Re:mpv a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player
by marcus_holmes on Sunday August 18, 2024 @09:34PM
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The whole point that Remi was making is that doing this for one format is probably easy. Doing this for all formats in a consistent manner with a consistent experience is not easy, verging on impossible. Other players only support a limited set of formats, so can do this easily. VLC supports everything, so therefore has to handle all the bizarre quirks that make this a very difficult task.
https://www.donhopkins.com/home/catalog/lang/scriptx/anim.ht...
ScriptX's QuickTime renderer would even play audio backwards and at whatever speed, too. ScriptX had excellent multimedia synchronization, and it would have been considered a terrible bug if it was not possible to synchronize video and audio with any arbitrary clock, no matter what the scale and direction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScriptX