Vunio
A native player for NAS libraries and stubborn video files
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Vunio is a native macOS and iPhone video player for the files other players tend to give up on. It opens MKV and other tricky formats, browses SMB, NFS, SFTP, FTP and WebDAV shares without mounting them, and matches subtitles to the video itself. The public beta is especially focused on subtitle rendering, Simplified Chinese and ASS/SSA support, and remembering downloaded subtitles when you reopen a film.
PH · launched Sep 14, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 2 views
Niche: video players and display software · 91 launches, 7 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Video
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More like this: all 91 launches in video players and display software →
Could you build this?
No Building a performant native media player supporting dozens of container codecs, HDR/Dolby Vision passthrough, and custom network protocol clients (SMB/NFS/SFTP) without OS-level mounting requires deep systems and low-level video engineering.
What it would actually take: The app embeds libVLC or FFmpeg and libass in a Swift/C++ bridge, combined with pure-userspace network filesystem clients for SMB2/3, NFS, and SFTP. It requires native video rendering pipelines (Metal, VideoToolbox), custom bitstream demuxers, audio passthrough engines for TrueHD/DTS, and binary hashing algorithms for subtitle APIs, demanding extensive expertise in C/C++, AV pipelines, and network file protocols.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 108 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #78 of 109 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 127 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Olo Player · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- SwiftPlayer · github · 2026-09-12 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- KakaPlayer — Ace Stream on a Mac · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- NovaTV Worldwide · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- KRALMOVIE · github · 2026-10-31 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Bref · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Virelo · ph · 2026-11-04 · 64 upvotes · similarity 0.37
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