Quicktime : the dying and abandonned file format

[ematecki]

But the best thing to do is....

Pick a good opensource player with reactive developers (VLC comes to mind), and ask them to add the frame by frame playback, explaining them WHY you need it.

[Paul Fierlinger]

and....? What happens?

[ematecki]

You can get rid of quicktime in your workflow :)

You better do it now so you have an alternative when quicktime is gone for good...

[Paul Fierlinger]

But do you really believe that writing them this request will make it happen? It has been debated in zillions of blogs all over the universe; if they knew how to do it, it surely would have been done by now. BTW, I think QT has terrible colors and wouldn't be surprised if it is because of this. Perhaps the volunteers behind VLC don't want to sacrifice their color quality for this feature.

[Elodie]

But do you really believe that writing them this request will make it happen?

Why not ?

But yes, y'oure maybe right. I would be surprised that nobody have already asked this.

Edit : oh, my bad...

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Use [E] to go to next frame

[idragosani]

But the best thing to do is....

Pick a good opensource player with reactive developers (VLC comes to mind), and ask them to add the frame by frame playback, explaining them WHY you need it.

I think VLC supports frame by frame viewing already

[slowtiger]

No.

[Paul Fierlinger]

You made my heart skip a beat... I downloaded the latest version 2.0.8 with high hopes...but it's not quite there yet, although better than I last remember. It's improved in the way you can do a more detailed search but I wouldn't call it frame by frame scrubbing yet. It does prove that they are working on it though.

[Paul Fierlinger]

Guess what! I'll take what I said back When using my ShuttlePro I can indeed advance VLC frame by frame. Not literally scrubbing by dragging the progress bar like you can with QT, but everybody should have ShuttlePro by now anyway.

[idragosani]

You can also "scrub" with the mousewheel (although I think it does in 3 second increments). Maybe this is adjustable.

[slowtiger]

- On Mac the mousewheel sets the volume (i think this can be changed)
- The smallest increment is indeed 3 sec, and not adjustable anywhere.

[Elodie]

Use [E] to go to next frame

[Paul Fierlinger]

Or under View check Advanced Controls and use the red arrow button. Again, only forward though.

[idragosani]

- On Mac the mousewheel sets the volume (i think this can be changed)
- The smallest increment is indeed 3 sec, and not adjustable anywhere.

Actually, it can be modified via the vlcrc file, which is a text file which contains all possible configuration values (on Linux, it's under $HOME/.config/vlc, probably in a similar place on OS X and Windows). Unfortunately, you are still only restricted to integer values for seconds. The mousewheel action can be modified also.

[Elodie]

I split the thread, in order to not bothering the 10.5 issues thread