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Janskeet said:

Does VLC player have a feature to move one frame at a time?

No, and it is the only downfall of that program to me.  I did reformat my system and set it to be my default multimedia player though!

EDIT: Yes, I do the screenshots for most of the Revisited comparisons by pressing pause and hoping its the moment I want.  Thankfully the beta for 1.0 of VLC has live preview, so you can just drag the slider and see where it is in the video currently.  It also takes one more copy of a screenshot each time you take one!  I ended up with 12 screenshots of one frame by the time I was done with the ESBR trailer!

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I managed to get Ady's ANH AVCHD to play on Vlc through linux but it was a complicated procedure on a biggish tower and was still a bit choppy because of an issue with the linux version of Vlc which is being fixed (or so they say) so it should work well with other formats if you can get into stream folder (it's not really a job you can do on a laptop, you need quite a fast graphics card for it to cope with all that information rushing through the player at once). It was a head scratching afternoon, which the better half did most of the hard work on (but I made the tea).

Vlc doesn't have a frame by frame step option on any of the versions I've got access to.

What I do is to run the file as slowly as possible and be quick fingered on the mouse button to push pause where necessary it's a bit frustrating at times but it's a small price to pay (in terms of patience) for a player that does almost anything for no money at all.

The digital interence you posted screen captures of look rather like the player is trying to process the file while something else (or the file size) is slowing it down.

So if the file is huge and your playing it on a slow computer or you have process hungry programs running in the background you might get problems like that.

It might also be caused by the player trying to error correct a damaged file.

Haven't a clue about the error message.

It's possible that you were attempting to run the film from a folder with a readme file inside but on all the versions I've got it will ignore any file format that isn't something it can play (that might be down to the settings I have for error alerts).

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I just downloaded the updated 1.0 version of VLC player which claims it can now has features to move frame by frame and has a lot of fixes for bugs, but I haven't noticed any difference and now it won't read my VIDEO_TS folders. I get this error: