diff --git a/lerobot/common/datasets/video_utils.py b/lerobot/common/datasets/video_utils.py
index 8ed3318d..0b67f9e9 100644
--- a/lerobot/common/datasets/video_utils.py
+++ b/lerobot/common/datasets/video_utils.py
@@ -127,6 +127,67 @@ def decode_video_frames_torchvision(
     return closest_frames
 
 
+def decode_video_frames_torchcodec(
+    video_path: Path | str,
+    timestamps: list[float],
+    tolerance_s: float,
+    device: str = "cpu",
+    log_loaded_timestamps: bool = False,
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    """Loads frames associated with the requested timestamps of a video using torchcodec."""
+    video_path = str(video_path)
+    # initialize video decoder
+    from torchcodec.decoders import VideoDecoder
+    decoder = VideoDecoder(video_path, device=device)
+    loaded_frames = []
+    loaded_ts = []
+    # get metadata for frame information
+    metadata = decoder.metadata
+    average_fps = metadata.average_fps
+    
+    # convert timestamps to frame indices
+    frame_indices = [int(ts * average_fps) for ts in timestamps]
+    
+    # retrieve frames based on indices
+    frames_batch = decoder.get_frames_at(indices=frame_indices)
+    
+    for frame, pts in zip(frames_batch.data, frames_batch.pts_seconds):
+        loaded_frames.append(frame)
+        loaded_ts.append(pts.item())
+        if log_loaded_timestamps:
+            logging.info(f"Frame loaded at timestamp={pts:.4f}")
+    
+    query_ts = torch.tensor(timestamps)
+    loaded_ts = torch.tensor(loaded_ts)
+    
+    # compute distances between each query timestamp and loaded timestamps
+    dist = torch.cdist(query_ts[:, None], loaded_ts[:, None], p=1)
+    min_, argmin_ = dist.min(1)
+    
+    is_within_tol = min_ < tolerance_s
+    assert is_within_tol.all(), (
+        f"One or several query timestamps unexpectedly violate the tolerance ({min_[~is_within_tol]} > {tolerance_s=})."
+        "It means that the closest frame that can be loaded from the video is too far away in time."
+        "This might be due to synchronization issues with timestamps during data collection."
+        "To be safe, we advise to ignore this item during training."
+        f"\nqueried timestamps: {query_ts}"
+        f"\nloaded timestamps: {loaded_ts}"
+        f"\nvideo: {video_path}"
+    )
+    
+    # get closest frames to the query timestamps
+    closest_frames = torch.stack([loaded_frames[idx] for idx in argmin_])
+    closest_ts = loaded_ts[argmin_]
+    
+    if log_loaded_timestamps:
+        logging.info(f"{closest_ts=}")
+    
+    # convert to float32 in [0,1] range (channel first)
+    closest_frames = closest_frames.type(torch.float32) / 255
+    
+    assert len(timestamps) == len(closest_frames)
+    return closest_frames
+
 def encode_video_frames(
     imgs_dir: Path | str,
     video_path: Path | str,