EmPlayer — Your Media, Your Way
The all-in-one media player for Android: local video and music, home-network NAS browsing, HTTP/HLS/RTSP streams, Trakt watch history, automatic subtitles with AI translation and DLNA casting to your TV.
▶ VIDEO PLAYER
• Hardware & software decoding — H.264, HEVC, AV1, VP9, VP8 and more
• Auto-resume from last position for local files, SMB/NAS and streams
• Volume boost up to 200% — clean PCM amplification with no audio dropout
• Brightness boost up to 200% — gesture-controlled from the screen edge
• Chapter navigation — chapter list and seek-bar tick marks
• Picture-in-Picture (PiP) with configurable aspect ratio
• Playback queue with previous / next navigation
• Screen lock with double-tap-to-unlock while playing
• Per-file software decoder override for problem files
• HEVC Sync Fix — eliminates audio/video drift on HEVC content
• Video rotation control and stream picker for multi-track files
🎨 VIDEO ENHANCEMENT
• Smart Enhance — 5 modes: Balanced, Vivid, Soft, Night, Cinematic
• Sharpness slider with live preview
• Anti-aliasing toggle for smooth edges
• Real-time performance overlay: fps, dropped frames, CPU, RAM, network
🔤 SUBTITLES
• Auto-download from OpenSubtitles — hash-matched for perfect sync
• Manual search by title or release group name
• Sidecar files: .srt, .ass, .ssa, .vtt, .sub
• Embedded track selection from the video container
• AI translation to any language (powered by MyMemory)
• Sync offset slider with live preview
• Adjustable vertical and horizontal position
• Fallback language list — tried automatically if primary has no results
• Subtitle cache — reopens instantly without re-downloading
⏭ SKIP INTRO & OUTRO
• Mark the intro end once per show/season — skip banner auto-appears on every episode
• Mark where credits begin — optionally jumps to the next episode automatically
• Wildcard mode — one entry covers all release variants of the same season
🌐 SMB / NAS
• Browse Windows PCs, Synology, QNAP and any SMB 2/3 NAS as library folders
• Auto-discover devices via mDNS and subnet scan
• Encrypted saved credentials — no re-entry needed
• Full Trakt progress badges, thumbnails and poster art on network files
📡 DLNA / CAST
• Cast to Samsung, LG, Sony, Philips, TCL, Roku and any UPnP AV renderer
• Full cast remote — play, pause, seek, volume, subtitles, audio track, playlist
• External subtitles delivered as SRT over local HTTP
⭐ TRAKT SYNC
• Automatic scrobbling — watch history and progress synced to Trakt.tv
• Continue Watching row — resume in-progress episodes across all your devices
• Trakt-powered poster art, show info and episode details in your library
🎵 MUSIC PLAYER
• Background playback with lock-screen and notification controls
• Library tabs: Songs, Albums, Artists and Folders with real-time search
• Animated full-width album art or retro Vinyl disc style
• 10-band hardware equalizer with built-in presets and unlimited custom presets
• ID3 tag editor — title, artist, album, year, genre, track number, album art
• Bulk tag editing for multiple tracks at once
• Lyrics support — .lrc sidecar files or embedded tags, scrolling in sync
⚙ AND MORE
• Plugin system — add subtitle sources or colour themes as JSON files
• Folder lock — protect any local or SMB folder with a master password
• Backup & Restore — all settings, skip-intro data, plugins and API keys
• OSD customization — show or hide any player button
• Bluetooth audio delay compensation saved per device
• L/R audio channel swap — fix inverted stereo from the player OSD
• Network buffer presets for SMB, HTTP, HLS and RTSP
EmPlayer is free to download. A small non-intrusive ad supports ongoing development.
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