With VLC 2 or 3 on OS X, one can estimate the frame number as follows:
A. ADDON: Install Jump to time Previous Frame
via the macOS menu VLC > Addons Manager or the Ubuntu menu Tools > Plugins and extensions > Addons Manager tab > Extensions. In VLC 3, click the "Find more addons online" button. The online install page is here. Restart VLC. Use VLC > Extensions > Jump to time (Previous frame)
[Get time >>]
button to show the HH:MM:SS,mmm
lapse time.
B. CALCULATE/ESTIMATE: Convert HH:MM:SS,mmm
to total lapsed seconds SS.mmm
. Then total_lapsed_seconds * frame_rate_per_second = frame number.
Note: Jump To Time version 3 extension may need to be manually installed.
![Jump To Time extension](../../I/static/images/d7ff7dfdafa84c2480b146fa19e0bd5695a59e1d5330b803e1b39fd001776efb.png)
C. TIME: Use the "Time v3.2 (intf)" VLC Extension to display the running time _,mmm
on the screen in a playing video. A [Efps]
format option provides a elapsed time * fps estimate. The fps
value needs to be supplied in the format, e.g. [E25]
![Time Extension](../../I/static/images/9fd27d9471440c1d8a4cc4d935efc1bf961ab31deefa784305da4ebe8c048caf.png)
2Tip: one might want to add
fontsize=72
(or whatever) to the options to produce something more readable – Brian Gordon – 2019-06-22T17:58:43.570