VLC media player is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player that plays most multimedia files as well as discs, devices, and network streaming protocols.
This is the port of VLC media player to the Android™ platform. VLC for Android can play any video and audio files, as well as network streams, network shares and drives, and DVD ISOs, like the desktop version of VLC.
VLC for Android is a full audio player, with a complete database, an equalizer and filters, playing all weird audio formats.
VLC is intended for everyone, is totally free, has no ads, no in-app-purchases, no spying and is developed by passionate volunteers. All the source code is available for free.
Features –––––––– VLC for Android™ plays most local video and audio files, as well as network streams (including adaptive streaming), DVD ISOs, like the desktop version of VLC. It also support disk shares.
All formats are supported, including MKV, MP4, AVI, MOV, Ogg, FLAC, TS, M2TS, Wv and AAC. All codecs are included with no separate downloads. It supports subtitles, Teletext and Closed Captions.
VLC for Android has a media library for audio and video files, and allows to browse folders directly.
VLC has support for multi-track audio and subtitles. It supports auto-rotation, aspect-ratio adjustments and gestures to control volume, brightness and seeking.
It also includes a widget for audio control, supports audio headsets control, cover art and a complete audio media library.
Permissions –––––––––––– VLC for Android needs access to those categories: • "Photos/Media/Files" to read your all media files :) • "Storage" to read your all media files on SD cards :) • "Other" to check network connections, change the volume, set the ringtone, run on Android TV and display the popup view, see below for details.
Permission Details : • It needs "read the contents of your USB storage", in to order to read your media files on it. • It needs "modify or delete the contents of your USB storage", in order to allow deletion of files and store subtitles.
• It needs "full network access", to open network and internet streams. • It needs "prevent phone from sleeping" in order to prevent... your phone from sleeping when watching a video. • It needs "change your audio settings", in order to change audio volume. • It needs "modify system settings", in order to allow you to change your audio ringtone. • It needs "view network connections" in order to monitor whether device is connected or not. • It needs "draw over other apps" to start the custom picture-in-picture widget. • It needs "control vibration" to give feedback on the controls. • It needs "run at startup" to set recommendations on Android TV launcher screen, only used on Android TV devices. • It needs "microphone" to provide voice search on Android TV devices, only asked on Android TV devices.
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27 Aug 2023
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James McCrea
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21 August 2024
I've been using your app for years, and I have only one complaint: please adjust your randomizer. I have over 700 songs on my device, and your randomizer seems to play the same 20 songs every single time I use it, no matter how short a time I use it, especially if I start from track one. Weirdly, it gravitates to the same songs even if I don't start at one. With 700+ tracks, I don't get why it does this, the odds are too high for them to play so often.
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HAMMER 911
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26 August 2024
I love VLC on PC. But from my Android phone, I will delete it. I don't want an App to scan my whole phone storage. I want to choose folders I keep music in. Or even just manually play, and that's it. Yes, there is an option to disable automatic rescan. But you can't disable the first-time scan. It's pretty frustrating, I would say. P.S. reply to the VLC's reply: I can't stop the initial scan. I am trying to choose folders for the media, and the button doesn't do anything. It keeps scanning.
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Videolabs
26 August 2024
You can choose your media folders in More -> Settings -> Media library folders. If you decide not to scan any folder, you can use the browser section (middle icon in the bottom navigation bar) to manually browse you media, and it won't be indexed.
Mahmudul Hasan Ibn Azam
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16 August 2024
I like this video player very much. However, in the current version subtitle doesn't align when switching windows like Zoom, Fit_to_screen or Fullscreen. Furthermore, switching to Fullscreen causes subtitles (softcore) to align outside (below) of the screen, making it invisible. Please fix this issue in the next update.
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What's new
* Fix media controls not working after some time on Android 13 * Fix audio notification icon transparency * Fix some Android Auto and Android TV behaviors * Fix opening from other apps * Bluetooth fixes * Minor interface fixes * Crash fixes