Play Blu-ray and DVD ISO files on Android TV

Yonto Player plays a Blu-ray or DVD disc image, an .iso file, on Android TV and Google TV, and on Android phones and tablets, with no Kodi and no add-on to set up. It plays the disc’s main film straight from a share on your NAS, with nothing to mount or copy first, and resumes it like any other video. It is in the free app from 5.4.0, and no format is behind Pro; the disc’s menus are not shown (what plays).

This page is about playing disc images you already have. Yonto Player provides no content.

Where the disc image can be

Add the place your disc images are kept as a source, under Add source:

SMB, for a NAS or a computer that shares a folder over SMB.
WebDAV, for a NAS or a server that shares a folder over WebDAV.
Folder on this device, on a phone or tablet, for a folder you pick there.

These sources list files ending in iso beside your other videos, and a disc image plays from where it is, with nothing to mount or copy to the device first. Play video files from a NAS or USB drive on Android TV walks through adding a share.

On a television, a USB drive or the box’s own storage chosen under Storage lists only what Android counts as videos, and a disc image is not one, so keep your disc images on a share.

For a disc image in a Jellyfin, Plex or Emby library, add the folder it is in as an SMB or WebDAV source too, and play it from there. Free has one source of your own, so that second source needs Pro or, on Android, its 7-day trial.

What plays

The main film. Yonto Player plays the disc’s longest title, which is the film on most discs, from its start.
No menus. The disc’s menus are never shown, so its extras and other titles cannot be chosen.
Like any other video. It plays, pauses, seeks and resumes, with the film’s own length, and is kept in History and Continue playing.
In your library. A files source groups it under Films by its file name, as it does any other video.

It plays in Yonto Player’s second player, which is picked for you, with nothing to switch. On a phone or tablet, the second player shrinks into picture-in-picture where the device supports it.

What does not play

A disc still under its copy protection: AACS or BD+ on a Blu-ray, CSS on a DVD; Yonto Player does not undo copy protection.
A DVD that weaves its film together with another cut or with other camera angles (seamless branching or multi-angle scenes).
An image with no film on it, such as a data disc’s.

Any of these shows “This device couldn’t play this video. (code)” under “Playback failed”. Troubleshooting lists every message the app shows.

A disc kept as a folder (BDMV or VIDEO_TS) rather than as one .iso file is not played as a disc. The video files inside a BDMV folder show as separate videos, and the files in a VIDEO_TS folder are not listed.

4K Ultra HD Blu-ray images

A 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray image goes to the same second player, under the same rules: one still under its copy protection does not play. On Android, the second player shows an HDR picture toned down to SDR, not as HDR, and a Dolby Vision picture as its HDR10 layer (Video format support has the table).

What it does not do yet

On Android, the second player lists the subtitles inside a file but does not show them yet.
A disc image does not cast to a Chromecast, an AirPlay screen or a DLNA TV yet.
Disc menus and BD-J are not supported, and are not planned for now.

If you use Kodi for disc menus, keep it for those. A simpler Kodi alternative for Android TV says what else Kodi does that Yonto Player does not, and Video formats lists every other file it plays.

Yonto Player provides no content. Blu-ray, Ultra HD Blu-ray, BD+, AACS, DVD, Dolby Vision, Kodi, Android TV, Google TV, Jellyfin, Plex and Emby are trademarks of their owners, and Yonto Player is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.