user9332: Does anyone know of a program, or feature in VLC, that allows you to skip smoothly from frame to frame when dragging the progress bar? Right now, when I drag it in VLC, it jumps several frames.

user9105: mpv has very good real-time scrubbing using the mouse on the on-screen controls.
It also has seek-while-paused, and accurate-seek (decode-from-prev-keyframe) for seeking backward by 1sec.  Also frame-step backward and forward.  (controls: , and .).
It also has an A/B loop keybind, where you can easily get it looping over a part of the video.
So basically it has a lot of features that are great for reviewing a video frame-by-frame looking for problems, or stuff like that.
It's still in active development, make sure you get an up-to-date version for the most features and bugfixes.  I've only used it on GNU/Linux, but I understand it works on Windows and OS X, too.

9332: <p>Does anyone know of a program, or feature in VLC, that allows you to skip smoothly from frame to frame when dragging the progress bar? Right now, when I drag it in VLC, it jumps several frames.</p>
 9105: <p><a href="http://mpv.io/" rel="nofollow">mpv</a> has very good real-time scrubbing using the mouse on the on-screen controls.</p>

<p>It also has seek-while-paused, and accurate-seek (decode-from-prev-keyframe) for seeking backward by 1sec.  Also frame-step backward and forward.  (controls: <code>,</code> and <code>.</code>).</p>

<p>It also has an A/B loop keybind, where you can easily get it looping over a part of the video.</p>

<p>So basically it has a lot of features that are great for reviewing a video frame-by-frame looking for problems, or stuff like that.</p>

<p>It's still in active development, make sure you get an up-to-date version for the most features and bugfixes.  I've only used it on GNU/Linux, but I understand it works on Windows and OS X, too.</p>
