Stoic — HDR video player for Mac: The Mac video player that gets HDR and Dolby Vision right

Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Neil, and I built Stoic because I kept watching films on a great Mac display with the wrong colours. Most players quietly guess: they ignore a file's colour tags, squash HDR highlights, or play Dolby Vision Profile 5 with a green-and-purple cast. Stoic reads what the file actually says, maps HDR to the headroom of the display it's on (and re-checks when you drag the window to another screen), and tells you plainly when a file is missing information instead of hiding a guess. It's also light: on a 4K Dolby Vision file it used 56× less CPU than VLC on my M1 Pro (full test setup on stoicplayer.com/benchmarks). Beyond the picture: dual subtitles, on-device transcription you can search, A–B loops and saved moments for reviewing a shot, private folders behind Touch ID, and a library that never uploads anything. It's a one-time purchase (no subscription) that works on 3 Macs. I'd love your feedback, especially on files that don't look right. That's exactly what I want to fix next.

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3d ago

Mac users: What video player do you actually use, and what’s still missing?

I m curious what people actually use for local video playback on macOS these days.

VLC, IINA, Infuse, QuickTime, something else?

Also curious what you mostly watch: movies/TV, anime, downloaded content, high-bitrate 4K/HDR, lectures, etc.

What s one thing you wish your current player did better?

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