Patent ID: 8422643

Claim:
A media system comprising: a media player having a scrub bar and a playhead, the scrub bar operable to represent a time line of a media recording that is being played and the playhead indicating a portion of the media recording that is being played; an input operable to receive a user input to move the playhead; and a processor configured to: dynamically adjust a speed of playback of the media recording as a continuous function of an acceleration or a deceleration of the playhead moving along the scrub bar in response to the user input, and compensate for the dynamically adjusted speed of the playback of the media recording by: dynamic adjustment of frequencies of a resultant audio of the playback according to the dynamically adjusted speed of the playback in response to the media recording comprising audio; and dynamic adjustment of one or more video compression picture types of a resultant video of the playback according to the dynamically adjusted speed of the playback in response to the media recording comprises video, wherein the speed of playback is adjusted without lock-step thresholds, and wherein the dynamic adjustment of frequencies of the resultant audio of the playback comprises dynamic adjustment of frequencies of the resultant audio to match original frequencies of the audio, and wherein each of the acceleration and the deceleration comprises a rate at which a velocity of the user input changes.