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📣 herodoturtle

How can I play TENET backwards?


Many of the scenes in the film Tenet make a lot of sense when played backwards - and it's easy enough to rewind these scenes to appreciate their visual effect - but the sound in those scenes is also reversed, and I'd like to hear it.

Is there a way to play a DVD backwards with the sound played backwards at the same time so that it's audible?

I am a Linux user with mpv if that makes any difference.

  👤 FatalLogic Accepted Answer ✓
Search on Youtube for "Tenet Reversed"

But those scenes were not meant to be watched or heard unreversed, so you'll notice that the audio is still hard to understand, and even see some small mistakes in the stunt work and effects

This might be the easiest to watch, if you only want to see the reversed scenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j32zVGZoXJs

👤 sandreas
Get ffmpeg (e.g. a static release without lib dependencies from here: https://github.com/eugeneware/ffmpeg-static/releases/tag/b5....), then run:

  ffmpeg -i tenet.mp4 -vf reverse -af areverse tenet-reversed.mp4
Explanation:

  -i 
  -vf
👤 themodelplumber
Simple take: In those cases I'd use a mobile app that records sound and then plays backwards (there are several) and watch with that app ready on your phone or device.
👤 brutal_chaos_
This can be done with ffmpeg and it's "reverse" filter, it seems, according to:

https://video.stackexchange.com/a/35262

👤 6yyyyyy
GStreamer is able to play videos backwards. Use "gst-play-1.0", seek to the end, and press "d".