search

Rickaym / manim-sideview

A Manim utility extension for Visual Studio Code.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Rickaym.manim-sideview
MIT License
99 stars 11 forks source link

Settings for using a custom external video player. #26

Closed Aurora2500 closed 1 year ago

Aurora2500 commented 1 year ago

I came across needing to seek or rewind a video in the playback, but as it was said in #7, this seems to be a limitation on VSCode's part.

I figured that a neat alternative to it could be to give it a setting to run a command against the file itself. This way, upon saving my scenes, the extension can just open my own video player that doesn't need to adhere to Code's limitations.

So for example, I could set it as mpv --loop, and this would mean that when I save my scene, it would open it with mpv --loop path/to/video.mp4 & I could see it with mpv where I can seek trough it and so on.

Rickaym commented 1 year ago

Great idea, I can work on this as part of the 0.1.5 release :) I've also been working on trying to connect the extension with an external media player (specifically the VLC media player) as part of the release--this feature request seems easier to integrate and useful.

Ricky.

Rickaym commented 1 year ago

Hi @Aurora2500 Please look at https://github.com/Rickaym/manim-sideview#3-how-do-i-execute-a-command-after-the-rendering-is-done on how to do this.

Ricky.