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I think another sign of a projects long term decline is developers that are all too happy to expand …

… I think another sign of a projects long term decline is developers that are all too happy to expand the scope of the project. If that happens I just know that down the line the feature I started using the software because of is down prioritized due to the "need of supporting markdown in the email editor" when the software started as a MSN chat archiver.

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anigbrowlHN

I'll be happy to switch over to MPV for this alone. VLC is great in general, but lacking some basic features. This sort of 'not possible' nonsense from developers is always a sign of a project's long-term decline.

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So you’re saying going forward 1 frame in a video is in the scope, but going back 1 frame is out of scope. Weird stance.

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anigbrowlHN

I see your point, but frame advance/rewind is very very basic stuff, a feature that has been around since VCRs went on sale to consumers in the 1980s. Doing it on digital videos with intraframe compression obviously requires some memory tradeoffs, but it's inarguably core functionality for a video playback application.

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