[sfpotter]

Every time I've needed to scrub through something in time like that, dumping a ton of frames to disk using imshow has been good enough. Usually, the limiting factor is how quickly I can generate a single frame.

It's hard for me to imagine what you're doing that necessitates such fancy tools, but I'm definitely interested to learn! My failure of imagination is just that.

[fpl-dev]

The example from the article with the subtitle "Large-scale calcium imaging dataset with corresponding behavior and down-stream analysis" is a good example. We have brain imaging video that is acquired simultaneously with behavioral video data. It is absolutely essential to view the raw video at 30-60Hz.