Video player engine for iOS, tvOS and macOS. FFmpeg demux, VideoToolbox / dav1d / libavcodec decode (HEVC, H.264, AV1, VP9, VP8, MPEG-4 Part 2, MPEG-2, VC-1), Dolby Atmos passthrough, HDR10 / HDR10+ / Dolby Vision / HLG with HDR→SDR tonemap, inline text + bitmap subtitle decode. You ship the UI.
active 2026-04-16 → 2026-08-09 (UTC)
Activity over time
Daily event counts in the loaded window
Line chart, 116 days from 2026-04-16 to 2026-08-09. Pushes: 410 total, peak 18 in a day. Pull requests: 4 total, peak 2 in a day. Issues: 5 total, peak 1 in a day. Comments: 32 total, peak 10 in a day. Stars: 6 total, peak 1 in a day.
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Stars, PRs, issues and forks are under-captured in the later part of this window. GH Archive progressively stopped capturing non-push events during 2026 — −95% or worse by the end of the window. Every series here except Pushes fades for that reason, so a decline above reflects the archive, not this repository. Pushes stay reliable throughout, so read them, and the contributor counts derived from them, as the real signal. Data health has the measurements.
Top contributors
Pushes, PRs, issues, reviews and comments — stars and forks excluded, so this is contribution rather than popularity
| Contributor | Contributions | Pushes | PRs | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| superuser404notfound | 430 | 410 | 2 | 15 |
| DrHurt | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| ZeroQ-bit | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Delarkz | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| reckloon | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| strangeliu | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| rrgomes | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ohjey | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Recent activity
Latest issues, pull requests and releases
- Issue#207superuser404notfound2026-08-08 07:29Forward-buffer window: 150-segment ceiling silently caps an "unbounded pre-buffer" host option (#102 follow-up)
- Releasesuperuser404notfound2026-08-08 06:166.15.2 - A live reader that stops fighting its own backpressure
- Issue comment#309superuser404notfound2026-08-07 16:43A connection that dies silently while reads are satisfied from the window defers stall detection indefinitely (observed: 4.5 minutes) — the stall watchdog only ticks inside a waiting read()
- Issue comment#316superuser404notfound2026-08-07 16:33nativeRemoteHLS: external subtitles can never become renditions (load-time dropped, post-load overlay-only)
- Pull request#330superuser404notfound2026-08-07 16:30
- Pull request#262superuser404notfound2026-07-30 17:43
- Releasesuperuser404notfound2026-07-28 08:105.24.0 - Bounded range requests
- Issue comment#98superuser404notfound2026-07-05 07:34Unify handling of dynamic range checks
- Issue comment#83DrHurt2026-06-27 04:50Make VOD preferredForwardBufferDuration bitrate-adaptive (4 s floor thin for ~100 Mbps sources)
- Issue comment#65superuser404notfound2026-06-27 03:58Presented frame drifts ~6 s ahead of currentTime/sourceTime after a rapid bidirectional seek burst (loopback-HLS native path) — frameAhead/producerShift/hostShift all report 0
- Issue#74reckloon2026-06-27 01:23HLSSegmentProducer preserves a bogus audio start offset on a track with an unset timescale → constant ~1s audio lag (native loopback-HLS)
- Issue comment#74reckloon2026-06-27 01:23HLSSegmentProducer preserves a bogus audio start offset on a track with an unset timescale → constant ~1s audio lag (native loopback-HLS)
- Issue#54superuser404notfound2026-06-21 05:11Support buffered position or progress
- Releasesuperuser404notfound2026-06-16 21:31AetherEngine 3.6.1
- Issue#37rrgomes2026-06-16 05:39Seek on the loopback-HLS native path resolves clock + state before the seek lands → reported time bounces back through the pre-seek position
- Issue comment#31superuser404notfound2026-06-10 15:22Buffering causes the application to crash when handling large files
- Issue comment#25ohjey2026-06-06 08:11Direct URL playback unreliable — pipeline too fragile for CDN-hosted files
- Releasesuperuser404notfound2026-05-31 07:56AetherEngine 2.1.0
- Issue comment#20DrHurt2026-05-30 09:37DV P5 colr override hardcodes limited range — make it fill-the-gap only
- Issue comment#19strangeliu2026-05-28 09:00Videos with Dolby Profile 5 in MP4 container cannot be played using native player (avplayer hls).
- Issue comment#19strangeliu2026-05-28 07:01Videos with Dolby Profile 5 in MP4 container cannot be played using native player (avplayer hls).
- Issue comment#4superuser404notfound2026-05-26 10:54Codec profile optimisation for Aether (AVPlayer)
- Issue comment#4DrHurt2026-05-26 07:59Codec profile optimisation for Aether (AVPlayer)
- Issue comment#4DrHurt2026-05-24 22:47Codec profile optimisation for Aether (AVPlayer)
- Issue comment#4DrHurt2026-05-24 19:29Codec profile optimisation for Aether (AVPlayer)
Totals cover only the window loaded into ClickHouse and count events, not GitHub's lifetime totals — 6 stars here means stars gained during the window, not the repo's star count.