Video Scrubbing Issues

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Video Scrubbing Issues

I'm just wondering if anyone is experiencing issues with scrubbing through videos in iOS5. It doesn't work most of the time and it seems to want to pull down the notification center when I scrub back and forth. Seems to happen in both portrait and landscape though it's a lot more finicky in landscape. Maybe I just have fat fingers, but it's pretty much made it impossible to scrub through videos for me. Also, the bar disappears after I'm scrubbing for a few seconds. It lets me continue scrubbing, but I don't know exactly where I am since the bar disappears.

Posted on Oct 13, 2011 8:49 AM

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Nov 26, 2011 7:49 PM in response to darkfate

I have the same problem. I'm not sure yet, but It seems to help if you use your fingernail or press quickly with your finger perpendicular to the screen (or nearly so). But I don't have the problem where the bar disappears after a few seconds. But I have iOS 5.0.1.

So you and I and a friend of mine are the only ones who find the scrubbing control for video a lot harder to activate? And then there's the battery-drain issue. And you can't downgrade! And performance took a hit (not a biggie though, as video plays fine -- just rotating and switching and stuff sometimes sticks).

Shopping for a smartphone now. I'll not be getting an iPhone.

Can anyone out there help us?

Bonus gripe: The search function for Apple discussion boards is bizarre. Why does it search everything when you've already focused on a particular board? You have to narrow down your search by re-running it and re-selecting the "community" you want. Illogical -- sort of.

AEF

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Mar 20, 2012 6:37 AM in response to betaneptune

I see that ios 5.1 recently came out. Is it safe for me to upgrade to this? Will it make my video scrubbing and performance problems worse? Can I back out if it does?

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Aug 11, 2012 4:02 PM in response to betaneptune

A bit late, but my a while back I upgraded to iOS 5.1. and it fixed the problem. Hurray! I've since upgraded again, to 5.1.1, and life is still good.

Amazing: Sometimes good things happen. ⚠

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darkfate Author

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Aug 12, 2012 7:08 AM in response to betaneptune

Yeah, I noticed that it works much better now. Either that or I've gotten better at scrubbing.

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