[DESKTOP] Playback control bar lost some features in 1.0.9

[abishai]

Compared with 1.0.7 event viewing

1. No marks for frames with movement. As bar has become more thick, maybe colorize portion of it for such frames?
2. Lost ability to navigate the playback with clicks on bar.

Maybe show controls by default for desktop clients (or make setting) ? For example, click on video to stop it was removed and we need to collapse right menu to pause the video.

[pliablepixels]

Yup I can't offer those features because zms is taking over the playback unlike in the other mode where I show the frames myself - it also controls the playback rate and adjust itself. ZMS controls are very crude - it has a seek command but it hardly seems to work - forward/rewind work consistently

[abishai]

forward/rewind works, that's true. It's strange seek is not working. I remember click on web interface do the seek. Maybe it's not exposed on api ?

[abishai]

BTW, playback via zmc works very reliable. Server load remains loow and playback runs smooth, thank you for this solution.

[pliablepixels]

So seek does work - the problem is zmNinja makes it very easy to keep moving the slider around and then zms crashes - that's the problem. When people use the console, the interface is very crude - so they don't mess around much :)

[abishai]

So, seek is just disabled? If zms crashes with call stack and so on, we can open issue in ZM repo and wait for a fix. Also, if it crashes time to time, not always, systemd should restart it.

[pliablepixels]

Zms is not controlled by systemd. When it crashes we also lose the stream association - so we need to refresh the window with a new connkey- and we also lose position and speed. It requires a new init. No one will really fix zms. I'll have to fix it and it's not a bug fix more of a design relook. I've disabled it because seek may result in more UI instability and I don't want users to keep complaining the stream freezes or resets.

[pliablepixels]

next release will have movement control. please re-open if you need to after the next release is made (will be after ZM 1.30 is released)