Is this feature similar to an AVR’s DRC mode? And would it be possible to have to option to turn it on and off during video playback?

Title says it all, I submitted a report via the app yesterday.

He cogido la suscripción anual con el precio de early adopter . Cuando entre la app en su fase operativa completa y suban los precios , yo mantendré mi precio siempre que renueve ?

I don't get it, does it play DV7 FEL or not? I doubt...
This is what I get when trying to play a bluray remux that has DV 7 FEL. Actually all remuxes I have tried show this when playing.

Hey, Native Player devs! Thanks for creating such an amazing app and saving me $200 since I no longer wanna get a shield. I loved the app so much that I got the yearly subscription for the app and was really satisfied with it. I recently learned that the app will be leaving its "early adoption" pricing and I wanted to snag the discounted price before it was too late but cannot find the option for the one-time purchase after cancelling my yearly subscription. I'm sure I'm not the only person who'd want to do this and was wondering if there's a way to do get that one-time purchase option back? Again, thanks so much for an amazing app and giving us the most out of our home theatre setups.

P.S. I'm really excited for the Plex integration

i just learned about this app today and bought a lifetime membership after testing it out.

It‘s incredible thus far and I’m excited to see what the future brings in upcoming releases.

With that said, it would be great to build a community and converse in real-time about our experiences and thoughts about our media and the Native Player app itself.

Unfortunately, I am not well versed in creating Discord servers/communities so I was wondering if the developers or someone from the Reddit community would want to create this.

I have been using Native Payer with Plezy. It works great for my movies and the new update 2 seems to fill the final holes for audio and dv 7. Problem is you cannot play your tv recordings so you need to use the Plezy player for that and native player for movies. Be nice if native player didn’t have this limitation. I still bought the earlier adopters license. Nothing better for movies exists and this seems like it should be easy to fix since every other player can play this.

Loving the player, finally to have Atmos working through AppleTV is a game changer. Awesome stuff chaps!

Is there a chance that BDMV and ISO files will be supported in a future build? I have a large collection of these which Infuse can handle, but would love support in NativePlayer to really unleash their contents. Here's hoping 🤞🏻

Hey I subscribed the pro yearly subscription, and I enjoy the app mainly because of the trueHD atmos support.
The only problem is that I’m experiencing some buffering from time to time, every time I try to scrub or I pause the movie. It works a little bit better when playing the movie from the URL, but when using as an external player (from Strimr), it buffers a lot and sometimes it is unplayable.
The internet speed or connection is not the problem, as I play the same files in other video players and they play just fine with no buffering, also the internet speed is 1GB/s.
I’m playing it on a Apple TV 4K 3rd gen, tvOS 27.
The movies I tried were all remux versions of Nope, Unbroken and Ready player one.
Hope you can help.
Looking forward to the jellyfin implementation.
Great work!

This error is common when connecting a self hosted server, but clients like browsers normally have an option to ignore it and connect anyway. Native Player 1.2 doesn't seem to allow this, or am I missing something?

I'm using a Synology DS1618+ on HTTPS-only webdav, 3rd gen ATV 4K on tvOS 27.

I'm not using a DDNS address, just an IPv4 address within the LAN.

The full visible error (it's truncated) is:

Could not reach the server. The certificate for the server is invalid. You might be connecting to a server that is pretending to be "[server's IP]" which could...

As an aside, one pet peeve of mine is when there's no way to expand and see the full truncated text, especially when it's an error message, maybe this can be fixed too?

Hello,

First and foremost, massive thanks for this huge work! So happy that there is finally a way to get high channels on APTV.

just tried to add my smb, but I am always getting the tollowing message « A TLS error caused the secure connection to fail». I tried with IP adress directly, and .local, but both give the same result.

My smb was already on before I tried on Native Player, and it is still working on Infuse. Any idea how to solve that?

For sure I am going buy the licence as soon as I can try it.

PS: I post it again but deleted for no reason...

Is this the correct settings for Apple TV?
I tested it and when I turn Atmos off, DTSX height channels are not playing from ceiling speaker (I have 7.2.4 layout). When I turn Atmos on, height channels in DTSX play correctly, but the display on my receiver shows Dolby Atmos, no matter what signal it is… or am I missing something? Can native player behave like my Nvidia Shield Pro when my AVR always displays correct codec on the display?

Sorry for the delay, guys! Apple took almost 5 days to review our app.

New in 1.2

• WebDAV servers - add your NAS or cloud storage in the new Servers tab, browse folders and play files directly
• Blu-ray PGS subtitles - image-based subtitles from Blu-ray discs now appear in the subtitle picker, converted to text on the device
• Fixed playback with subtitles - embedded subtitles no longer slow down large files: seeking is faster and every subtitle language is available instantly
• Improved multichannel audio handling for HomePod and other AirPlay speakers
• A clearer loading screen when a movie starts, including when another app opens it
• Bug fixes and performance improvements

In progress

• Plex
• Jellyfin
• SMB

Native Player Pro

As announced, we are introducing paid pro version. Pro exists for one reason: to fund development. Plex, Jellyfin and SMB are the next big pieces of work and this is what keeps them moving.

Titles with Dolby Vision Profile 7, TrueHD Dolby Atmos or DTS:X play a free preview and Pro unlocks them in full. It’s $5/year or $25 lifetime in the US (the App Store sets the equivalent price for other countries).

As always, if something breaks on your setup, post it here and we will look into it.

Find Native Player on App Store

What setting is required to keep you in plezy after exiting a movie, so to not drop back to native player and how do you maintain position/progress of the movie when native player is the external player? Thanks!

Looks like it’s really going the right way.
Fantastic we can add WebDAV and works well. Needs cloud services and metadata support perhaps?

But the big one for me is allowing HomePod Atmos, especially with the new surround Atmos feature coming with 4x HomePods. Be fantastic for my remux DTS-X encodings to get Atmos effect on my HomePods. It also seems to buffer with the HomePods attached more and not the tv on its own?

Anyway. You have worked very hard and it’s showing and I’d happily pay the license for a lifetime if the HomePods can be worked out please.
Thanks.

Really interesting app! I have integrated it as an external player into my own app (a purely private project), and so far it works quite well. I now have four different players linked in my app: Infuse, Oppo Player via a Play-to-DLNA command, Native Player, and Apple’s own player engine for compatible MP4 files.

From a technical standpoint, everything in Native Player seems to work as advertised. However, im sometimes still experiencing buffering issues, even with the latest version.

There is also something I can't quite figure out. I use my AirPods Max a lot for watching movies, and regardless of whether I’m playing Atmos audio or regular multichannel audio tracks, the sound is noticeably different (worse) when using Native Player.

The center channel often sounds kinda more echoey, and the bass seems noticeably reduced as well.

Any idea what could be causing this?

Only had a few minutes but tested a few TrueHD movies. Largest was about 40GB.
All played well. My Denon reported either Atmos or PCM for input.
Lip sync and all appeared good even with slipping forward & back or jumping chapters.
I did have 1 MKV that gave an error playing. AV1 video with TrueHD audio. I clicked on the button to submit it for review.
This file plays fine in Infuse & Plezy with the native players, but obviously all height info is lost.

Thanks again for this effort.
As others have said, concentrate on the player first. Plex & other integration later. External player works fine for now.

Let us know when we can contribute $$$ to the cause!

Native Player can be used as an external player. Keep browsing in the app you're used to (Plex/Jellyfin/Emby clients, Stremio-addon apps …) and hand playback over to Native Player, so you get:

- Dolby Vision Profile 7
- TrueHD Atmos
- DTS:X

Apps support this in one of two ways:

• Native Player built in: Some apps already list Native Player as an external player option. Just select it in the app's settings.

• Custom player: Some apps let you add your own external player (often called a "custom player" or "custom URL scheme"). You add Native Player there yourself. The list below shows what to enter.

📋Apps that can open videos in Native Player (tvOS)

The list isn't complete. There are probably more apps with a custom player option where Native Player works too. If you find one, please share it in the comments so we can add it.

Your app doesn't support it?

Ask the developer to add Native Player as an external player and send them the developer doc below. If the app already supports Infuse, it's a very small change: Native Player's x-callback-url works the same way as Infuse's, with the same parameters and the same progress sent back. Details below:

⚙️ Native Player deep link integration

Featured inside Native Player

Every app that fully supports Native Player with x-callback-url so watch progress syncs back to the app, will be featured inside Native Player in the next version, coming soon.

Comment here to help us keeping this list fresh.

• Faster, smoother URL streaming: rebuilt buffering engine with quick seeking and lower CPU and memory use.

• Fixed slight audio/video sync drift on Atmos tracks after seeking.

• Audio picker now shows track titles from the file.

• Stability and diagnostics improvements.

I would like the ability to add a WebDAV source like torbox.app and just browse the media files within Native Player and hit play on the files..

Copying the url from such a streaming service obviously breaks because their download urls are temporary..

If there is a better way to use NativePlayer for this use case, I'd be happy to hear..

How does the application handle dual-layer Dolby Vision profile 7 MKV files? What is the appearance of the output relative to the original source?

The top image is Native Player launched by Plezy the bottom is Infuse. Native Player has the additional Atmos playback on Apple TV (amazing) but is missing the extra audio description data to help users find things like director commentary.. One Blu-ray rip I have has two different mixes (Pulp Fiction) without pulling over this description data, it makes it very difficult to determine which is which… Keep up the great work!

Just to say I’ve downloaded the app and it runs nicely with most files I’ve thrown its way. Including transcoding DTS-X to Atmos.
Sometimes however with big files if you skip it just gives up, especially 4K Remuxes.
But a few questions, do you intend to allow for cloud storage like google drive/outlook/mega?
And WebDAV support also?

And how does it work with HomePods? Infuse seems to work well with HomePods and their capabilities. The app doesn’t find them as Atmos compatible and I know infuse said it had to have a specific code added so they work properly.
Also if you could get iCloud Drive files to play that would be awesome.
I am excited by this app though as it really could be something very special on Apple TV