The media bindings where fragile because the "prevent rerun if update in progress"-logic was flawed: It didn't (re)set the `updating` flag correctly, because it assumed an event and a render effect would always directly follow each other, with one always being first - but that's not true.
It's much more robust to instead compare the value with what's currently present in the DOM. For the very fast-firing current-time-binding a variable is used to not invoke the DOM getter as much, for the others this is not necessary.
Lastly, the playback-rate-binding contained another bug where the listener was setup inside the effect and therefore reinitialized on each binding change - it needs to move into a different effect.
Simon H