For analyzing videos, I am looking for a Linux tool to browse through frames one

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For analyzing videos, I am looking for a Linux tool to browse through frames one by one, both forward and backward in time.

I am currently using MPlayer for studying these videos, using . to step frame by frame. However, I cannot step through frames one-by-one backward in time.

Therefore, I am looking for a video-player that meets all of the following requirements:

Backward/reverse frame-by-frame stepping through the movie (of course also forward, but that seems obvious)
Runs on Linux (SLES for me)
Gratis
Support for AVI videos

I've read on some websites that VLC player or SMPlayer might be able to do this, but I could not confirm it in official resources, and rather not take the time to install a tool which in the end does not have the right features after all.

Explanation / Answer

With VLC you can slow down the file, but it isn't really frame-by-frame. OpenShot is a pretty lightweight (and very useful) video editor, which can show frame-by-frame.

You can use the left and right arrows to navigate frame-by-frame backwards or forwards in time.

You can also get a live DVD (or USB) with it on here

It's available in most repositories (yum install openshot or aptitude install openshot).

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