Actually, this could be something like 10 minutes. Then MC would continue playing movies and other long video files from the previous stop point if they were seriously watched before stopping, but it would not use this memory with short clips like music videos. So if e.g. a bunch of usual 3-6 minute music videos is loaded into Playing Now MC would play the videos from the beginning regardless if they were previously stopped before the end. Though a 12-minute video that was stopped at 11 min would still be a problem so perhaps a simple manual on/off switch would be nice to have.
Jim's proposed Option 1 would be perfect for me. I think 2-3 minutes is a good mark though. I actually use the video bookmarking feature in the first 10 minutes of TV shows quite often, and for video clips that I'm using for editing purposes (which are often quite short). Somewhere between 1-3 minutes would probably work perfectly.
Option #2 wouldn't help me at all, and could potentially annoy me.
Many times I use the video bookmarking feature when watching TV shows. For example, I have on my media volume every single episode of
Lost that's ever aired, but up until this past New Year's Day I hadn't ever watched a
single one of them. I knew eventually it'd be better to watch that show in a "marathon" session (I'm quite impatient with cliffhangers).
Anyhow, this past New Year's Day while we were nursing hangovers, we started watching the series (a little cheesy, but generally quite good). However, after stopping to get up and move about, walk the dog, make food, or whatever, we'd often forget which episode we had last watched.
So, after sitting back down, we'd usually just pick one from the list "roughly where we guessed we left off". We weren't often right, but the bookmarking feature made it easy to tell. If we'd already watched the episode, it had been would "resume" on the credits were we stopped it last and we'd just hit "next track" on the remote. If it started at the beginning, we'd skip back to the previous one to find the last one we watched. This method would quickly reveal that the episode had already been viewed and get us back on our way (or pick back up mid-episode if we left off that way).
Either way, if the bookmarking feature only worked on the first video file played, this wouldn't be good at all! I'd really prefer an option to just completely disable it (for those who would want it) over this!