[MPlayer-users] Re: Frame-by-frame scrubbing

[Andrew Klaassen]

On Wed May 5 16:20:32 CEST 2004,
Ville Saari wrote:

> On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 05:48:42PM -0400, D Richard Felker III
> wrote:
> 
> > > Any chance Mplayer could/would support frame-by-frame
> > > scrubbing?
> > 
> > Current MPlayer, no, probably never. Keep on the lookout for
> > something else tho in the future!
> 
> Frame-by-frame stepping in forward direction only is trivial
> to implement. Attached patch to mplayer.c modifies it so that
> if you unpause mplayer with any cursor key, then it will play
> only one frame and pause again.

I guess the trick would be going backwards?  (And audio...)

For the person who asked, scrubbing is dragging the progress bar
thingie back and forth and having the frames be displayed at
whatever speed you're dragging at, forward or backwards. 
Animators use it all the time to check their animations.

Andrew Klaassen