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Enhance (virtual) touchpad gestures

VLC 3.3.7 (432) on an Apple TV 4K

Currently the touchpad area of the Siri remote (or the virtual one on an iPhone in my case), only allows:

  • play/pause with a tap
  • seeking without a lot of precision when paused and scrolling left/right

There are a number of gestures that would be very useful:

  • seeking when playing/scrubbing (either through double/triple/etc.-taps like YouTube, or the distance swiped left/right)
  • precision scrubbing when paused (the speed at which the finger is dragged dictates the precision used for seeking, slow movement moves by small amounts, the builtin iOS seek bar for the video widget implements that)
  • dedicated seek area, with amounts of seeking being dependent on the length of the media (Image from https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/tv/atvb701cadc1/tvos: image)
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