Video player that shows milliseconds

[Night457]

Does anyone know of a FREE videoplayer that currently allows the display of milliseconds and can do frame advance?

It is only recently that I discovered that MPC-BE could be toggled to show milliseconds in the time, and then suddenly that feature disappeared. I updated to the next version, and it was still gone. This feature is very useful for muxing in audio from another source using MKV Toolnix and getting the audio timing correct.

Right-click on time and then select "Show milliseconds" as detailed here:
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/397 ... of-a-frame

Now all the right-click does is to toggle between time elapsed or time remaining.

Please help!

[DreamScape]

I use MPC's "Go to..." popup for milliseconds and frame number of the current position.

CTRL+G or from the Play menu

If I'm working on subtitles, you can also get milliseconds from the SubtitleEdit timeline when playing a video.

[Night457]

THANK YOU!!! That "Go to..." option will work perfectly!

Using SubtitleEdit is a possible workaround, but it requires subtitles and playback in the tiny little window. I don't think SubtitleEdit has frame advance, however. I used to use the Avidemux Preview to get milliseconds with frame precision, but it takes awhile to load the video in the first place. I wanted quick playback in an actual video player rather than a Preview player in software used for another purpose. It was really annoying that the millisecond display so quickly disappeared from MPC after I discovered it, when I had already been using MPC for years! Thank you for pointing out another way to find milliseconds in the same software.

[VidGuy]

For the benefit of future searchers: Just checked with my preferred player MPV.

There you can enable an On Screen Display during playback that displays milliseconds:

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mpv --osd-fractions --osd-level=2 [file] 

The other advantage it has, is that not only does it a frame advance (with . key) but also a frame back (with , key), which is something I haven't seen in another player so far.

[Night457]

I am definitely interested, thanks! Unfortunately this would take me hours to figure out how to install. Is this one of those programs that requires Python Installer? It looks like you gave a Command line code. Does that need to be used for every file in order to open it in the player? It doesn't have an "Open ..." menu item?

[VidGuy]

He. Unfortunately for me it's the other way around probably. Haven't really done anything in Windows in the last ~15 years.

MPV is available for me on Linux by just selecting the package to install, and then I just double-clicking the video file in my file browser for it to start to play. But MPV does't need or use Python in any way I know of, it is a compiled program.

On Windows this would probably the easiest option:

https://nightly.link/mpv-player/mpv/wor ... ild/master

Download the last ZIP File in the list and extract it. Start the mpv.exe by double-clicking it. Then you could drop files from Windows Explorer into the Window that should be open with the message "drop files or URLs to play here"

If *that* works, then there are some possible options to automate the launch of Video Files from Windows Explorer or from a Desktop Link.. But trying too many steps at once will get too complicated I think...

[Night457]

Somehow I just knew you were a Linux user! Thanks for the suggested link because that one actually worked. I had tried others with your previous link but they did not work. I would normally skip over anything that says x86 because my computer is x64 but I went ahead with it anyway. Making a Desktop Shortcut and creating an "Open with..." menu option was easy.

Unfortunately, with absolutely no menu I can not do much of anything with it. Play, pause, scroll the slider, that's it. I really can not imagine using Command line to enable more options. I absolutely need an interactive GUI for playing videos. Thank you very much for your patience in getting it to work for me so I could try it out!

[Zorijer]

There's a mod to add that to VLC: https://addons.videolan.org/p/1154032
And you can add a 'frame by frame' button through 'customize interface', though it has difficulty in some videos.