Mplayer-CE made good use of the control pad’s up, down, left & right directions – you could jump back or forward 5-minutes at a time using one axis, and skip 30-seconds in either direction using the other axis.

I was surprised to not see this carried over to WiiMC, but do realize that we can now jump around in a video using the onscreen playback control bar.

It’s a shame as WiiMC allows us to adjust the skip time to our own liking, and while a 30-second (or 5-minute, or other ‘large’ value) jump is frequently useful, I’d hoped to also add a 5 or 10-second skip so if I missed something or misheard something I could quickly see it/hear it again. (Same request was made by another user in post here – they were told that the skip-length option currently only allows for 30-second increments anyhow; this would not be changed).

Reading these forums and the documentation on Wiibrew, I see that UP is now assigned to “switch subs” (ie: rotate through available subs in case multi-language sub files are present). I see that DOWN is assigned to “Switch Audio Stream”. Unfortunately, I have to say that I can’t foresee that I’ll ever have any need to use either feature, and think that there’ll be plenty of others saying the same thing.

So, to keep everyone happy, what’d be super would be if we could assign functions to the D-pad controls.

If it’d be easier, even a pre-configured “Layout-1″(skip & switch),”Layout-2″(skip & jump) option would be quite acceptable.