Dolby optiview player
iOS / tvOS SDK
Experience seamless video experiences across iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV devices. The Dolby OptiView player (formerly known as THEOplayer) iOS / tvOS SDK delivers high-quality playback and smooth performance, ensuring a superior viewing experience.

Dolby iOS / tvOS SDK vs. open-source
Accelerate your time-to-market and reduce maintenance efforts with the iOS / tvOS SDK, offering a superior alternative to AVPlayer.
✔ Bi-weekly releases to quickly adopt new platforms and features
✔ Extensive automated testing to ensure seamless functionality
✔ Comprehensive set of React Native and Flutter bridges
✔ Open-source connectors for DRM, advertising and analytics solutions
✔ Support from dedicated in-house video experts
Extensive features
Readily available features to optimize your viewer experience and maximize overall reach.

Offline playback
Allow your viewers to download protected and unprotected stream content for offline viewing.

Picture-in-Picture
Let your viewers continue watching the video, even when they scroll down on the webpage.

Subtitles and Captions
Enable embedded or side-loaded captions to ensure accessibility and customize the viewing experience for all users.

Casting
Offer your viewers the option to cast content to larger screens using Chromecast or AirPlay, enhancing their viewing experience.
We make developers’ lives easy
The SDK is available through NPM, making it easily accessible for developers. Comprehensive documentation, including detailed getting started guides and user manuals, ensures a smooth developer process. The SDK also has extensive API references for developers, open-source connectors on GitHub, and a reference app.
Connected to ecosystem partners

Advertising
Integrate pre-roll, mid-roll, and post-roll ads with CSAI and SSAI solutions like AWS MediaTailor, Google IMA, Google DAI, Freewheel, SpotX and Yospace. Our SDK supports Dolby’s SGAI advertising solution.

DRM
Protect your streaming content and prevent unauthorized access with open-source connectors for DRM solutions such as BuyDRM, DRMtoday, EZDRM, Irdeto, and Verimatrix.

Analytics
Monitor key playback and ad analytics metrics and make data-driven decisions with open-source connectors for industry-leading analytics solutions like Agama, Conviva, Mediamelon, MOAT, and Youbora (NPAW).
We knew Dolby OptiView Player (formerly known as THEOplayer) was the right solution when we analyzed the benchmarking results. Dolby OptiView Player performs much better than our then-existing video player.

Digital Product Manager
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