Video format support
Yonto Player has two players, and which one plays a file decides what works with it. Your device’s own player comes first, and a second player takes what it cannot read (Video formats Yonto Player plays says how). None of it is behind Pro. The iPhone, iPad and Mac apps are not out yet.
Which player plays a file
Section titled “Which player plays a file”| File | Android TV, phone and tablet | iPhone, iPad and Mac |
|---|---|---|
| MP4, MOV, M4V, WebM, TS | Device’s own player | Device’s own player |
| MKV | Device’s own player | Second player |
| FLV | Device’s own player | Second player |
| AVI, WMV, RMVB, VOB, VC-1 video | Second player | Second player |
| AVS+ video in TS, as Chinese TV channels broadcast it | Second player | Second player |
| Blu-ray image (iso) | Second player, the main film without menus | Second player, the main film without menus |
| DVD image (iso) | Second player, the main film without menus | Second player, the main film without menus |
| A file the device’s own player cannot decode | Second player | Second player |
A Blu-ray under AACS or BD+, a DVD under CSS, and a DVD that weaves several cuts or camera angles of its film together do not play. A Jellyfin, Plex or Emby server converts a file this device cannot play, and the converted video plays in the device’s own player.
What works in each player
Section titled “What works in each player”| Device’s own player | Second player | |
|---|---|---|
| Play, seek and resume | Yes | Yes |
| History and Continue playing | Yes | Yes |
| Picture-in-picture, on an Android phone or tablet, an iPhone or an iPad | Yes | Yes |
| Cast to a Chromecast or an AirPlay screen, from an Android phone or tablet, an iPhone or an iPad | Yes, repackaged or converted when the receiver cannot play it | Yes, repackaged or converted when the receiver cannot play it. A disc image does not cast yet |
| Cast to a DLNA TV, from an Android phone or tablet | Yes | Yes. A disc image does not cast yet |
| Download, on an Android phone or tablet, an iPhone or an iPad | Yes, the file as the source serves it | Yes, the file as the source serves it |
| Switch the audio track | Android, iPhone and iPad: yes. Mac: not while it plays, but it starts in Audio language’s | Yes |
| Subtitles inside the file | Android: yes. iPhone, iPad and Mac: not offered yet | iPhone, iPad and Mac: yes. Android: listed, but not shown yet |
| Subtitle files beside the video (SRT, WebVTT, ASS, SSA) | Android: yes. iPhone, iPad and Mac: such a video plays in the second player, but a Dolby Vision profile 5 MKV, which plays here without them | iPhone, iPad and Mac: yes. Android: listed, but not shown yet |
| HDR10 and HLG | Where your device and screen show them | iPhone and iPad: HDR on a screen that shows it, toned down to fit one that does not. Android: toned down to SDR. Mac: shown as SDR, dim and flat |
| Dolby Vision | Where your device decodes it; otherwise its HDR10 or HLG layer, where it has one. Profile 5, which has none, on Android in SDR where the device has no Dolby Vision decoder | Its HDR10 or HLG layer, shown as the row above says. Profile 5 shows its colours off, and the player says so; it plays here only on an Android device whose graphics chip cannot show it (on an iPhone, iPad or Mac a profile 5 MKV plays in the first player) |
Picture-in-picture is not on Android TV or the Mac, and the Android TV and Mac apps do not cast or download. Downloads need Pro and come from any source whose videos come over the network, as long as it gives the video as one file or as an HLS playlist: a live stream, a DASH video and an HLS video with protected or byte-range pieces do not download (Download to watch offline). A download is the file as the source serves it, so it plays in the same player the file would. How a cast repackages or converts a video is in Cast to a Chromecast, an AirPlay screen or a DLNA TV.
| Sound | Android TV, phone and tablet | iPhone, iPad and Mac |
|---|---|---|
| AAC, MP3, FLAC | Yes | Yes |
| Dolby Digital (AC3) and Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC-3) | Yes, decoded by Yonto Player when the device cannot | Yes |
| DTS, DTS-HD included | Yes, decoded by Yonto Player when the device cannot | Yes, in a file the second player plays, such as every MKV |
| Dolby TrueHD | Yes, decoded by Yonto Player when the device cannot | Not yet: the film plays without sound |
A film with several audio tracks lets you switch while it plays, but not yet in the device’s own player on the Mac, which starts in the language Settings → Player → Audio language names. A cast sends the sound as it is where the receiver plays it, and converts it where it does not (DTS, TrueHD and Dolby audio on Android TV has more on Android’s decoding).
Yonto Player provides no content. Dolby, Dolby Vision, DTS, Chromecast, AirPlay, DLNA, Jellyfin, Plex and Emby are trademarks of their owners, and Yonto Player is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.