[JGravitas]

I've tried many media center programs over the last several years and am just now trying XBMC. I'm generally loving it, but there's one feature I can't seem to find and I'm hoping there's a way to do it that I'm missing. I've been using Media Portal for the last year or so, and I really miss its graduated skipping feature.

In short: press FF once, it skips forward 15 secs, press twice skips forward 30 secs, then 1 min, 3 min, 10 min, 15 min, 30, 45, 1 hr, 2 hrs. RR works the same way. This system works really well for quickly finding exactly the point you want to play.

Is there a way to do this in XBMC? I looked at the advancedsettings.xml file and couldn't see a way to do it there....

Any help appreciated!

[abba77]

Adding to that if i may, I saw some keymapping info, and saw that up and down skips 10% and left and right skips 1% of the movie, at least the default keys do.

if what the original poster asked for cannot be done, can we change it to say 1 tap left or right is a 1 second skip and up and down is a 60 second skip?

[SlaveUnit]

What the orignal poster asked cannot be done. I know it is the default in Media Portal and is a nice feature.

You should be able to change the values in seconds in the up/down and left/right arrows. I have seen it somewhere in the past. Might want to search for it in the forums.

[althekiller]

What the orignal poster asked cannot be done. I know it is the default in Media Portal and is a nice feature.

You should be able to change the values in seconds in the up/down and left/right arrows. I have seen it somewhere in the past. Might want to search for it in the forums.

See the advancedsettings.xml page in the wiki. small/largeskipforward/back tags.

[miljbee]

yeah, i also used mediaportal a long time ago, and then switch to xbmc. I agree that the jump feature of mediaportal is really great, probably the most user friendly one can thought of. It would be great if it could be done in xbmc.

[abba77]

See the advancedsettings.xml page in the wiki. small/largeskipforward/back tags.

thanks. these will definitely do me ok for now.

[abba77]

um...wil trying to get the skipping to work, which i have not yet, i just found something.

JGravitas: XBMC does exactly this. The default keys while playing video is f and r. Pressing multiple times cycles through the varying speeds of seek. Space goes back to 1 X. Try it. Im using SVN 18923. Probably that way in older versions.

I guess there is still a whole lot to discover for me. I'm working my way through C:\Program Files\XBMC\system\Keymap.xml and trying to find all the shotcuts. + and - is for volume control.

I am sure we can bind these to other keys.

[SlaveUnit]

yeah FF an RW can go at different speeds. But that is very different from the 15/30/60/120/300 secs interval jumps.