FastPlay, a fast minimal Windows video player built in Rust
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HN · launched Jun 25, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 87%) · 2 views
Niche: video players and display software · 91 launches, 7 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
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- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No Writing a fast native Windows video player in Rust requires low-level media decoding, GPU rendering pipelines (DirectX/Direct3D), and precise audio/video clock synchronization.
What it would actually take: The player needs Rust bindings to FFmpeg or Windows Media Foundation for decoding video/audio streams, coupled with a Direct3D 11/12 or Vulkan swapchain for hardware-accelerated rendering. The critical complexity lies in real-time AV sync, frame-accurate seeking, color-space conversion (YUV to RGB) in compute shaders, and low-latency audio output (WASAPI). This demands specialized graphics, DSP, and systems programming expertise.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 3287 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #2942 of 3288 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 237 days after the earliest competitor.
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- frost · github · 2026-09-24 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.69
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- clearstream · github · 2026-10-21 · 32 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Viddcut · hn · 2026-06-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- windvd-media-player · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- rec-rs · github · 2026-10-11 · 83 upvotes · similarity 0.64
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