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<blockquote data-quote="archive10" data-source="post: 1009277"><p>Good question. It seems not-so-intuitive.</p><p></p><p>But we were actually considering a similar feature last year.</p><p>It was primarily intended to speed up binge-catch-up viewing.</p><p></p><p>We found several use cases:</p><p></p><p>1) If you're (I mean in general, not you Chris) watching 14 episodes of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills to free up space on your PVR, then wathcing it 10-15% sped up means you can get through it faster.</p><p>2) If you're watching the a multi-threaded reality show (eg Big Bruwer), then you can speed play through the stuff which is not so interesting, but still keep up with the announcements etc.</p><p>3) If you're watching very long things like Academy Awards, you can get to the good parts faster without missing the rest.</p><p></p><p>For most non-series-users (such as myself), it does not make any difference.</p><p></p><p>Implementation-wise it's not difficult, the normal player and chipset drivers support fractional playback up to 2x speed.</p><p>Trick-play FFWD is in fact most often implemented by just speeding up the data-stream being fed into the decoder.</p><p>Above that, the software start skipping I-frames in the video stream.</p><p></p><p>TIVO have the feature on their brand products in the States already, so it's perhaps not so surprising it's appeared at VM now.</p><p></p><p>Our product people decided not to prioritse this, they'd rather spend the effort on things like NetFlix... <img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="archive10, post: 1009277"] Good question. It seems not-so-intuitive. But we were actually considering a similar feature last year. It was primarily intended to speed up binge-catch-up viewing. We found several use cases: 1) If you're (I mean in general, not you Chris) watching 14 episodes of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills to free up space on your PVR, then wathcing it 10-15% sped up means you can get through it faster. 2) If you're watching the a multi-threaded reality show (eg Big Bruwer), then you can speed play through the stuff which is not so interesting, but still keep up with the announcements etc. 3) If you're watching very long things like Academy Awards, you can get to the good parts faster without missing the rest. For most non-series-users (such as myself), it does not make any difference. Implementation-wise it's not difficult, the normal player and chipset drivers support fractional playback up to 2x speed. Trick-play FFWD is in fact most often implemented by just speeding up the data-stream being fed into the decoder. Above that, the software start skipping I-frames in the video stream. TIVO have the feature on their brand products in the States already, so it's perhaps not so surprising it's appeared at VM now. Our product people decided not to prioritse this, they'd rather spend the effort on things like NetFlix... :) [/QUOTE]
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