AirPlay that just works
Pick the room's Apple TV from the route button and the video streams natively over HLS — the TV fetches it straight from your Mac. No mirroring, no conversion, no helper downloads.
the soundtrack
Score
An AirPlay-first movie and TV app for the Mac: point it at your folders and they become a screening room — browse like a streaming service, play any video file instantly, and cast it to the living room. Apple TV and iPhone companions keep the couch in control.
Swift
macOS + tvOS + iOS
AirPlay-first
never transcodes video
Movie files pile up the way records used to: rips in MKV, downloads in MP4, camera footage in MOV, scattered across folders and drives. QuickTime opens some of them; the living room sees none of them. Score treats the folders themselves as the library — point it at your collection and it becomes a poster grid in a darkened basement cinema, heavy velvet curtains fading into black under a dim red house light, one click from playing on your Mac or your TV.
The party trick is what Score refuses to do: it never converts video. Files Apple's stack understands play directly; MKVs get their container rewritten in-flight with the video passing through byte-for-byte; and stubborn DTS or TrueHD audio is re-encoded to AAC — the only conversion allowed. That's the whole ladder, so a fanless Mac casts 4K HDR without warming up, playback starts instantly, and when a codec genuinely can't play natively, Score says so in plain words instead of cooking your CPU.
It's built for the moment streams go sideways, too. The Apple TV and iPhone apps browse the Mac over Bonjour and pull the stream themselves, so a dropped session leaves you in the app, one click from Resume — or Resume +10, which skips ten seconds past the scene that tripped the decoder. Your files are only ever read, playlists are just your folders, and every subsystem writes dated, levelled JSON logs tidy enough to hand straight to an AI when something misbehaves.
highlights
never transcodes video
Direct play when possible, a container remux when needed, audio-only AAC conversion at most. Video is untouched, always — unsupported codecs get an honest error instead.
velvet screening room
Folders become a poster grid framed by near-black velvet curtains drooping into the dark — blended or by folder, sorted your way, as dim as a theatre before the feature.
Resume +10
Right-click on the Mac, long-press on tvOS: pick up where you stopped, or ten seconds later to hop past the scene that keeps tripping a codec.
remotes that survive crashes
The tvOS and iOS companions pair once with a PIN, browse the Mac's library, and pull the stream directly — if playback dies, they're already open and ready to resume.
search online, filename cleaned
Score scrubs release tags off the filename and hands a clean title to your pick of OpenSubtitles, SubDL, Podnapisi, or Addic7ed.
under the hood
- Swift, Xcode 26 — SwiftUI on macOS 26, tvOS 26, and iOS 26 from one shared package; native UI everywhere, custom chrome only where always-on transport controls demand it.
- AVFoundation + AVKit — playback, AirPlay routing, HDR passthrough, and Now Playing integration are all Apple's own stack.
- FFmpeg, LGPL, dynamically linked — bundled on the Mac only, for probing files, MKV remuxing, thumbnails, and DTS/TrueHD→AAC; built GPL-free from a pinned, credited source.
- local HTTP + HLS — a FlyingFox (MIT) server remuxes to fragmented MP4 on the fly; every screen — the Mac, AirPlay, Apple TV, iPhone, even a second Mac — plays the same stream.
- AI-debuggable by design — levelled JSONL logs per subsystem in dated folders, with one-click diagnostics export in Settings.