ZeoPlayer vs Photon Player

ZeoPlayer is a modern, minimal, and powerful media player built natively for the Apple ecosystem (iOS, iPadOS, macOS, visionOS, tvOS). Powered by AetherEngine with VideoToolbox hardware acceleration and FFmpeg, it delivers a cinema-grade audiovisual experience. Key Features: • Cinema-Grade Picture Quality: Native advanced dynamic HDR (HDR10 / HDR10+ / HLG) rendering, and 10-bit color depth support. • Universal Codec & Container Support: Hardware and software decoding for HEVC/H.265, H.264, AV1, VP9 across MKV, MP4, M2TS/TS, AVI, MOV, WMV, FLV, WebM, and M3U8 (HLS). • Immersive Audio Decoding: Full support for immersive multi-channel audio, TrueHD, E-AC3, DTS-HD, FLAC lossless audio, and multi-channel pass-through/output. • Liquid Glass Design: Beautiful frosted glass material and dark mode-first interface for immersive viewing. • Network & SMB Streaming: Play online HTTP/HTTPS video streams, M3U8 live channels, and network shares via SMB protocol. • Subtitles & Audio Tracks: Automatic detection of embedded subtitles/tracks and support for external SRT/ASS files with sync adjustment. • Deep System Integration: macOS menu bar & hotkeys, iOS gesture controls for volume/brightness, Picture-in-Picture, and SwiftData history sync.

Photon is a native player for the library you already own. Connect your media servers, your cloud and network storage, and your Live TV subscription, and everything you can watch appears in one place — on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Mac, from a single purchase. YOUR OWN LIBRARY, TOGETHER • Works with Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, Photon and Silo • Connect a server free, or as many as you like with Pro. Home and Search bring them all together; the Library tab keeps each source's own shelves separate, so you can still ask what is on one server. • Play straight from an SMB, NFS, FTP or WebDAV share, a UPnP server on your network with no media server at all • Live TV from an Xtream Codes subscription, M3U: a full programme guide, favourites, and a channel list built for thousands of channels • Open a video from Files or the Finder and it becomes a title like any other — with a resume point, artwork and a name you can match against your servers AS IT WAS MADE • Dolby Vision and HDR, with AVPlayer driving the display for real HDR output • MKV and 4K play as they are. Nothing is quietly downscaled or re-encoded behind your back. • Subtitles drawn as overlays, never burned into the picture • Standing choices for audio language, subtitle language, and when subtitles should come on at all • Skip intros and credits, and go straight into the next episode EVERYWHERE YOU WATCH • Download for offline with Pro. Transfers carry on while you are elsewhere, with a Live Activity on the Lock Screen and a notice when a title lands. • Handoff picks a film up on the next device at the frame you left it • Spotlight opens a title directly • Top Shelf on Apple TV, a real menu bar on the Mac, and one design across all four platforms BUILT FOR THE PLATFORM Written in SwiftUI for iOS, tvOS, macOS and visionOS, with full Dynamic Type, VoiceOver labels on every control, and Reduce Motion respected throughout. There is no account to create and no service of ours in the path: Photon talks to your servers and to your own iCloud, and to nothing else. PHOTON PRO The free app is the whole player: one media server and one Live TV subscription, every drive and network share, and every format — 4K, MKV, Dolby Vision, TrueHD and DTS — with browsing, search, Handoff and SharePlay, no advertising and nothing to sign up for. Pro adds: • Every source at once: as many servers and Live TV subscriptions as you like, together in Home and Search • Downloads, for watching offline • AirPlay to an Apple TV or any AirPlay screen • Your servers, settings and the way you have arranged Home, on every device you sign in on Available monthly, yearly, or as a one-off Lifetime purchase, with a free week on either subscription. One purchase covers iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Mac. Photon plays the media you already have on servers and storage you control. It is an independent client and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Jellyfin, Emby or Plex. Terms of Use (EULA): https://photon.oliverwalton.uk/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://photon.oliverwalton.uk/privacy/