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I don’t think my problem is a unique one.
Sometimes, it takes about three sittings to finish off a movie!
I also need to remember the position of the movie and continue from there without missing a frame.
I think I have friends out there who are often faced with the same problem.
But heck, aren’t we movie junkies a lazy bunch.
We want one touch solutions to bookmark video.
To solve this problem, I started my search for a way to bookmark video.
Bookmarking is a feature in many DVD players.
In PCs, bookmark features are there for many applications.
From Office suites toPDFfiles and even theiPodhas a feature that remembers to resume a song from where you stopped.
Why not a video bookmark for video files?
Well, it’s there by default in some media players and as a plugin in Windows Media Player.
When you launch the video file again, it resumes playing from that spot.
MyMediaBookmarks can be accessed fromWMP - Tools - Plugins.
From here, it can also be unchecked and disabled.
The Plugins tab under Windows Media Player’sOptionstakes us into the features of MyMediaBookmarks.
TheGeneraltab gives you the choices of auto-resuming video and audio files.
If you think that you won’t need it for audio files, choose to disable it.
Also, use the same tab to set the auto-resume time difference between the startup and the spot bookmarked.
The default of 5 seconds is good enough.
TheFile Typestab lets you include or remove the different video/audio file formats that Windows Media Player handles.
Note the support for newer formats like M4B and MKV.
The slight hitch when the plugin starts with WMP is the one thing one has to accept.
Or maybe it was so in my individual case, as I have quite a few plugins installed.
There is only one way to bookmark your files"by closing WMP.
There is no other way you might manually bookmark video without closing the tool.
MyMediaBookmarks (ver.1.5) plug-in for Windows Media Player is a 2.19MB download.
KMPlayer and VLC Player often get talked about in the same breath as very powerful andfree media players.
For the purpose of bookmarking videos, I found KMPlayer easier to configure as compared to VLC Player.
For an explanation on how to save bookmarks in VLC, go toVideoLAN Wiki.
There are two ways to resume watching a video from where you left off in KMPlayer.
From the right click menu, go toPlaybackand checkRemember Played Position.
The next time you play the movie, it resumes from where you left off.
From the right click menu, go toBookmarks/Chapters - Add to Bookmarks.
The precise time frame gets added to the context menu.
KMPlayer offers the distinct advantage of also letting us bookmark multiple points in the same film.
Using this, you’re able to pinpoint all key scenes in a single movie.
KMPlayer [No Longer Available] (ver.2.9.4) is a 14.2MB free download for Win2000/XP/2003/Vista/7.
For the absolute smoothness and ease of the operation, I usually would go for KMPlayer.
Do you use video bookmarking?
Which media player do you have installed and does it handle video bookmarking?
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