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how can I view the milliseconds as a video plays?

You cannot, so far.

Is it possible to view the frame count at least? I need something more precise than seconds.

No, but this could be added. What do you need?

On a general level, all I need is some way to determine the current time in a video at a precision greater than seconds. I suppose what this translates into is probably a running frame count in the time stamp (or somewhere else, even in the terminal I suppose). Something akin to playing back a movie in iMovie, where it displays, for instance, 2:33.27 to indicate 2 minutes, 33 seconds, and 27 frames within that second, although a total frame count without parsing it into minutes and seconds would work just as well for my purposes.

Just to make it clearer, the reason for this is that I am using VLC to playback video for scientific purposes, and I need to know from some constant start time (which is not the beginning of the video) the time elapsed to a number of other points in the video, with precision at least at around tenths of a second. Semi-arbitrary time counts, such as number of frames, work just fine for this purpose.

hey, i have the exact same problem for the same (scientific) needs.
any chance a solution was found/created for this?

thanks!