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AetherPlayer

Native media player for macOS and iOS/iPadOS on AetherEngine (FFmpeg). Plays almost any video or audio file, disc image or stream URL, with Dolby Vision and HDR, lossless height channels from TrueHD and DTS:X, Dolby…

  • Completely free
  • macOS and iOS
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

AetherPlayer is a media player, available on macOS and iOS.

Features described in its GitHub repository and on its official website: subtitles.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “A native media player for Mac, iPhone and iPad, built on AetherEngine.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Open a video or audio file, a disc image or a stream URL and it plays, with Dolby Vision and HDR, lossless height channels from TrueHD and DTS:X, every audio and subtitle track, and live thumbnail previews on the…” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of AetherPlayer is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (LGPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Unspecified source (platforms) —
  • Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 9 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub superuser404notfound/AetherPlayer (LGPL-3.0-only)

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