Drop a video file. MovieThrow figures out the codec, prepares it on the fly, and AirPlays it to your TV — subtitles and all.
macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple silicon · Free
MP4 · MKV · MOV · AVI · WebM · M2TS · and more
No fiddling with formats. MovieThrow inspects every file by codec — not by extension — and does the least work needed to get it onto your TV.
Already Apple-TV-friendly? It plays directly. Wrong container but fine codecs? It remuxes in seconds — no quality loss, no waiting.
When a real conversion is needed, it uses Apple silicon's VideoToolbox encoder — fast and cool, not a maxed-out CPU.
A live HLS stream means playback starts after the first second or two — you don't wait for the whole file to finish preparing.
Embedded tracks, sidecar SRT/VTT/ASS/SSA, even image-based Blu-ray (PGS) subs — OCR'd to selectable text. Soft, never burned in.
Picks your Apple TV with the standard AirPlay control and streams over your LAN — the TV does the decoding, your Mac just feeds it.
One window. Drop a file or press ⌘O. In-app play/pause, scrub, and a live "streaming to" indicator. That's the whole app.
Any common video — MP4, MKV, MOV, AVI, WebM, and more. Drag it in or open it with ⌘O.
MovieThrow probes the codecs and direct-plays, remuxes, or hardware-transcodes — whatever's fastest.
Hit AirPlay, choose your device, and it streams over your network. Subtitles toggle right on the TV.