Frame preview thumbnails on timeline

[Flanter]

Is it possible to display a frame on the progress bar when the user moves the mouse over it? Something like this:



In theory, this should not be heavy resource-consuming if the nearest key frame is extracted.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Displaying the last key frame would not be expensive. Displaying the next one, it depends. But what is the point?

People generally expects to see the whole timeline of the video. YouTube and the likes do it offline ahead of time - not something VLC can afford.

[sah777]

Zoom Player can do this just great with no problems, so I don't see why VLC couldn't

[unidan]

Again, https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=100408&p=497014#p497014

[geluso]

What mechanism happens when I click at a spot in the seek bar? The video jumps forward and immediately shows me that point in the media.

I do notice the player can't keep up instantly if I press an arrow key rapidly over and over to scoot a direction in time. Maybe clicking once is efficient, but doing it over and over is expensive?