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Panvox Player

Video player & media library

Panvox is a video player powered by avox, our in-house audio/video engine library. It plays local files as well as NAS/SMB/WebDAV, Jellyfin/Emby and IPTV sources, includes a built-in poster-wall media library, and adds optional AI assistance (subtitles, recognition, tagging, search).

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Playback

Up to 8K, hardware decoded

Common formats play directly, with hardware decoding up to 8K (hardware permitting): MKV, MP4, AVI, HEVC and more, with TrueHD / DTS audio. Hardware decoding is selected automatically on your device.

HDR, applied per frame

4K / HDR10 / HLG play as intended; Dolby Vision (P5 / P8) and HDR10+ dynamic metadata is applied per frame — SDR displays get automatic per-frame tone mapping; HDR displays get automatic HDR output.

Full subtitle rendering

ASS-styled subtitles and PGS bitmap subtitles keep their original styling and positioning; external SRT files load as-is, and garbled text is fixed automatically.

Blu-ray ISO / BDMV

Disc images play directly, with titles listed for selection.

VR video detection

Panoramic and stereoscopic files are identified by the container's stereo/spherical metadata and aspect ratio, and the VR playback mode is ready when one is found.

Precise playback control

0.25–64× speed with custom presets, audio and subtitle track switching, touch gestures, and playback lock.

Library

Built for browsing

Tag tree, category filters, continue watching; full-library search.

Works with Jellyfin and Emby

Browse your library, direct playback, watch progress synced back to your server; Quick Connect sign-in when your server supports it.

All your sources

Local folders, SMB, WebDAV, plus live streams over RTSP / RTMP / HTTP — your server sends the original stream and your device decodes it; fast startup, responsive seeking.

IPTV built in

Import M3U playlists directly — channel groups and favorites, program guide (EPG), quality selection, and built-in demo channels.

Credentials stay on your device

Data goes straight to your own servers.

Optional AI assistance

Subtitles

For videos without them, speech recognition generates subtitles from the audio — Chinese / Cantonese / English / Japanese / Korean, all processed on your device. To translate into one of 14 languages, add your own large-model provider key in settings; without a key you still get the original-language subtitles.

Recognition

Unrecognized items can be batch-matched by AI in one tap — matches identified as film or TV are then completed via TVDB / Bangumi. AI recognition, tagging, and search use the AI key you configure.

Tags

AI tags items based on content and expands the tag tree; tags you add manually are never overwritten.

Search

Describe what you feel like watching in one sentence, and AI finds it in your library.

Interface

Three interface modes

Poster wall / file browser / pure player.

14 languages, light & dark

14 interface languages, following your system language; light and dark themes, plus accent colors.

Four platforms

Windows poster-wall media library
Windows
macOS poster-wall media library
macOS
iOS library
iOS
Android library
Android

Included free

Playback, subtitles, the media library and all AI features are free to use — no ads, no subscription.

Windows · Microsoft Store iOS · App Store

Privacy

  • No account, no analytics, no ads.
  • Speech recognition runs on your device. Online AI features (translation, recognition, tagging, search) send only the relevant content to the provider you configure, and recognition models are downloaded on demand from the official source.

Read the full privacy policy →

AI subtitles and the results of AI recognition, tagging, and search may contain errors, are for reference only, and can be corrected manually. Please play only content you have the legal right to access.

The avox engine is open source: github.com/xxxzhou/avox — a C++ audio/video engine library (capture / GPU pipeline / playback / recording).