Search by Duration.

x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 6:52 pm

Is this a good idea or bad idea? I want to search by duration, or is there already an option to do so.

pen-pen2002 · Post by **pen-pen2002** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 7:08 pm

hmmm, perhaps a good idea, but it would further clutter an already complicated search interface.

I don't really see myself using it for ordinary searches. It could be used to find really short or really long videos though.

In the end probably not worth the effort of coding, but if you have some arguments I'd like to hear them.

x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 7:23 pm

I really like lengthy videos, and less fond of short ones usually like trailers. I find the search by filesize useless since people don't know how to compress there audio and video. I run into a lot of videos that are huge in file size but short in video length with uncompressed audio. Search by duration would be very helpful for me in finding lengthy videos a lot better than searching by file size witch doesn't help much at all.

[Mike of the Desert] · Post by **[Mike of the Desert]** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 1:51 am

pen-pen2002 wrote:hmmm, perhaps a good idea, but it would further clutter an already complicated search interface.

I don't really see myself using it for ordinary searches. It could be used to find really short or really long videos though.

In the end probably not worth the effort of coding, but if you have some arguments I'd like to hear them.

Yes. I think that too.

A good implementation would be like "Videos from 00:00 to 2:00" and then "Videos from 2:00 to 5:00" And then "All"

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 11:17 am

There is the problem that not all videos are uploaded locally, and not all of those that do are in a format (read: MPEG or AVI) such that Kero can determine their length. (And Nago doesn't even try.)

For indirect and direct links, you'd have to trust that the editor was accurately reporting the length. And so on.

[Mike of the Desert] · Post by **[Mike of the Desert]** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 11:32 am

Scintilla wrote:There is the problem that not all videos are uploaded locally, and not all of those that do are in a format (read: MPEG or AVI) such that Kero can determine their length. (And Nago doesn't even try.)

For indirect and direct links, you'd have to trust that the editor was accurately reporting the length. And so on.

True.. True.. This is somethnig I didn't thought. Searching by duration every In-/Direct link would probably be ignored.

x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 8:29 am

Please can somebody consider this? I would give away so many features just for this one. It's important to me because I like lengthy amvs and searching by file size doesn't cut it.

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 8:41 am

I could see mabe a sort by length of the results with vids that have no length information being placed last in the list. Searching seems a bit too much, but using this as a criteria to sort with shouldn't be too hard.

x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:08 am

I guess no ones considering it. It would be nice to get a reply from one of the mods and get there opinion, wether it's some big deal to add this small feature, if it's easy to implement.. etc..