[chibimagic]

I'm trying to frame step the video of an MKV file with 3 tracks: 30 fps video encoded with xvid, audio encoded with vorbis, and subtitles. The mkv plays fine in VLC, and I can play the video/audio tracks separately in quicktime if I extract them with mkvextract.

However, I'd like to frame step the video without having to process every mkv file. A post on the VLC forums says that VLC has no concept of frames, so this would be impossible in VLC. Does anyone know how I could do any of the following?

- step forward/backward by 1/30 second in VLC
- make quicktime recognize mkv
- some other way to frame step an mkv file

Thanks

[Uncle Skeleton]

As far as I know, they're right; you'll have to extract them. QT is actually somewhat exceptional among video players in that it lets you step frame by frame. Maybe you could script mkvtools to batch your files at least.

I tried to write a QT import component for mkv once. I'd like to think I would have noticed if a similar effort was underway, and I haven't. But that's not to say one isn't.