Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Avi-player diplaying the current frame counter while playing ?

On 05/26 02:29, wabe wrote:
> tuxic@××××××.de wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > currentlu I am playing around with Blender animations.
> >
> > To sync certain movements of objects to other objects
> > I need the exact frame number, at which "something
> > happens" ;)
> >
> > The clips are of the avi-format but they are of non
> > standard resultions. MPlayer does not play them
> > ("no audio found" and that's it) but mpv has no
> > problem with them.
> > But mpv only prints the perceantage of how much
> > is played already (I cant convice mpv otherwise...)
> >
> > Is there a way to instruct mpv to print the current
> > frame count while playing?
>
> I read the mpv man page and found a solution.
>
>
> Create a file ~/.mpv/input.conf with the content
>
> i show-text ${estimated-frame-number}
>
> When playing a video you can now press the i-key to see the
> current framenumber.
>
> But manpage says about the estimated-frame-number property:
> "This is only an estimate. (It's computed from two unreliable
> quantities: fps and possibly rounded timestamps.)
>
> I've tested it with some videos that I recorded with my
> smartphone and it seemed that the printed frame number was
> always correct.
>
>
> Another thing that it maybe useful:
>
> If you start mpv from command line with these two options
>
> --osd-level=3 --osd-fractions=yes
>
> then the OSD as well as the console output shows you the
> current timestamp with milliseconds.
>
> If you don't wanna start mpv from command line then you can
> also add these two options to ~/.mpv/config
> If you do this you need a line for every option and you may
> not include the double hyphens.
>
>
> Btw.: If you press the . key while playing a video, mpv will
> switch to single frame mode. Every time you press this key
> again, mpv shows the next frame.
> You can use the space bar to continue/pause the video.
>
> --
> Regards
> wabe
>
Hi Wabe,

thanks for your help and search!!!  :)

Before I sent my post I looked through the mpv manpages and searched
for keywords like "frame counter", "frames", "position" etc. and
either overlooked what you have found or it makes not "click" in my
head since it seems now that I did not fully understood what I saw (I
am no native speaker)...

I will tryt out that!

Cheers
Meino