AetherEngine brings Apple video playback to AV1 and Dolby Vision

AetherEngine packages many of the hard parts of Apple-platform playback into one open-source engine: codec dispatch, HDR signaling, subtitle decode, and Atmos passthrough. That matters for teams building TV and media apps because the library exposes a single player surface while switching between AVPlayer and a software decode path behind the scenes. The broader signal is that the project is formalizing reproducible workflows too, with aetherctl probe, validate, swdecode, and extract for source-level diagnostics. The next concrete marker to watch is whether the repository’s 2.1.1 release and CLI workflows keep expanding in step with its codec and HDR support.