Frame scrubbing
https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-release-12.0/
Jellyfin 12.0
New Features & Enhancements
User Experience - Web Client
,and.scrub frame-by-frame during playback.
That is exactly how MPV does it. But from what I remember, VLC devs claim it's impossible, so VLC only allows you to scrub forward frame-by-frame (using the e key), not backward. You can skip backwards in three-second increments or whatever, just not frame-by-frame. It's the main thing that keeps me using MPV as my default video player, because I frequently skip around videos trying to get a screenshot of the perfect frame to use to make a meme or something. Being able to scrub frame-by-frame in both directions is a big deal.
Frame scrubbing is certainly a relatively computationally taxing task. Oftentimes, while I am skipping around a video frame-by-frame with MPV, my computer's fans ramp up a bunch. It may be extra effort, but it is certainly possible; the VLC devs simply do not want to rewrite what needs to be rewritten to make that happen.
There is apparently a VLC plugin that adds this feature, but the UX seems to be rather clunky compared to the simple keystrokes involved in the Jellyfin/MPV way.
From my comment here: https://quokk.au/comment/5917329
Hopefully jokes/memes are welcome in this community. I did not see any rule against it.
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They claim reverse scrubbing is impossible because they haven’t thought beyond their current frame pipeline.
Wouldn’t be a performance hit if they used a ring buffer of cached frames, but I can see it being a pain in the ass to rewrite.