[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] key assignment for frame-stepping

[Ed Wildgoose]

> Ed Wildgoose wrote:
> > I'm coming in late here, but why not do something like have it frame
> > step when you use fast forward/rewind keys in, say, pause mode?  
> This is
> > how many VCRs work?
>
> I don't like it and implementing it would be more work. Not to mention 
> that those keys are currently {,[,] and }. Hardly better to reach that 
> '.' ...


I'm not going to strongly disagree, except to say that some users have a 
remote control, not a keyboard... There are far fewer buttons on my 
remote for obvious reasons.

You also said that we shouldn't override the fastforward keys to do 
frameskipping when in pause mode because you might hit it accidently 
when not in pause mode... Well perhaps I misunderstood, but isn't frame 
stepping most useful only when you are in pause mode anyway?  Would you 
really be trying to engage it when the video was passing by at full 
throttle anyway?

I might have misunderstood the intention of the patch, but I find it 
occasionally useful in other video players to be able to pause on a 
specific scene and then flick around frame forward and back to try and 
see exactly what is happening.  Think football and whether the ball hit 
the line (or magic tricks is another good one!).  I thought that this 
was what this patch was trying to achieve?

Just a thought anyway....

Ed W