first avoids the issue and prevents another big risk for accidents by removing the guard.
8. That’s reasonable, but the target buttons can accomplish the task without needing it at the moment.
9. The biggest concern is that English is only a default, so it's not as simple as adding 26 hot keys. It's just not realistically maintainable.
10. Added a settings option that toggles between the current cards and a list that mirrors the current episode list layout.
11. An option exists in Intro Skipper to automatically set anything after the credits as a preview. However, it seems easier to press the play button next to the credits end time and then add the preview. It would work the same way.
12. Added a button next to fullscreen to hide the player.
13. Dragging the slider past the end or before the beginning and setting times less than the beginning or greater than the end now set 0 or the duration, respectively.

[EnduringGuerila]

Thank you for taking the time to reply and even implement some of the things already!

Have you heard the 'different strokes for different folks' saying?
I think it's very important to design software and hardware to be usable in many different ways when there is no major downside to doing so.

Example, I primarily do my segment editing on a massive TV in the living room with a wireless keyboard with built in trackpad, because I will watch something and if the segment skips are bad, I just edit them so the other users don't have to suffer as I have... (or I'll watch episode 1, find out something is off like missing preview segments and edit them all before watching the rest of the show). I'm sure there are people that use laptops with track pads, but it feels like this plugin was exclusively set up with a mouse in mind.

Issue 1: This sanity check is so annoying, I know it's not a 'bug'. Can it be reimplemented to check on save instead and then show an error?

Issue 3: Watch status: I fully agree it shouldn't but it does... Just opening episodes in Segment Editor to help me write these requests (and not even clicking play or interacting with the video or segments at all) resets my watch status to unwatched (or watched if I leave with it near the end of the video).

Issue 6: copy/paste: I didn't see this error before but upon retesting, I'm getting 'Clipboard access denied'
I don't think this is an issue with my OS/Browser as copy buttons on other sites like the one at the top of this github page that says "copy link" works just fine.

Feature 1 and 2,
I am fully aware of clicking the episode name for the dropdown list. This is far less efficient than simple next/previous buttons, which is why next/previous buttons are so common. actually, if you can make the dropdown list vertically span the whole page so it displays way more episodes at a time, that would be a huge help too...

Feature 5, I know it isn't saved if I don't click save. An Undo button would help when editing multiple segments in one video.
example: say you edit the intro start and end times, then add a recap segment, then try to preview the outro times but whoops, you clicked the target button instead of the play/seek button on the outro segment and now it's set to the recap end time.
Now you either have to redo everything, or manually reset the outro.
An undo last action button would just be highly convenient. Again, undo buttons are quite common for a reason (or allow ctrl+z without a visible button)

Feature 6: Yes, I use the target buttons plenty and know how they work. I am pitching ideas for features that can speed up the creation and editing of segments, as well as making it less annoying to do so.
Adding an 'end' button would be much more convenient/faster than seeking in the player to the end, then clicking the target button, or click/dragging the slider to the end of the video. A '0' or 'start' button is far less helpful as typing '0' isn't too bad. Instead of adding a button in some random location, you could reuse the existing 'start' and 'end' words already displayed in the segments section. Just make them clickable

Feature 7:
The workflow is so heavily optimized around using the video player when the video player is completely unnecessary for certain edits/creations. Some shows have timestamps that don't change from episode to episode, sometimes you just want to add a preview that spans from the end of outro to the end of video, or similarly for recaps before intros, sometimes intros just need another 5 seconds added to all of them.
My point is that not everyone relies on using the video player for everything, and it feels like the design philosophy of "use it the one way it was intended to be used and no other way is worth considering"
Back to the start/end time editing issue, even using your target button and video player times, say the intro was just wrong and you seek to the correct start time that is after the previously detected end time. The target button will ignore your current time and set to the frame before the end time.

These 'sanity checks' are VERY RARELY helpful to people, while being a pita far more often for far more users.
Also, with an undo button, these sanity checks are even less of an issue.

Feature 9 (alphabet jump): this is a feature in jellyfin that at least I use regularly, and I doubt I'm alone.

Feature 11 (setting preview start time): I have done that, and that is also slower than copying the outro time and pasting it into the preview start time.
That feature in Intro Skipper is 'risky' as not all episodes of the same season will even follow this rule. Some of the shows I've watched have occasional short skits after the outro but before the preview. New idea, add a button that tells Segment Editor to mark everything before the intro as a recap and another for marking everything after the outro a preview for just the current episode...

Feature 12 (shrink video player): I also assume most people will use the video player, I am saying there is no need for it to always (or ever) be so large! In 1080p with standard 100% zoom, you can't even see all of the first segment. I'm saying there could be a toggle to shrink the video to be like 1/4 of what it is now, which would be plenty to see the scene. There is a fullscreen button already that fills the roll of "I want to see everything in great detail."
While I would like it, I was not suggesting you make the video player like 1/2 the size for everyone and that be the only option. I like having options.
An imperfect comparison would be the 'theater view' on YouTube. This makes the video bigger and pushes the recommendations down. You could potentially implement the opposite of this.

Feature 13 (snapping): What do you mean fine tuned? Dragging a slider like this is never precise and most people only drag things because you can quickly move the thing to the approximate location. As you were saying before, most people just seek in the video player and click the target buttons, so dragging is rarely helpful as it is (unless you're just dragging to the beginning or end of the file)
For the snapping feature to be helpful, you'd have to display colored bars in the segment view for the other existing segments, and allow snapping to those. It doesn't have to be aggressive snapping, just if you're close when you drop it.
Here is an example of what I mean visually:

Feature 14 request:
If you enter a time in the 'end' section that exceeds the duration of the video, set the time to the end of the video instead of just deleting the input...
Then you could just type '1500' or '9999' instead of '1451.742'
again, it's about adding things that can speed up creation/editing without relying on only one way of doing things.

Another thing to consider, I have written ahk and other scripts to automate certain little repeating tasks. It's much easier to automate 'type 9999' or type '(x)' "tab, tab tab" "space" "enter", etc, than to automate using a video player.
Or for the less tech savvy, simple input recorders.
They can easily record inputs (with or without the delays of humans) and tell it to repeat X times.

Automating 'click/actuate next episode button' is also easier than 'click the title, scroll X amount, click what is hopefully the next episode'

[AbandonedCart]

Have you heard the 'different strokes for different folks' saying?

This is why we accept pull requests. However, what we got was an itemized list of 19 things you wanted. That said, a paragraph response to each of them is just too much.

[EnduringGuerila]

I was a bit concerned since there were only 7 issues created before this, and I wasn't sure how receptive you'd be to input.
I am not a good enough programmer to make a meaningful contribution without relying on AI.

I'll make separate issues/feature requests for each, and I'll likely have more free time after a couple of weeks from now.

[AbandonedCart]

I don't really understand what you meant, since posting it all together or individually is still the same amount of stuff. My point was that it's a bit overwhelming.

It's not bad to use AI to write your code. The problem is when it's left unmonitored and untested to manage everything.