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1113 points Bluestein | 1 comments | 17 Aug 24 18:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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lairv ◴[17 Aug 24 21:38 UTC] No.41278203[source]▶
I use it to inspect video frames by frames, particularly being able to go back one frame. VLC doesn't support it, this thread about the feature is hilarious https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=120627
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justin66 ◴[18 Aug 24 01:09 UTC] No.41279364[source]▶
The developer responds to a comment:

But many players are able to do it for years.

with:

If it's so easy, why are you not doing it?

He's not just a butthole, he's a stereotypical open source developer butthole. On the other hand, if he worked for Microsoft, he'd be claiming that it takes a PhD to do it...

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Levitating ◴[18 Aug 24 02:05 UTC] No.41279587[source]▶
In his defense, some commenters had a pretty rude attitude. You cannot demand developers to implement a feature or call them out on being lazy.

Nobody even offered to research how other players accomplish this. They just expect that because they believe it can be done someome should do the work for them.

At least Remi was actually andering questions on the forums.

This attitude towards open source maintainers is what's getting them all burned out.

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1. KingMob ◴[18 Aug 24 04:09 UTC] No.41280071[source]▶
As a FOSS maintainer, I have sympathy for him, but as a communicator, I see he really failed to address multiple commenters pointing out that several other FOSS video projects had the feature. (At least in the first page of comments.)