Enhanced playback bar

1. A media system, comprising:

a display device comprising a graphical user interface (GUI) having a sticky playback bar, wherein the sticky playback bar includes a current playback time (CTI) and a plurality of scene change markers, wherein a stickiness of the playback bar is based on at least a speed of the CTI in the sticky playback bar, and a distance of the CTI to a closest scene change marker in the sticky playback bar, at a time a pause or stop command is received by a media device; and

the media device configured to:

receive an end command subsequent to a skip command that skips through a portion of content for display on the display device, wherein the end command stops an execution of the skip command;

determine a speed of the CTI corresponding to the skip command;

determine a threshold distance to a closest scene change marker of the plurality of scene change markers, wherein the threshold distance increases as the speed of the CTI corresponding to the skip command increases; and

determine whether a position within the portion of content corresponding to the end command is within the threshold distance,

wherein upon a determination that the position is within the threshold distance, playing the content from the closest scene change marker of the plurality of scene change markers, and

wherein upon a determination that the position is beyond the threshold distance, playing the content from the position.

2. The media system of claim 1 , wherein the media device is further configured to:

receive a first command to play, fast forward, rewind, seek, or scrub through content being played on the display device, wherein the first command corresponds to the skip command;

execute the first command;

receive a second command to pause or stop, wherein the second command corresponds to the end command;

execute the second command;

identify a scene change marker in the playback bar closest to the CTI after execution of the second command;

determine that a distance from the CTI to the closest scene change marker of the plurality of scene change markers is within a time threshold; and

snap the CTI to the closest scene change marker of the plurality of scene change markers, wherein the snap includes skipping one or more scenes between the execution of the second command and the closest scene change marker of the plurality of scene change markers.

3. The media system of claim 2 , wherein the time threshold is associated with a speed of the CTI during the execution of the first command and just before the execution of the second command.

4. The media system of claim 2 , wherein the time threshold is adjusted in a crowdsourced manner.

5. The media system of claim 1 , wherein the media device is further configured to identify a scene change marker that is prior to the CTI in the sticky playback bar.

6. The media system of claim 1 , wherein the closest scene change marker is determined in a crowdsourced manner.

7. A method in a media device, comprising:

causing a display device to display a graphical user interface (GUI) having a playback bar, wherein the playback bar includes a current playback time (CTI) and a plurality of scene change markers;

causing the playback bar to be sticky, wherein stickiness of the playback bar is based on at least a speed of the CTI in the playback bar, and a distance of the CTI to a closest scene change marker in the playback bar, at a time a pause or stop command is received by the media device;

receiving an end command subsequent to a skip command that skips through a portion of content for display on the display device, wherein the end command stops an execution of the skip command;

determining the speed of the CTI corresponding to the skip command;

determining a threshold distance to the closest scene change marker of the plurality of scene change markers, wherein the threshold distance increases as the speed of the CTI corresponding to the skip command increases; and

determining whether a position within the content corresponding to the end command is within the threshold distance,

wherein upon a determination that the position is within the threshold distance, playing the content from the closest scene change marker of the plurality of scene change markers, and

wherein upon a determination that the position is beyond the threshold distance, playing the content from the position.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the causing the playback bar to be sticky comprises:

receiving a first command to play, fast forward, rewind, seek, or scrub through content being played on the display device, wherein the first command corresponds to the skip command;

executing the first command;

receiving a second command to pause or stop, wherein the second command corresponds to the end command;

executing the second command;

identifying a scene change marker in the playback bar closest to the CTI after execution of the second command;

determining that a distance from the CTI to the closest scene change marker of the plurality of scene change markers is within a time threshold; and

snapping the CTI to the closest scene change marker of the plurality of scene change markers, wherein the snapping comprises skipping one or more scenes between the execution of the second command and the closest scene change marker of the plurality of scene change markers.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the time threshold is associated with the speed of the CTI during execution of the first command and just before execution of the second command.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the time threshold is adjusted in a crowdsourced manner.

11. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:

identifying a scene change marker that is prior to the CTI in the playback bar.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable module having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one computing device, cause the at least one computing device to perform operations comprising:

causing a display device to display a graphical user interface (GUI) having a playback bar, wherein the playback bar includes a current playback time (CTI) and a plurality of scene change markers; and

causing the playback bar to be sticky, wherein stickiness of the playback bar is based on at least (1) a speed of the CTI in the playback bar, and (2) a distance of the CTI to a closest scene change marker in the playback bar, at a time a pause or stop command is received by a media device;

receiving an end command subsequent to a skip command that skips through a portion of content for display on the display device, wherein the end command stops an execution of the skip command;

determining the speed of the CTI corresponding to the skip command;

determining a threshold distance to the closest scene change marker of the plurality of scene change markers, wherein the threshold distance increases as the speed of the CTI corresponding to the skip command increases; and

determining whether a position within the portion of content corresponding to the end command is within the threshold distance,

wherein upon a determination that the position is within the threshold distance, playing the content from the closest scene change marker of the plurality of scene change markers, and

wherein upon a determination that the position is beyond the threshold distance, playing the content from the position.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable module of claim 12 , wherein the causing the playback bar to be sticky comprises:

receiving a first command to play, fast forward, rewind, seek, or scrub through content being played on the display device, wherein the first command corresponds to the skip command;

executing the first command;

receiving a second command to pause or stop, wherein the second command corresponds to the end command;

executing the second command;

identifying a scene change marker in the playback bar closest to the CTI after execution of the second command;

determining that a distance from the CTI to the closest scene change marker of the plurality of scene change markers is within a time threshold; and

snapping the CTI to the closest scene change marker of the plurality of scene change markers, wherein the snapping comprises skipping one or more scenes between the execution of the second command and the closest scene change marker of the plurality of scene change markers.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable module of claim 13 , wherein the time threshold is associated with the speed of the CTI during execution of the first command and just before execution of the second command.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable module of claim 13 , wherein the time threshold is adjusted in a crowdsourced manner.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable module of claim 12 , the operations further comprising:

identifying a scene change marker that is prior to the CTI in the playback bar.

17. A method for adjusting a stickiness of a playback bar in a crowdsourced manner, comprising:

receiving a first command to play, fast forward, rewind, seek, or scrub through content being played on a display device, wherein the display device displays a graphical user interface (GUI) having the playback bar, wherein the playback bar includes a current playback time (CTI) and a plurality of scene change markers, wherein the playback bar is sticky;

executing the first command;

receiving a second command to pause or stop;

executing the second command;

identifying a scene change marker in the playback bar closest to the CTI after execution of the second command;

determining that a distance from the CTI to a closest scene change marker is not within a time threshold wherein the time threshold increases as a speed of the CTI corresponding to the first command increases;

detecting a manual snap of the CTI to a location in the playback bar close to the closest scene change marker, wherein the detecting represents training data; and

providing the training data to a crowdsource server, wherein the crowdsource server determines correlations and patterns in the training data to adjust the stickiness of the playback bar in a crowdsourced manner.