[Bernie07]

Hello,

first I must say I am very impressed about XMBC and it is the best DVD Player software I've found.

But one elementary feature is missing.

If I am pressing the pause button, I can not step one frame forward or backward. But this is a feature which has everey standalone dvd player. So I'm hoping that this feature will implemented in the near future.

Best wishes
Bernhard

[davilla]

Standalone dvd players decode mpeg2 which do not have fancy encoding tricks like h264. Single stepping h264 is a pain in the rear and very difficult to implement, specially with hardware decoders.

[Ned Scott]

For the short term, this is a feature of XBMC for the Raspberry Pi, since the Pi has some special sauce in how it plays back video.

[Bernie07]

Thanks for your answer.
I know it isn't easy to implement such a thing. So I'm looking forward for XBMC 14 (which has Frame by Frame stepping and Slow motion). Then I think XBMC is perfect for me.
Best wishes
Bernhard

[da-anda]

who said v14 will have that?

[Bernie07]

I can looking in the future. No, it was only a joke.

But I have a question to the keyboard.xml. I want to try to map a key which executes two actions.
Is it possible to do two actions one after another.

For example like :

<keymap>
<FullScreenVideo>
<keyboard>
<p>Pause;Pause</p>
</keyboard>
</FullScreenVideo>
</keymap>

I don't know which is the syntax if I want to call two actions one after another. In my example I have use the ; char. But this is wrong.

Is such a thing possible?

Best wishes
Bernhard

[Bernie07]

Now I have a solution for me.

the following script does what I want :

import xbmc, time
xbmc.executebuiltin("XBMC.PlayerControl(Play)")
time.sleep(0.01)
xbmc.executebuiltin("XBMC.PlayerControl(Play)")

First, I'm typing on the keyboard the normal Pause key. After that I'm click on a special key which I have mapped in keyboard.xml and runs the above script.

Best wishes
Bernhard

[manderlore]

Can anyone please help me to get the above script to work? I tired to copy it to my keyboard.xml but didn't work. I'm using SPMC but also tired it on Kodi for Windows. There i also tired to change the 'XBMC' to 'kodi' but didn't help. Nothing at all happens when I pressed the mapped button so hard to know what is wrong when there is no error message. I'm new to this so I might missing something basic.

[manderlore]

Please anyone can help?

[214b1]

I just came across this thread. I too would like this feature. In SageTV you press pause once and the video will pause. Press pause again and the video advances a single frame. Press play and the video resumes.

[Danny3]

Standalone dvd players decode mpeg2 which do not have fancy encoding tricks like h264. Single stepping h264 is a pain in the rear and very difficult to implement, specially with hardware decoders.

MPC-H has this feature and it works ok with H264

Maybe you can take a look at how they do it

[da-anda]

MPC-H is not using HW decoder chips, does it?

[Ned Scott]

Even if it does, I assume they use a very different video player than we do, which wouldn't make their work very useful to us.

[Danny3]

MPC-H is not using HW decoder chips, does it?

It uses DXVA, if this is what you asked

[da-anda]

MPC-H is not using HW decoder chips, does it?

It uses DXVA, if this is what you asked

No, I was referring to what Davilla said about embedded systems (like anything ARM) that rely on a h264 decoder chip/GPU and that these might not be that easy to convince to do frame stepping or not support it at all, while it might be rather simple for software decoders