I used Plex for my home media for almost a year, then it stopped playing nice for reasons I gave up on diagnosing. While looking at alternatives, I found Jellyfin which is much more responsive, IMO, and the UI is much nicer as well.
It gets relegated to playing Fraggle Rock and Bluey on repeat for my kiddo these days, but I am absolutely in love with the software.
What are some other FOSS gems that are a better experience UX/UI-wise than their proprietary counterparts?
EDIT: Autocorrect turned something into “smaller” instead of what I meant it to be when I wrote this post, and I can’t remember what I meant for it to say so it got axed instead.
Option 3 is the usual method, & it works quite fast on almost any machine that’s even capable of decoding high bitrate video fast enough to keep up with its framerate, in the first place. On a HDD, that previous frame may briefly require seeking to get back to, but no such delay occurs with flash storage.
Of course, it doesn’t need to be done fast; we’re talking about long looks at single frames!
For best results, frame-capture apps use cross-frame interpolation with motion estimation (& these days, AI).
I don’t remember the last device I saw, that would struggle with this in any way. It’s basically just been dismissed as unimportant, by the VLC devs, rather than actually being all-that-difficult to implement.
I’m shocked that VLC doesn’t offer reverse playback by now, given the absolutely enormous video resources & random access storage, we’re all blessed with now.