Obligatory reply that doesn't answer your question at all but offers a possible alternative:
What if you play and pause very quickly? Hitting spacebar twice in a row should accomplish the same thing. May not be frame perfect, but you could skip 1 second short of your destination to compensate. -wes (How many PLUGers does it take to screw in a light bulb.....) On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 7:27 PM Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > A version or two back, VLC Media Player would actually jump to a time > specified in the Jump to box, (or right arrow, or ctl-right arrow, etc.) > But now, the jump doesn't actually happen until one switches from pause > to play. I'm transcribing a file that has time codes in the video. I > need to type the time code that happens at each minute in the recording. > While I can jump ahead minute by minute, I can't see what the time code > is until I hit play. But then I lose the frame counter. (HH:MM:SS:FF > where FF runs from 01 to 24). > > Does anyone know how to get the frame to display without hitting play? > > Alternatively, does anyone know of a video player that will do that? > > TIA. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
