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Ever noticed how that on Netflix's web player if you do a 10 second rewind and then a 10 second forward skip you don't get back to the original position?
The buttons have a giant '10' inside of them, and they even flash that symbology on screen when you hit them. Well I did some testing and the time it rewinds / skips seems random, with the rewind being longer than the skip. I've seen the forward skip be anywhere between 3 and 10 seconds, and the rewind up to 19 seconds. Now, it turns out that it's not actually random, when you fast forward it always skips to pre-determined points in the episode, jumping to the nearest point that is at least two seconds away. The way the rewind works is that it jumps two steps backward (even if the previous one is only a second behind), so that means that one rewind always equals to forward skips (edit: that's actually not always true, sometimes it jumps to a different set of offset points).
What the hell Netflix, why make this fucked up implementation that makes the skipping totally inconsistent?
Maybe you're wondering what happens if you manually click on the progress bar to select a time, well let me tell you: the time indicated has nothing to do with reality, in practice it still snaps to these preset timestamps. Perhaps they do it so they can generate the thumbnails for that more efficiently or something, who knows. While I'm ranting, does anyone else hate how the fast forward brings up the timestamp preview if you spam it a bit? Makes skipping say a minute way more annoying.
The buttons have a giant '10' inside of them, and they even flash that symbology on screen when you hit them. Well I did some testing and the time it rewinds / skips seems random, with the rewind being longer than the skip. I've seen the forward skip be anywhere between 3 and 10 seconds, and the rewind up to 19 seconds. Now, it turns out that it's not actually random, when you fast forward it always skips to pre-determined points in the episode, jumping to the nearest point that is at least two seconds away. The way the rewind works is that it jumps two steps backward (even if the previous one is only a second behind), so that means that one rewind always equals to forward skips (edit: that's actually not always true, sometimes it jumps to a different set of offset points).
What the hell Netflix, why make this fucked up implementation that makes the skipping totally inconsistent?
Maybe you're wondering what happens if you manually click on the progress bar to select a time, well let me tell you: the time indicated has nothing to do with reality, in practice it still snaps to these preset timestamps. Perhaps they do it so they can generate the thumbnails for that more efficiently or something, who knows. While I'm ranting, does anyone else hate how the fast forward brings up the timestamp preview if you spam it a bit? Makes skipping say a minute way more annoying.
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