[Bf-taskforce25] 2.5 movie player

[Nathan Vegdahl]

> As mentioned at the winter camp, I'd also like the ability to spawn an
> external player,

   Absolutely, I think this is important too.  +1

   Having blender ship with a player is also important, IMO.  As a
blender user I expect it, and it's just so darned convenient, and at
least I personally haven't managed to get any functionally sufficient
alternative working on Linux.

--Nathan V

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Matt Ebb<matt at mke3.net> wrote:
> As mentioned at the winter camp, I'd also like the ability to spawn an
> external player, such as DJV ( http://djv.sourceforge.net/ ) which we
> use at work and is quite superior to Blender's player ;) Other people
> use commercial apps like FrameCycler too.
>
> Though i agree if blender does ship with a ram player, it should have
> some GUI elements, rather than those hotkeys which nobody knows unless
> you've read the code or had it passed down by secret handshakes.
>
> Matt
>
>
> On 17/06/2009, at 3:52 AM, William Reynish wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Here's a fun proposal to put a graphical user interface in the Blender
>> movie player. Currently you can pause, play, rewind, scrub, and even
>> regulate playback speed. However, all these features are hidden under
>> secret keyboard commands.
>>
>> http://www.reynish.com/files/blender25/movieplayer.png
>>
>> I do wonder how easy this is to do though. Is the Blender movie player
>> even OpenGL?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> -William
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