I would like to do the following on iPhone/iPodTouch: Open a video and - via swipe or tilt - use gesture to move through each frame. Think of it as a gestural flipbook.
Does the video API support seeking frame by frame in this manner?
Thanks, Doug
A:
There's no direct support for this in the SDK with Apple's move player, but you could potentially build it yourself using FFmpeg or a similar library.
David Maymudes
2009-11-20 20:32:04
How would that work with ffmpeg? Please outline a bit more. It doesn't make sense to me because ffmpeg itself does not run on the iPhone--it merely encodes source media to a target format that the iPhone can read.
Stu Thompson
2009-11-21 09:46:38
You can compile parts of the FFmpeg library into your app; see for example http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2009-October/076618.html. It's not exactly easy, and there are licensing issues to be aware of, but it's definitely possible.
David Maymudes
2009-11-21 17:53:12