ffplay video playing with slider where i can slider to any position of the video

Question

is it possible to slide to a specific location of video in FFplay?

Like how we do in VLC when we open a video a slider will be a bottom using which we can move to any part of the video is it possible in ffplay? using either commands or any GUI

Worrywart

Answer 1

There is no slider / progression bar / seek bar

ffplay has no on-screen-display (OSD) bar for seeking.

Use mpv intead

mpv is like a "super" ffplay, has an OSD bar, and can use the same filters as ffplay. mpv is a real player. ffplay is more of an example or a proof-of-concept.

Available controls for ffplay

From the ffplay documentation:

• s - Step to the next frame. Pause if the stream is not already paused, step to the next video frame, and pause.

• left/right - Seek backward/forward 10 seconds.

• down/up - Seek backward/forward 1 minute.

• Page Down/Page Up - Seek to the previous/next chapter. If there are no chapters seek backward/forward 10 minutes.

• right mouse click - Seek to percentage in file corresponding to fraction of width.

Vote

yes @Vote sir I did check these shortcuts but I just wanted to know is a way to move video to a particular point as we do in any kind of video player using the slider is it possible in ffplay as I'm building a video editor I wanna show video before converting using FFmpeg so I'm using ffplay to show it so i though of adding a slider so user can check video as every video editor has it Thank you – Worrywart

@EswarT ffplay has no slider. See updated answer for an alternative. – Vote

thanks buddy will look into it Thanks a lot – Worrywart

sir i have posted another query please check it once "#67086453" Thank you – Worrywart

How to step forward one frame? – Ichnography

ffplay really deserves some more dev love! – Rogerrogerio