VLC for Android

Videolabs

About this app

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
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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
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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.

Ratings and reviews

What happened? It used to be the best player, now it's the worst. Some videos show the opening frame for up to 5 seconds while I'm hearing the audio then suddenly it'll start showing the video. So basically I can't watch the first 5 seconds of videos. Then when it is playing it'll just randomly pause despite not being paused. It's not buffering, it just found something it didn't like and decided to give up. If I rewind 10 seconds and hit play it'll continue, but without any audio. I give up.

Music is only playable in 2 cases: if I browsed my memory and directly clicked to play a file, or if I browsed the storage from within the app. Music can't show up in the audio directory. I once saved a playlist, but its music is unplayable. I already have my music folder from my media library settings enabled, but the phone shows me that the app scans for a while, and no music to be found. My phone is new and very fast with 8GB of RAM. Surely the app is faulty.

Trying to use the app for casting within my local network. Don't know where to begin with issues: sudden break ups of connection (despite of sufficient speed), unstable connection all over the place - whether it is using http or smb stream. When using ftp, it would not even let me browse, nor picking a file due to wrong path string. When casting breaks up, it's hard to reconnect and it doesn't save progress for resuming. You can't add subtitles on casting, too. The list is long. It's a shame.

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