Weave Player capabilities
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Publisher: Epiphani Studios LLC
Runs on: Macs with macOS 15 or later, iPhone and iPad with iOS 17 or later, and Apple TV with tvOS 17 or later
Price: Weave Player, $34.99 one-time, United States dollars, covering Weave Player,
       Weave FM, and Weave Radio for one household and every Apple device it owns (Mac,
       iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV). Bought once, yours to keep.

Setup
1. Point it at your folders: Weave Player indexes the movies, shows, and music already on your Mac. It reads what is there and leaves the files exactly where they are.
2. It becomes the house server: The same app serves that library over your own network. Bonjour finds it, so a device on your own Wi‑Fi just discovers it, with no address to type and no port to forward.
3. Open it on any screen: The Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV apps all show the same library and pick up where you left off. Every Mac in the family appears as one shelf, with each title showing whose library it came from.

Capabilities
- Plays what you have: libmpv on FFmpeg, decoding in hardware through VideoToolbox. The original bytes stream straight to the device that is playing them, so the original file is what plays, at its full quality.
- Double-click to play: Double-click a film and it opens in its own Weave Player window, first frame in about eight tenths of a second on a MacBook Pro, with the library left asleep. Weave is listed under Open With.
- Libraries on more than one Mac: Each family member keeps their collection on their own machine, and Weave Player joins them into a single view, marks which library each title came from, and seeks across them.
- Films and music in one app: One index covers video and audio: films, shows, albums, artists, covers, the play queue, and Now Playing.
- Names things correctly: The metadata pass reads TMDB for film and television and MusicBrainz with AcoustID fingerprinting for music, behind a confidence gate, so a title gets its poster once the match clears it.
- Your streaming services: Channels puts the services you already pay for into the same window as isolated tiles, so one app is the place you press play.
- Dropbox as a shelf: A Dropbox folder joins the library as a member alongside your local drives.
- Knows what is coming: A 14-day release strip sits under the shows you follow, with a calendar feed you can subscribe to.
- Built for the family: Kid profiles filter by rating, and everyone keeps their own watch and listen state on a shared library.

Runs on
Macs with macOS 15 or later, iPhone and iPad with iOS 17 or later, and Apple TV with tvOS 17 or later. One app on each device: the Mac indexes and serves the library; the iPhone, iPad, and
Apple TV apps read it. Verify the current Mac version and its minimum macOS: https://updates.belstone.com/weave-player/appcast.json

Formats
Containers: MKV, AVI, MP4, TS, and VOB. Video: H.264, HEVC, VC-1, and AV1. Audio: DTS, TrueHD, FLAC,
ALAC, WAV, AIFF, MP3, AAC, and Opus. Subtitles: tracks inside the file and subtitle files beside it.
Engine: libmpv on FFmpeg, decoding in hardware through VideoToolbox on Apple silicon.

How a film reaches a screen
The Mac serves each file over HTTP with range requests, so any device seeks straight to any point.
Devices on the same network find the Mac through Bonjour. An Epiphani account signs the Apple TV in
with a short device code and keeps each person's place in a film across every device in the house.

On the Mac
Double-click a film and it opens in its own Weave Player window, first frame in about eight tenths of a second on a MacBook Pro, with the library left asleep. Weave is listed under Open With.

Data handling
The media library is indexed where it already sits on the owner's machines and served over the
household's own local network, so playback comes from the copy the household already owns. These
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