Just (Video) Player

Marcel Dopita

About this app

Android video player based on the ExoPlayer library. It uses ExoPlayer's ffmpeg extentsion with all its audio formats enabled (it can handle even special formats like AC3, EAC3, DTS, DTS HD, TrueHD etc.).

It properly syncs audio with the video track when using Bluetooth earphones/speaker.

Supported formats

* Audio: Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, ALAC, PCM/WAVE (μ-law, A-law), MP1, MP2, MP3, AMR (NB, WB), AAC (LC, ELD, HE; xHE on Android 9+), AC-3, E-AC-3, DTS, DTS-HD, TrueHD
* Video: H.263, H.264 AVC (Baseline Profile; Main Profile on Android 6+), H.265 HEVC, MPEG-4 SP, VP8, VP9, AV1
* Containers: MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV, Ogg, MPEG-TS, MPEG-PS, FLV
* Streaming: DASH, HLS, SmoothStreaming, RTSP
* Subtitles: SRT, SSA, TTML, VTT

HDR (HDR10+ and Dolby Vision) video playback on compatible/supported hardware.

Features

* Audio/subtitle track selection
* Playback speed control
* Horizontal swipe and double tap to quickly seek
* Vertical swipe to change brightness (left) / volume (right)
* Pinch to zoom (Android 7+)
* PiP (Picture in Picture) on Android 8+ (resizable on Android 11+)
* Resize (fit/crop)
* Volume boost
* Auto frame rate matching on Android TV/boxes (Android 6+)
* Post-playback actions (delete file/skip to next)
* Touch lock (long tap)
* No ads, tracking or excessive permissions

To load external (non-embedded) subtitles, long press the file open action in the bottom bar. The first time you do that, you will be offered to select root video folder to enable automatic loading of external subtitles.

This app doesn't provide any video content by itself. It can only access and play content provided by the user.

Open source / source code available: https://github.com/moneytoo/Player

Ratings and reviews

Simple. The instructions for use are not on the main Google Play page and are non-existent on the app. No looping capability that I have found, and no easy way to scroll frame by frame through video if videos are short. Videos made with a high speed camera are about 4 seconds in length. It would be nice to scroll through them frame by frame, and loop through them while showing them. Overall nice, but I'll have to keep looking to find what I need. Best regards.

Pros: Very lightweight and smooth performance. Cons: It feels too empty and there's no menu, No option to adjust subtitle position (at least I couldn't find any), Subtitles are stuck at the very bottom of the screen, Subtitle lines wrap upward instead of downward — which messes up the reading flow. For example, it shows: "to see you. It's good" instead of "It's good to see you."

The app is very good but there is a brightness issue. While watching HDR content the brightness should be kept at maximum and this makes everything on the screen way BRIGHT, the title, the buttons, the timeline & especially the SUBTITLES which makes watching the HDR content very difficult. Please give us the option to set the brightness of the subtitles and the transparency of it. It will make watching HDR content more exciting.

What’s new

• Update AndroidX Media to 1.10.1