William-Player

Project Overview

William Player is a video player spanning phones, TVs, and PCs with a clean, simple interface. It supports cloud playback from Tianyi Cloud, Quark Drive, and WebDAV, scrapes film and TV metadata into a poster wall, and bundles optional IPTV sources. Playback and data all happen locally without a separate backend service.

A single player lets you watch straight from your cloud drive.

Key Features

• Cloud playback: direct playback from Tianyi Cloud, Quark Drive, and WebDAV
• Metadata scraping: automatically fetches film metadata and builds a poster wall
• IPTV live: built-in sources with line selection and automatic grouping
• Gesture controls: double-tap to play or pause, swipe to adjust volume and brightness, pinch to zoom, and drag to seek
• Subtitles and audio tracks: embedded subtitle playback and audio track switching
• Multi-device sync: account data and playback records sync across devices
• Skip intro and outro: automatically or manually skip episode intros and outros
• Continuous playback: automatically switches to the next or previous episode for series
• Automatic updates: built-in update detection
• Three platforms: the same features cover phones, TVs, and Windows

Target Audience

• Users who binge series from cloud drives
• Android TV and TV box users
• Users who need local high-definition playback
• Movie fans who like poster-wall management

Quick Start

1. Go to Releases and pick the package for your device architecture: app-mobile.apk for phones, app-tv.apk for TVs
2. Install and open the app
3. Add a Tianyi Cloud, Quark Drive, or WebDAV account in settings
4. Open the media library and wait for scraping to finish, then browse the poster wall
5. Tap a movie to start playback and use gestures to adjust volume and progress
6. For live TV, open the IPTV page and choose a line

Core Advantages

• Local-first: playback and data happen locally with no self-hosted backend
• Cloud-direct: treat cloud drive videos as local sources, skipping the download step
• Consistent across devices: phones, TVs, and PCs share one interface and feature set
• Lightweight: the package is about 22 MB, so even older devices run it smoothly

System Requirements

Item	Requirement
OS	Android 8.0 or later, Windows
Architecture	arm64-v8a (phones), armeabi-v7a (TVs)
Cloud service	A Tianyi Cloud, Quark Drive, or WebDAV account
Network	Internet needed for cloud playback and IPTV

Notes

• Cloud services are provided by their vendors and are unrelated to this project
• This project provides no content resources and is for personal learning use only
• Cloud playback speed is affected by vendor rate limiting