[Bf-taskforce25] 2.5 movie player

[Alberto Torres]

I use mplayer mf://*.png, with any mplayer option (including adding an
audio track, video effects, speed...), change speed with ctrl+[] and
backspace, and go frame by frame with the '.' button (can't go
backwards though).

Here's my proposal for blender's video player:

The video player would be just a regular blender window with 2 areas:
one big one with video playback (as the sequencer preview but playing
from a different source) and one with the timeline (with an specific
option to avoid updating other windows). It already has play controls
and scrubbing with variable precision (using the mouse wheel). I would
add a backwards playback to it. The area with the video can be
fullscreened with shift+spacebar (ctrl+spacebar in 2.5) or ctrl+up.

2009/6/17 Nathan Vegdahl <cessen at cessen.com>:
>> 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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