[Bf-taskforce25] 2.5 movie player

[Nathan Vegdahl]

> (can't go backwards though).

   Yup.  That's the problem for me with that option.  I definitely
need to be able to frame-step backwards.  And play things in reverse
as well (sounds strange, but I use it all the time).

--Nathan V

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Alberto Torres<kungfoobar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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