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I would love to have an external controller for start/stop/fast forward/rewind when watching tutorials on Youtube. For example a controller [1] people are using to edit videos. Quite often I would like to pause the video for a while, repeat last 30 sec or by-pass some boring segment.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Contour-Design-Shuttle-Xpress-Multime...

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You might be aware but youtube at least have j,k,l as shortcut keys for reversing 10s, paus/play, and forwarding 10s.

Doesn't work within the PIP window though.

I hesitate to mention mpv a second time in the same thread, but using mpv should make this fairly easy. You can control mpv over a unix socket, which should allow you to implement nearly any custom control scheme you can think of.

https://mpv.io/manual/master/#json-ipc

It's doable as an extension that communicates with a native program. There are already such extensions for media buttons, you might want to look among them―some may allow you to reconfigure the keys. Search for ‘media keys’ in the extension store.

However, rewinding is probably not among standard functionality of these extensions.

That is an awesome idea. Would be extremely useful for guitar and transcription too, while writing the text in Word.

It typically would be a usecase for the Macbook touch bar, does anyone has one and can tell us whether it has an integration with web videoplayers?

Videos and audio in Safari use the touchbar as a scrubber with controls.

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