[Bug 795261] Make gst-play seeking behavior symmetric

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795261

--- Comment #3 from Antonio Ospite <ao2 at ao2.it> ---
Ah, I didn't know asymmetric seeking was a thing.
I verified that totem does it indeed, and it looks like
https://crates.io/crates/glide too opted for this strategy.

I have to check what VLC and my TV set do.

I come from mplayer and ffplay and both use symmetric seeking and use different
sets of keys for different granularities: Left/Right and PgUp/PgDown.

I find this a lot more logical, also considering that there are keys available
to support different seeking steps in a symmetric way.

Anyways you know what my preference is, I guess it's up to you to apply or
discard the patches as both strategy can make sense.

If I was to push for an argument I'd say that gst-play-1.0 is more in the
league of mplayer and ffplay, so maybe the more technical target users may
expect/prefer the symmetric behavior.

Thanks,
   Antonio

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