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

The only complaint is that when watching a movie in pop up view you can't fast forward or rewind in the video. you can only go back to the last video, to the beginning of the current video, or to the next video. It's very annoying. Other than that I LOVE this app. My favorite part is the volume boost for my music. some songs DESERVE to be blasted as loud as possible while sounding amazing and the volume controls allow me to find the perfect balance.

It's been two years since I wrote a critical review about the constant resyncing BS that plagues this app, and it's even worse now. Every other time I boot the app up it resyncs. The playlist feature is essentially useless, and I have to wait for my files to be found for the thousandth time. If I add new music, I need to refresh the app to find it, which wipes out the entire library YET AGAIN. Why can you not add new music without wiping out the entire library and rescanning? What a joke.

The app crashes whenever it tries to scan my files. It doesn't matter whether it starts automatically or if I start the scan manually. It just crashes. I can browse the files just fine and manually play them that way, but my library literally cannot be updated. This has been the case for a while now and has still not been fixed in the most recent update.

What’s new

* New equalizer
* Better setting export/import
* Support for 16k alignment devices
* Move the Android Auto settings to the mobile app
* Behavior, UI and crash fixes