Why seeking in Electron's video player stutters – and how I fixed it
I built a video player called Doggy Player because seeking in the players I tried always felt janky. When I moved to Electron, I hit the same problem in a new form: Chromium's <video> element is great at playing files and surprisingly bad at jumping around in some of them. This is what I found, and what I did about it. Why seeking is slow To show a frame at an arbitrary position, a decoder has to…
Dev.to's article "Why seeking in Electron's video player stutters – and how I fixed it" discusses the issues faced when building a video player called Doggy Player using Electron. The main problems identified are slow seeking, issues with certain file formats, and the seek controller affecting the user experience. To address these problems, the author implemented several fixes, including probing files to determine the actual container format, re-encoding files with dense keyframes for long-GOP sources, and improving the seek controller's responsiveness.
The result is a modern, source-available video player for Windows, macOS, and Linux called Doggy Player.
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