Media Players & Recording Software

Custom players and recorders with accurate seeking, A/V sync, GPU rendering, and recordings that stay playable after a crash or power loss.

Off-the-shelf player components work well until you need frame-accurate stepping, synchronized multi-stream playback, custom overlays, or recordings that survive a crash. That’s when I build the media layer itself. A player is mostly about clocks. I choose a master clock — usually audio, because listeners notice audio glitches first; sometimes an external or wall clock for multi-stream sync — and schedule video frames against it from their presentation timestamps. Seeking has to land on the preceding keyframe and decode forward to the target, so seek speed depends on how the content was…