Frame-precise seeking
Every seek lands on the exact frame: scrubbing, jumping, and arrow-key stepping alike. Approximate seeking is not implemented, on purpose.
Mixed Punch Labs / public beta
Every frame, exactly where you asked.
Click 3:40 and you land on 3:40, not on a keyframe five seconds earlier. Glass Media Player drives FFmpeg directly from native code: one self-contained executable, no installer, no runtimes, no codec packs.
Timeline
1920 × 1080 · HEVC 10-bit · 35,315 frames
Seek target
frame 5,279 of 35,315 23.976 fps gop 120
Glass Media Player
3:40.178
Keyframe seeking
3:35.215 (4.963s off)
3:40.178
24:32.930
Drag the bar, or focus it and press ← → to step one frame at a time. The amber tick is where a keyframe-seeking player would actually land. That gap is the whole reason this player exists.
Three principles, no exceptions.
Clean
No clutter, no wasted resources. A player, not a platform: the controls that earn their place and nothing else.
Minimal
Built from the ground up in native code. One self-contained binary per platform, using only the libraries your OS already ships.
Complete
Everything expected to work, works, and works accurately. You should never need a second tool to finish the job.
Small player, serious playback.
Roughly eight megabytes, and it decodes what the big installs decode.
Modern codecs HEVC / 10-BIT / VFR
High bit depth, variable frame rate, and anamorphic video displayed at its true shape rather than squeezed.
Real ASS/SSA typesetting
Embedded fonts, karaoke timing, animated moves, and layered z-order, rendered natively without libass.
Image subtitles PGS / VOBSUB / DVB
Bitmap subtitle tracks decoded and positioned exactly against the video, down to the pixel.
Bit-perfect audio WASAPI EXCLUSIVE
Exclusive-mode output delivers samples to your DAC untouched, and audio realigns to the video sample-exactly after every seek.
Frame export and file inspection
Save any frame as a PNG with subtitles composited, and read a full technical report on the open file.
Download the beta.
No installer and no account. Unzip it, run it, delete it if you hate it.
Download for Windows
- version
- 0.98.0 beta
- size
- about 8 MB, one .exe
- needs
- Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
- checksum
- SHA-256
A macOS build is in final verification and joins the beta shortly. Windows may warn that the download is uncommon: the beta is not code-signed yet, so choose Keep, then More info and Run anyway.
What we would love you to break.
Playback is feature-complete for everyday use. Before 1.0 it needs to meet files we would never think to test.
- Your strangest files: odd containers, variable frame rate, timelines that start past zero, half-finished downloads.
- Seeking, relentlessly. Scrub hard, step frames, jump repeatedly near the very end of a file.
- Subtitle-heavy releases with typeset ASS tracks and embedded fonts.
- Unplugging your audio device or switching outputs mid-playback.
Found something? Mail holyc@mixedpunch.com with what you played and what happened. File Information in the app prints the exact technical details worth pasting in.