Playing video as fast as possible?

[Zarxrax]

Does anyone know of some software that will display the frames of a video file as fast as my pc can decode them? I would like to be able to check through entire files more quickly than the normal playback speed, but I don't want to miss any frames. Virtualdub's "scene forward" button kinda does what I want, but it begins dropping frames after 1 or 2 seconds.

[carlo_0000]

yes

install Fraps

than play your video with directx9 output

exemple
in media player classic > option > playback > output > vrm9 renderless

[foxyshadis]

What does fraps have to do with speeding up video? All it does for mine is tack a 30 onto the corner.

You can always use avisynth, like AviSource("...").Assumefps(9999), which normally won't drop any frames when played. DSS probably won't either. Overlay mode is best. Vdub might work if you turn off frame skipping and direct3d.

[Mug Funky]

i vote mplayer -benchmark -nosound

of course, you might miss frames if it decodes faster than your refresh rate.

[edit]

if you're looking for obvious glitches it's possible to use avisynth + avsutil.exe -play, with a writefileif() command inside. i use that method to check field-order (though it only plays 100 frames). glitches have to be obvious enough that you can make a metric to find them that runs fast...

[Zarxrax]

I had considered raising the framerate in avisynth, but on my system DSS does drop a lot of frames. I hadn't considered playing the script in vdub though, and that actually seems to work fairly well.

I'll try out the mplayer and avsutil stuff later when I get a chance. :thanks: