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Re:VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award... by gyomu on Friday November 07, 2025 @05:41PM (#45852074)
I used VLC until I looked for a backward frame step functionality. I then found this thread on the VLC forums where the maintainers explain (with bad attitude) why this functionality is technically impossible. Everyone points out that mpv supports it, but the maintainers double down and say they’re Doing It Wrong and it shouldn’t be possible.

So anyways, I switched to mpv.

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=120627

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Re:VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award... by Barbing on Friday November 07, 2025 @07:12PM (#45852833)
“I, like others, arrived here through a Google search looking for this feature. Reading this thread is one of the worst decisions I've made recently. I will never have this time back and I am worse for it.”
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Re:VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award... by Springtime on Friday November 07, 2025 @09:45PM (#45853659)
On Windows at least VLC has had better alternatives for the past 20 years, both feature and UI wise. I had frame-stepping hotkeys back in the mid-00s with Korean video players. These days I use the currently maintained fork of MPC-HC which similarly has this.

On Mac it wasn't until the mid-10s that I found a decent player.

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Re:VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award... by naIak on Saturday November 08, 2025 @09:16AM (#45856792)
And which one is it. I’m using mpv currently.
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Re:VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award... by haiguise on Saturday November 08, 2025 @07:16PM (#45861559)
https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc
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Re:VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award... by naIak on Saturday November 08, 2025 @07:51PM (#45861823)
I was asking about mac :P
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Re:VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award... by Springtime on Saturday November 08, 2025 @10:37PM (#45862690)
I believe it was IINA, a front-end for mpv.
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