Add a start and end time display option for the now showing display

[archiconda1976]

Add a start and end time display option to the top or bottom line, as shown here:

Could possibly add as an alternative display mode to the progress bar display?

Start time can be found using the timeStamp:

$mediaStartTime = "Start Time </br>" . date("g:i A", (int)$clients->TranscodeSession['timeStamp']); 

End time can be calculated using the progress % in the TranscodeSession section, along with current time:

$media_duration = "End Time</br>" . date("g:i A", (int)time() + (int)($clients->TranscodeSession['duration'] * (1-$clients->TranscodeSession['progress']/100)/1000));

[ZeroCoolGOS]

@archiconda1976

This looks like a pretty cool idea, and I would like to look into this. The only thing that I can think of is that if you have a movie or show that you are resuming, do you care to see that the "start time" is not when you actually started the media or just have a calculation of what the start time would be relative to the current position of the video?

So for example if you start a 30 min video at 9pm and the end time is scheduled for 9:30pm. If you pause for 10 min, your "start time" would be 9:10 and your "end time" would be 9:40.

Is that fine with you?

Plex did have that "Estimated" end time in some of there clients, but has since phased that out, but I did find it pretty handy.

[archiconda1976]

I was always more interested in the end time, it seemed like the code above produced the expected text. I just hacked it in as "always used" and wasn't sure how best to integrate it in as a display option. I can create a fork and push my proto code if it would help, it isn't much more than the code snippets shown above.

For the start time, I don't have a strong preference. I picked the timestamp as it was convinent, and typically I will maybe pause a movie like described, but still finish in one sitting. So seeing when the viewing started made sense.

The one thing I didn't try was stopping a movie and restarting it say the next day, not sure what the timestamp ends up being set to. I would assume the time of the new session? I will test that when I get a chance.

[ZeroCoolGOS]

Cool.

I will do some research and hopefully have something implemented next week sometime.
I would have gotten to this sooner but my time to this project has been dramatically reduced over the past month but I hope to get back to some support shortly.

[ZeroCoolGOS]

@archiconda1976

We have added this feature in the latest version (2.12.x).

Please let us know if it's working as per your request.

With how we are doing this, I have been thinking of different ways to display the information in the future.