Improve usability of time search/skip function in video player

Currently it is possible to skip to a particular time while playing back video (though only it seems in local content, not online video) by pressing the numbers of the time stamp to which you want to go.

I use this predominantly to skip back to positions of a video after falling asleep during playback or to skip to interesting parts of the video where I know something interesting happens.

My problem with this functionality is two-fold.

1) It only allows skipping to the nearest minute (since the entry format is xx:yy, where the xx stands for hour and yy for minute), which is very inconvenient, because it then necessitates frantic ffwd/rwd actions to get near to the second mark at which I really want playback to start.
2) The functionality is hidden. I only learned about it because someone on the boxee.tv forums mentioned it.

I previously used my Philips BDP7500 BluRay player as a media player, since it could playback local content from USB attached devices quite nicely (except it doesn't support NTFS but only FAT32, which means that playing large MKV files can only be done by splitting them, which wasn't convenient). It also has no internet streaming/browsing support, which is why I went for a Boxee Box in the first place.

One of the nicer features of the BDP7500 was that there was a Time Search option which allowed you to graphically select the time point to go to in the video. This worked much like the way it works on the Boxee box with the following exception:

It showed a nice box with the time stamp in hh:mm:ss, where the user could move around in and by using up and down on each position set the requested time point. It would skip to that point when the user pressed the OK button on the remote. With the current Boxee implementation I have to enter the HH and MM values sequentially and within a very short time otherwise the time skip is cancelled. Since the Remote makes entering numbers challenging (using alt and the top row always makes for some extra user input time) this is a hit and miss thing most of the time (easy to enter the wrong time stamp or just plain waiting too long between presses, which means starting over again).

So if you could make the time skip function more usable by making it more prominent (maybe somehow integrated in the playback controls bar that appears when the d-pad button is pressed) and adding a seconds field this would make the Boxee Box player much more usable

And for video playback which doesn't support this operation (like for instance streaming web video) you can then hide this option from the player bar.