# AetherPlayer: Media Player — Play any video or audio file

> Play any video or audio file (iPhone/iPad app by Vincent Herbst.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/aetherplayer-media-player/id6789923533 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Vincent Herbst](https://appshunter.io/developer/1894754067)
- Category: Entertainment
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 34 MB
- Languages: American English, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French (France), German (Germany), Greek, Hungarian and 15 more
- Released: 2026-11-02
- Data updated: 2026-11-04

## What is AetherPlayer?

AetherPlayer is a native media player for iPhone and iPad, built on AetherEngine, an FFmpeg-backed engine. A wide range of containers and codecs play directly, with no conversion step.

Open a file from the Files app or the share sheet, or paste a URL, live streams included, and it plays full screen in a clean, custom player.

Features
- Plays MKV, MP4, AVI, WMV, transport streams and more, with HEVC, H.264, AV1, VP9 and VC-1, in hardware or software
- Dolby Vision, HDR10, HDR10+ and HLG on an HDR screen
- Lossless height channels from TrueHD and DTS:X: rendered on the device into a 9.1.6 mix, as Spatial Audio on AirPods or over HDMI (iOS 26)
- Choose how multichannel audio is delivered: Dolby Digital Plus or lossless FLAC
- Switch audio and subtitle tracks, load an .srt file, style text subtitles, and see ASS/SSA subtitles with their own fonts and placement
- DVD and Blu-ray ISO images
- Scrub the timeline with a live thumbnail preview
- Live streams with a window to scrub back in
- Picture in Picture, AirPlay and lock-screen playback controls
- Swipe the screen edges for brightness and volume
- Lip-sync correction for Bluetooth headphones
- Resume where you left off, with a recents list
- Universal app for iPhone and iPad, in 26 languages

No account, no media server, no tracking. Open a file and play it.

## Is AetherPlayer safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess AetherPlayer.

## Is AetherPlayer legit?

AetherPlayer: Media Player has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for AetherPlayer is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0.0 — 2026-11-02

No release notes.

## More apps by Vincent Herbst

- [Sodalite](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sodalite/id6764418563)

All apps by Vincent Herbst: https://appshunter.io/developer/1894754067

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