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Why can't VLC 'scrub' easily?
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2002
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I'm trying to figure out how to get VLC to scrub smoothy through video files. I love the program, as it plays anything I throw at it, but I'd like to be able to go to a precise point in the video. Right now, I have to guess where the spot might be, and then drag the diamond-shaped marker somewhere close to the desired point. It is very imprecise!
Is there any way to expand the time line to see more discrete points that I could drag the marker to? Or, is there a way to specify that I want to jump to a certain time in the video?
Thanks for any help!
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Join Date: Jul 2002
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Command - Option - Left/Right Arrow will jump you back or forward in 10 second increments. Other than that or manually fast forwarding, I'm not sure how much more precise you can get.
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Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Netherlands
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Originally posted by Thinine:
Command - Option - Left/Right Arrow will jump you back or forward in 10 second increments. Other than that or manually fast forwarding, I'm not sure how much more precise you can get.
You can't get more precise than that. It is related to the fact that VLC was originally an MPEG2 stream client. We are a data(packet) based media player, whereas 99% of the other players are frame based players.
We are working on finding ways to allow for both modes depending on what is desired in which situation (network/file etc.). This however is a longterm thing and will take a long time before it is implemented.
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Derk-Jan Hartman, Student of the University Twente (NL), developer of VLC media player
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Thanks for the response! This explanation makes sense to me.
One question - could you allow horizontal re-sizing of the controller window so that I could stretch out the timeline and allow more precise mouse movements? This would allow me to how more precision in dragging the marker - currently I'm only getting 30-40s precision, whereas it sounds like the player is capable of giving 10s precision.
Any way this'll happen? Thanks!
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Join Date: May 2002
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In fact, there are not many players available which let you scrub through video files. Quicktime Player does it, but Windows Media Player (even the current version 10 for Windows), RealPlayer, vlc, mplayer all do not scrub and don't display the current position before you let go of the mouse button.
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Originally posted by Tsilou B.:
In fact, there are not many players available which let you scrub through video files. Quicktime Player does it, but Windows Media Player (even the current version 10 for Windows), RealPlayer, vlc, mplayer all do not scrub and don't display the current position before you let go of the mouse button.
Actually, it depends on the kind of compression used in the file as well as on the player. QuickTime Player does not scrub all file types in a useful way. RealPlayer 10 for Mac OS X will scrub as well as QuickTime does on the files that QuickTime allows scrubbing on.
QuickTime Player does have useful frame forward/back control. MPlayer does a pretty good job of jumping to random points in a file quickly.
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