diff --git a/src/renderer/controllers/playback-controller.js b/src/renderer/controllers/playback-controller.js
index fc8b3205..2e6ec670 100644
--- a/src/renderer/controllers/playback-controller.js
+++ b/src/renderer/controllers/playback-controller.js
@@ -158,6 +158,20 @@ module.exports = class PlaybackController {
     else this.state.playing.jumpToTime = time
   }
 
+  // Show video preview
+  preview (x) {
+    if (!Number.isFinite(x)) {
+      console.error('Tried to preview a non-finite position ' + x)
+      return console.trace()
+    }
+    this.state.playing.previewXCoord = x
+  }
+
+  // Hide video preview
+  clearPreview () {
+    this.state.playing.previewXCoord = null
+  }
+
   // Change playback speed. 1 = faster, -1 = slower
   // Playback speed ranges from 16 (fast forward) to 1 (normal playback)
   // to 0.25 (quarter-speed playback), then goes to -0.25, -0.5, -1, -2, etc
diff --git a/src/renderer/main.js b/src/renderer/main.js
index a98a6e0f..cbed5a19 100644
--- a/src/renderer/main.js
+++ b/src/renderer/main.js
@@ -274,6 +274,8 @@ const dispatchHandlers = {
   previousTrack: () => controllers.playback().previousTrack(),
   skip: (time) => controllers.playback().skip(time),
   skipTo: (time) => controllers.playback().skipTo(time),
+  preview: (x) => controllers.playback().preview(x),
+  clearPreview: () => controllers.playback().clearPreview(),
   changePlaybackRate: (dir) => controllers.playback().changePlaybackRate(dir),
   changeVolume: (delta) => controllers.playback().changeVolume(delta),
   setVolume: (vol) => controllers.playback().setVolume(vol),
diff --git a/src/renderer/pages/player-page.js b/src/renderer/pages/player-page.js
index a9a66695..1d40385f 100644
--- a/src/renderer/pages/player-page.js
+++ b/src/renderer/pages/player-page.js
@@ -536,6 +536,8 @@ function renderPlayerControls (state) {
   const nextClass = Playlist.hasNext(state) ? '' : 'disabled'
 
   const elements = [
+    renderPreview(state),
+
     <div key='playback-bar' className='playback-bar'>
       {renderLoadingBar(state)}
       <div
@@ -547,6 +549,8 @@ function renderPlayerControls (state) {
         key='scrub-bar'
         className='scrub-bar'
         draggable
+        onMouseMove={handleScrubPreview}
+        onMouseOut={clearPreview}
         onDragStart={handleDragStart}
         onClick={handleScrub}
         onDrag={handleScrub}
@@ -722,6 +726,19 @@ function renderPlayerControls (state) {
     }
   }
 
+  // Handles a scrub hover (preview another position in the video)
+  function handleScrubPreview (e) {
+    // Only show for videos
+    if (!e.clientX || state.playing.type !== 'video') return
+    dispatch('mediaMouseMoved')
+    dispatch('preview', e.clientX)
+  }
+
+  function clearPreview (e) {
+    if (state.playing.type !== 'video') return
+    dispatch('clearPreview')
+  }
+
   // Handles a click or drag to scrub (jump to another position in the video)
   function handleScrub (e) {
     if (!e.clientX) return
@@ -760,6 +777,56 @@ function renderPlayerControls (state) {
   }
 }
 
+function renderPreview (state) {
+  const { previewXCoord = null } = state.playing
+
+  // Calculate time from x-coord as fraction of track width
+  const windowWidth = document.querySelector('body').clientWidth
+  const fraction = previewXCoord / windowWidth
+  const time = fraction * state.playing.duration /* seconds */
+
+  const height = 70
+  let width = 0
+
+  const previewEl = document.querySelector('video#preview')
+  if (previewEl !== null && previewXCoord !== null) {
+    previewEl.currentTime = time
+
+    // Auto adjust width to maintain video aspect ratio
+    width = Math.floor((previewEl.videoWidth / previewEl.videoHeight) * height)
+  }
+
+  // Center preview window on mouse cursor,
+  // while avoiding falling off the left or right edges
+  const xPos = Math.min(Math.max(previewXCoord - (width / 2), 5), windowWidth - width - 5)
+
+  return (
+    <div
+      key='preview' style={{
+        position: 'absolute',
+        bottom: 50,
+        left: xPos,
+        display: previewXCoord == null && 'none' // Hide preview when XCoord unset
+      }}
+    >
+      <div style={{ width, height, backgroundColor: 'black' }}>
+        <video
+          src={Playlist.getCurrentLocalURL(state)}
+          id='preview'
+          style={{ border: '1px solid lightgrey', borderRadius: 2 }}
+        />
+      </div>
+      <p
+        style={{
+          textAlign: 'center', margin: 5, textShadow: '0 0 2px rgba(0,0,0,.5)', color: '#eee'
+        }}
+      >
+        {formatTime(time, state.playing.duration)}
+      </p>
+    </div>
+  )
+}
+
 // Renders the loading bar. Shows which parts of the torrent are loaded, which
 // can be 'spongey' / non-contiguous
 function renderLoadingBar (state) {