Stoic — HDR video player for Mac
The Mac video player that gets HDR and Dolby Vision right
Details
- External ID
- 1262555
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Stoic — HDR video player for Mac
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Mac, Tech, Entertainment
- Fetched at
- Sept. 29, 2026, 1 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 29, 2026, 1 a.m.
Description
Most Mac players guess at colour: they ignore a file's colour tags, flatten HDR highlights and show Dolby Vision with a green or purple cast. Stoic reads what the file says, maps HDR to the headroom of the screen it's on, and tells you when a file is missing what it needs. Plays MKV, HEVC, AV1, Dolby Vision, HDR10+, HLG and 248 file types. Private folders, A–B loop, dual subtitles, on-device transcription. One-time purchase, 3 Macs.
Enrichment
- Theme
- hardware hacking and device utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- hdr and dolby vision video player for mac
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Building a custom video player for macOS that accurately parses Dolby Vision dynamic metadata (RPU), tonemaps HDR across wide color gamuts (Rec.2020), and handles low-level AVFoundation/Metal pipelines requires deep video engineering and color science expertise.
What it would actually take: A real version requires Swift/Objective-C interacting closely with Metal, AVFoundation, and custom video decoders like libavcodec/FFmpeg or mpv internals. The hard part is implementing precise color management, decoding Dolby Vision profiles (Profile 5, 7, 8.4) with proper tone mapping curves (SMPTE ST 2084 / PQ and HLG) to match Mac display EDR headroom. This demands a specialized video systems engineer with deep knowledge of ICC profiles, display hardware pipelines, and HDR colorimetry.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 105 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #27 of 106 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 315 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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