Hotkey for "Next Black Frame"

[shmorgasbored773]

Hello,

I'm new to the forum, but I have been using Avidemux for some time.

I use it every week to trim commercials from OTA recordings before I add the shows to my Plex server.

I constantly use the "next black frame" button, but there is no corresponding hotkey. Of course, "Next Black Frame" doesn't always work for trimming commercials, but it works 90% of the time and I use it a lot.

Is there a way to add this as a hotkey? I spent some time searching the forums, but I didn't find anything about adding this particular hotkey.

I've considered compiling my own version of Avidemux just to have a hotkey for this. Would this be possible? I'd hate to go to the trouble of attempting to compile the program (for windows) only to find out it didn't work.

Thanks in advance for any info.

[eumagga0x2a]

There is a pull request by szlldm adding keyboard shortcuts to custom scripts, waiting for being processed. Once it gets merged, you will get the infrastructure to call any scriptable commands using keyboard shortcuts.

Building Avidemux from source yourself is always the recommended way to obtain binaries, please have a look at the how-to: https://github.com/mean00/avidemux2/blob/master/cross-compiling.txt

[shmorgasbored773]

I'll keep an eye out for the "custom scripts" option being added.

And I'll look into that link about building my own from source.

Thanks for the quick response.

[butterw]

There is a pull request by szlldm adding keyboard shortcuts to custom scripts, waiting for being processed. Once it gets merged, you will get the infrastructure to call any scriptable commands using keyboard shortcuts.

+1 to adding keyboard shortcuts for custom scripts.

[eumagga0x2a]

I'll keep an eye out for the "custom scripts" option being added.

And I'll look into that link about building my own from source.

You might have a direct insentive to put your intention into practice as the mentioned above pull request has been merged and seek to black frames added to Avidemux Python-like scripting.

Seek to next black frame:

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#PY
#
adm = Avidemux()
if not adm.isFileOpen():
    return
adm.seekBlackFrame(1)
Seek to previous black frame:

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#PY
#
adm = Avidemux()
if not adm.isFileOpen():
    return
adm.seekBlackFrame(-1)
Some refinements are still missing: as of now, calling custom scripts pollutes the list of recent scripts.

[eumagga0x2a]

as of now, calling custom scripts pollutes the list of recent scripts.

Fixed.