Yep. It's a lot of work creating a non-stuttering, fast-seeking player using ffmpeg/libav. For high resolution / high bitrate streams ffmpeg doesn't issue frame

Yep. It's a lot of work creating a non-stuttering, fast-seeking player using ffmpeg/libav. For high resolution / high bitrate streams ffmpeg doesn't issue frames smoothely in itself (I-frames takes longer) so I had to create a whole caching structure and issue the frames from a different thread to get it to play smoothely in my application... On the other hand there are so many edge cases around codecs and assumptions around what is and is not coming so I think that if a different API was created there would likely be a lot of cases where it would break? Something like the NDI API would be great, it is really quick to integrate.