[vlc-devel] Hot keys to log timestamp parts of video

[Steve Lhomme]

On 2022-03-05 19:01, John Hammer wrote:
> Hi,
>     I want to retrieve the start and end timestamp of parts of the video 
> for post-processing with an external program. Since Lua extension does 

You mean visually ? There are time events reported by the core that you 
can hook into to know where you are.

> not support keybindings, I have decided to modify the source code. I 
> could compile the 3.x branch and debug the qt module interface. It looks 
> like this in the keypress event callbacks of this module is where the 
> code to log the timestamps should go.
> 
>      Am I on the right track on implementing this feature or is there 
> any other way?
> 
>     I also would like to color the areas on the time slider where the 
> start and end timestamps occurred. I have no idea how to achieve this. 
> Any suggestions on which module to be changed to achieve this?

If you want to change the UI you have to modify the Qt gui module/

> -- 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
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