Player settings

Open Settings → Player to set how the player behaves. These are in the free app, and each device keeps its own.

Skip forward and Skip back

Skip forward and Skip back are how far one step goes: 5, 10, 15, 30 or 60 seconds, each set on its own, 10 seconds unless you change them.

On a TV, one press of Left or Right on the remote, or of fast forward and rewind, takes that step. Holding the key still speeds up the longer you hold it.
On a phone or tablet, a double tap on either side of the picture takes that step, and so do the seek buttons where Show seek buttons is on.
The lock screen’s buttons on an iPhone or iPad, and the picture-in-picture window’s on an Android phone, skip the same.

On the Apple TV, the Siri Remote skips as Apple’s own player does, and there is no setting for it. On the Mac, the player’s bar is Apple’s, so Settings → Player has only Skip intro and credits, Resume play, Play the next episode automatically and Always use the second player.

Show seek buttons

On a phone or tablet, an iPhone or an iPad, the row under the progress bar has the previous episode, play or pause and the next episode, as VLC has it. Show seek buttons, off by default, adds skip back and skip forward either side of play and pause, each showing its seconds.

Fill the screen

On a phone or tablet, an iPhone or an iPad, the button at the top of the player switches the picture between fitting inside the screen and filling it, cropped, with no black bars. Fill the screen, off by default, has every video start filled. The button still switches back for that video.

Hold to play faster

On a phone or tablet, an iPhone or an iPad, hold your finger on the picture and it plays faster until you let go, with the speed at the top of the screen. Hold to play faster picks how fast: 1.25×, 1.5× or 2×, which is the default, or Off. It does nothing while the video is paused or loading, or for a live channel.

Resume play

Resume play is where a title you stopped part way through starts the next time you play it, on every device:

Resume, the default, carries on where you stopped.
Ask asks first, showing where you stopped: Resume, Start over, or Cancel to go back.
Start over always plays from the beginning.

A title you watched to the end, or stopped in its first few seconds, always starts from the beginning without asking. On a Plex, Jellyfin or Emby server that converts the video for your device, the conversion starts from the place you chose too.

Picture in picture when leaving the app

On a phone or tablet, an iPhone or an iPad, Picture in picture when leaving the app keeps a video playing in a small window when you go home or switch to another app. It is off by default, so leaving the app stops the video and the Picture in picture button in the player is the way in. Turned on, it goes into the window only while the video is playing: not while it is paused or loading, while the episodes, speed or audio and subtitles list is open, or while the screen is locked.

Play the next episode automatically

On by default: at the end of an episode the player counts down 10 seconds and plays the next one. Turned off, the end still offers the next episode with Play now, and waits for you. The Next episode button over the credits stays either way (Skip intro and credits).

Remember the playback speed

Off by default: the speed you pick in the player lasts until you leave it, so the next episode keeps it, and the next title starts at normal speed. Turned on, the speed you pick carries on to every title, and to the next time the app opens. Turning it on starts you at normal speed until you pick one in the player.

Ask before playing on mobile data

On a phone or tablet, an iPhone or an iPad, Ask before playing on mobile data asks Play on mobile data? before a video streams over mobile data, or any network your device says is metered, with Play and Cancel. It is off by default. It asks once each time a video starts, and never for a download or a file on your device.

Always use the second player

Yonto Player has two players: your device’s own, which it starts in for most videos, and a second one, which plays MKV, AVI and the rest the first can’t, and takes over when the first fails (Video formats). Always use the second player, off by default, starts every video the second player can play in it instead, on every device. Try it when a video plays in the first player with the wrong colours, out of sync or a black picture and nothing switches over. A live channel stays in the first player, and so on Android does a stream in pieces (HLS or DASH) or one whose address doesn’t say what kind of file it is, which still switches over if the first player can’t play it.

Audio and subtitles

Audio language, the video’s own by default, is the language a video starts in when it has audio in it; a video without it plays the audio it starts with.

Subtitle language is the language subtitles are picked in, the app’s own by default, and Subtitles says when they come on:

Automatic, the default, turns them on when the audio isn’t in your subtitle language. When it is, you get only forced subtitles, for signs and lines in another language, or the ones the video or its server turns on itself.
Always turns them on whenever the video has subtitles in your language.
Off starts every video without subtitles, forced ones too.

Simplified and Traditional Chinese are told apart where the file says which; Chinese subtitles that don’t say are picked for either. These settings decide how each video starts, on every app. What you pick under Audio and subtitles in the player is kept for the series or film: resuming it, or playing another of its episodes, starts on your pick wherever the episode has a track in that language, and on these settings where it has none.

Subtitle size draws subtitles smaller or larger than the player’s own size, which is Normal, and Subtitle background puts them on a translucent black Box rather than in an Outline, which reads better over a bright picture. Both apply in every player. On an iPhone or iPad they apply in picture-in-picture and on an AirPlay screen too, but there only to a stream’s WebVTT subtitles: the subtitles inside an MP4 or MOV file keep the device’s caption style. On a Mac or an Apple TV the device’s own player draws them, so they apply to a stream’s WebVTT subtitles alone, and the rest keep the device’s caption style (in Accessibility, under Subtitles and Captioning, or Captions on the Mac). The same file in the second player follows them. Subtitles with styles of their own (ASS and SSA) keep them, and a caption style you turned on in your device’s accessibility settings can still win over these.

Skip intro and credits

Skip intro and credits is on the same page: Skip intro and credits has what it does.