[vlc-devel] commit: Added hotkey code for input "frame-next". (Laurent Aimar )

[Pierre d'Herbemont]

On Aug 28, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:

> Le vendredi 28 août 2009 18:06:15 Pierre d'Herbemont, vous avez  
> écrit :
>> On Oct 22, 2008, at 10:22 PM, git version control wrote:
>>> vlc | branch: master | Laurent Aimar <fenrir at videolan.org> | Mon Oct
>>> 13 23:15:00 2008 +0200| [321e04ca2733320670bada94ae1b12e0e9ceb046] |
>>> committer: Laurent Aimar
>>>
>>> Added hotkey code for input "frame-next".
>>
>> What kind of limitation prevents us from having "frame-previous"?
>
> Of course, there is no limitation at the hotkey layer but...
>
> Many modern codecs don't support backward playback. The input code  
> does not
> support it.

I was wondering if there could be some kind of emulation at the input  
code level. ie - seek back to the right(!?) frame, and then frame next  
to find the frame we want. Easy to say... No idea if this is realistic/ 
easy.

Pierre.