Control playback of video files – seek and current position about pympress

[Cimbali]

So we are talking about a pdf with embedded media, that has the options for controls enabled (for example showcontrols=true with the multimedia package). In this case we do show a control bar, that is indeed pretty basic. It has only play, pause and stop buttons.

The control bar is built in VLCVideo.get_player_control_toolbar(), so extending this with a couple other buttons and callbacks to the media should be rather easy. (I just fixed the pause button which was not working in c8178f8.)

If you want to take a shot at a PR, the code and some examples of python-vlc and the API documentation are available online if you need them, just add some widgets to our control bar and connect them to the right callbacks.

[complanar]

You’re right. I was aware of the showcontrols option. But I do not find a toolbar at the presentation view very usable.
Most of the time this view will be behind me, so I can not really see what’s happening. At my system vlc hides the mouse pointer from time to time (normally a good idea because it distracts the viewer of a movie), so I can not really see, where the mouse is.

I was thinking of showing the playing video at the presenter view as well (maybe one can clone the overlay to save system resources) and showing the toolbar there, where it makes more sense in my opinion.
The audience does not need to see control buttons no matter which if a showcontrols option was set or not.

This is more then extending just the toolbar. I could easily add two or more buttons, but I do not know poppler and gtk good enough, that would be a steep learning curve for me. You seem to have more background knowledge :-)
I’m coming from PHP, JavaScript and LaTeX, I had rarely to deal with GUIs.

[Cimbali]

Yes, I did think already about duplicating the video output but I have no idea how to do it. That's the hard part, the rest we can tweak easily.

Let me see what I can do.

[complanar]

Thank you. I commented on the commit.