UI & Options For Tracking "Done" On Videos

frki1644

Have a feature request. Current Problems:

Unable to categorize videos as "complete"
Unable to see in list/card view which videos are marked as "seen already" with an obvious color/icon/filter
If using playlists to manually track for this purpose, the limit of items per playlist is MUCH too low
No option to "filter out" things marked as complete from list views of videos to easily find unseen content

I'd like to request a feature, particular in DeoVR player to make organizing videos that is easily visible in the card/list view. The thing i'd personally like to track is if i'm "done" with a video. Could be called / shown as many things "Archive" / "Finished" / "Complete" / "Done" / "Seen" / etc... That being said, it could be made generic and there are tons of approaches that would support this.

The problem I find is I can't easily tell what videos have seen previously (and this categorization would be something I'd like to apply myself, not purely based on if the end of the video is reached or some other heuristic -- a played to progress bar below the thumbnail on the list view to show progress in video would be very helpful toward this, but not sufficient). So when selecting a performer and getting 6 pages of videos, the only way right now to find "unseen" stuff is to visit each video (in DeoVR), wait for the video to load, open the menu, open the playlist list, and scroll up and down the whole list to see if one is checked. This is very slow process for each individual video.

As of now, I'm using playlists to track this, but the playlists fill up and you must create new playlists every couple months instead of just having one (then the list of playlists becomes long and scrolling the list in DeoVR popup takes even longer). Minimally, the playlist cap should be increased like 10x - 20x (really it should just be unlimited or the max video library size of all videos on the platform).

A couple more ideal solutions that would help:

Ideal: A top-level easy to see/use toggle option on a video (in video player UI and read-only visible in list UI) like "favorite" today. It could be a "check box" on the video that you check when you're done. People could use it for whatever purpose they want, but it could make it easy to toggle it on a video in the VR player and the list views could have an option to filter out those archived items as one of the filters.
A way to assign a "color" value to a playlist. If a playlist has a color value assigned, and the video being shown is in that playlist, show a dot(s?) with that color on the video card.
A one-click way to mark a video with one of a selection of icons (which would be visible on the card view). GMail has a similar feature with apply a vareity of colored stars/icons to emails. They don't inherently mean anything, but a user can apply them in a way that they understand.

E.g. gmail icons https://www.pcworld.com/article/426904/use-gmails-hidden-colored-stars-to-better-organize-important-emails.html

justsomedude101

frki1644 Really well thought out and explained, thanks for sharing! Passed this along.

frki1644

A follow-up on another potential approach: It occurred to me this could also be accomplished with a multi-value (3+) rating system. This would also potentially provide better data for how a scene is liked (no way to rate a non-favorite video today). Right now there is only the positive favorite option, but no way to rate a video as "meh" or "bad" or other more granular options after it has been completed.

Positive / Neutral / Negative
1 - 5 Star
Etc...

The filter could be "Rated > X" or "Hide All Rated" videos. Rating could be shown on video cards.

frki1644

A good list view for the home page using this would be: My Unseen Favorites: "Videos that have not been marked seen for models or studios I have favorited"

Andrew_SLR

thanks for the suggestions.

we were already planning to develop the feature to see where in the video users were left. however we will think about the way to implement the solution so that all use cases are covered - maybe some sort of starring system in combination with playlists setting.

I will also check if we can raise the limits to number of items in playlists.

br,
Andrew

Vatsyayana

Andrew_SLR How about something like they do on yt? Like a bar under the video that shows how much of the video was watched/where playback ended last time you viewed the video

Andrew_SLR

yes, this was the original idea. 😄

jambavant

@frki1644 Not sure if it 100% fits your idea, but I think I had a request close to yours.
I have developed a custom script to classify videos (in playlists), display a small icon next to the thumbnail for visibility and possible to hide videos that are already reviewed. https://forum.sexlikereal.com/d/6856-mark-videos-as-not-interested/5
Happy to share my script if you're interested.

fenderwq

I build my own library app over the years. First I added an indicator where you left off and the video would automatically resume from that point. It's okay but it still isn't super useful as you will often skip parts or seek through the movie and forget about that later.

Second I added a red color on the seekbar for all the parts I've watched that updates in real-time. I also added this watched bar as an overlay to the thumbnails of the videos in the grid at the bottom.

Now this is one of the best features I've ever added. It makes it soo much easier to get back to content and see what you watched. That's what SLR should aim for. All though it's harder to implement this at scale than for a one user app offcourse.

frki1644

The more I think about it, the real easy path to what I'm looking for is my follow-up suggestion above:

Add rating levels per video with at least 3+ options (bad, neutral, good), or 5 or 10 star rating
Add option to filter by this value (all > 3/5, etc)
Add option to filter OUT this value (show only unrated)

This would eliminate the needlessly low playlist limit problem and give SLR much more explicit feedback about video rating. The act of rating also acts as the "done" indication I was seeking.

This could then easily be shown on the card and allowed to be filtered by/out (> X, not yet rated).