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VLC for Android beta

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⚠⚠ This application is DEPRECATED! Move to the new application here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.vlc ⚠⚠

The new application is faster and has more features!

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 a BETA version of the port of VLC media player to the Android™ platform. It plays both audio and video.

It is intended for everyone, but this version is not perfectly stable.
It is still a beta, so it might kill your kitten or destroy your house, but it should be mostly fine now.
Use it at your own risk. Have fun! :)

NOTA BENE
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This version is for devices with an ARMv7 CPU or a x86 CPU. ARMv6 devices will be supported in a future release.

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.
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 and brightness.
It also includes a widget for audio control, supports audio headsets control, cover art and a complete audio media library.

Missing Features
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As this is an early BETA version, a lot of things are not finished, but will change for the final release:
• Hardware decoding works only with a limited set of hardware;
• Other unknown issues.

Permissions
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VLC for Android Beta needs acces to :
• "Device & app History" to be able to read logs, during the beta, to help understand crashes and issues.
• "Photos/Media/Files" to read your media files
• "Device ID & call information" in order to pause music/video during incoming calls

Permission Details :
• It needs "read phone status an identity", in order to pause music during incoming calls.
• It needs "modify or delete the contents of your USB storage", in order to allow deletion of files.
• It needs "read the contents of your USB storage", in to order to read your media files on it.
• It needs "full network access", to open network streams.
• It needs "control vibration", in order to provide UI feedback when seeking in the audio player.
• It needs "prevent phone from sleeping" in order to prevent... your phone from sleeping.
• 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.
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Reviews

4.3
838,404 total
5 510,318
4 168,065
3 75,889
2 33,526
1 50,606
Demissie Abebe
VLC Good
Divya Prakash Mishra
Excellent Excellent App
Umair Qamar
Nice
Mike Tomas
Expected better from a seasoned multiplayer group Known for being THE video player for PC, when I finally saw VLC for android I jumped on it. However a serious issue of lipflap exists. Meaning the audio and video don't match up together and I was unable to fix it in the settings. Also I experienced the commonly mentioned brightness issue reported in the reviews but considering the lipflap issue, that's minor. I won't be deleting, but waiting for the fix. VLC will become the leading android video player, but not with it's first release that's for sure.
Devashish Hait
Issues... Dear time.. you are great... i like this apps..mostly for this app's equalizer option i feel the base..wow..amazing... but but but i have some problem....this app is not showing my sd card option i mean when i click on sd card option then it doesn't show any media files..but when I search some media life like movies then app shows file which i searched....but mainly not showing any sub categories or media file under the sd card option please help me...plz fixed this issue..
Richard Wood
Stutter's. Almost unusable on my new hudl 2. Video stutters on every film. Shame as it works on nexus 7. Love the screen on my hudl but cannot use vlc. Please update to remove this bug as the picture just stutters? Even on half speed the stutter is there!

User reviews

Demissie Abebe September 24, 2015
VLC Good
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Divya Prakash Mishra January 7, 2016
Excellent Excellent App
Full Review
Umair Qamar September 23, 2015
Nice
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Mike Tomas December 21, 2014
Expected better from a seasoned multiplayer group Known for being THE video player for PC, when I finally saw VLC for android I jumped on it. However a serious issue of lipflap exists. Meaning the audio and video don't match up together and I was unable to fix it in the settings. Also I experienced the commonly mentioned brightness issue reported in the reviews but considering the lipflap issue, that's minor. I won't be deleting, but waiting for the fix. VLC will become the leading android video player, but not with it's first release that's for sure.
Full Review
Devashish Hait April 2, 2016
Issues... Dear time.. you are great... i like this apps..mostly for this app's equalizer option i feel the base..wow..amazing... but but but i have some problem....this app is not showing my sd card option i mean when i click on sd card option then it doesn't show any media files..but when I search some media life like movies then app shows file which i searched....but mainly not showing any sub categories or media file under the sd card option please help me...plz fixed this issue..
Full Review
Richard Wood April 19, 2015
Stutter's. Almost unusable on my new hudl 2. Video stutters on every film. Shame as it works on nexus 7. Love the screen on my hudl but cannot use vlc. Please update to remove this bug as the picture just stutters? Even on half speed the stutter is there!
Full Review
Sylvanus Zoamo December 30, 2015
Nice but not without its own issues It does not allow me to create a playlist so that my videos play continuously. One must manually select and play a video when the previous one if finished. That's really uninteresting. I wl give 5stars when fixed
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Steve Goodman September 24, 2015
Playing album is not intuitive When I select an album, it immediately starts playing the album from the beginning. I want it to show me the songs on the album and let me select which one I want to play. There is no easy way to see the list of songs on the album. You have to hold down the song that is playing and then the songs appear as a playlist. This is not easy to do while driving.
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Francisco Mercado III February 28, 2015
Video doesnt sync with sounds. When i play any movies it does sync vid and sound at start but when you watch further you'll experience the delay.. please fix will give 5 starts when fixed.
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Emanuel Di Nardo December 29, 2014
Good but... Player is excellent like on desktop version, but it has a problem with screen brightness, it go to 0 every time you touch the screen also you disable brightness screen control...it is very annoying and make impossible to watch movies. I come back to vlc only when this problem will be solved.
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Robin Singh March 31, 2015
Seek Bug while using mouse I installed vlc on android x86 which is on my laptop. Video playback is perfect. But there is problem in controls. When I hover my mouse it starts seeking forward backward which makes this app unusable for me. Please fix this.
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Manoj Kumar Sahoo January 9, 2015
Need so many improvements Its a great player for PC... but for android not so much... Need so many improvements... the main Problem is with Video Player ui... its like need fast forward and backward bottons...also like we can set its jump like 5...10 sec as per we want... screen orientation icon needed on player...also videos loading time is too slow.. sometime it hangs... make it fast... add like sound boost in equalizer. .. also resume playback... like when I left video on half play... I can play from that point...
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Rich F January 10, 2015
Generally nice but audio sync issues I find that there's currently no way to fix audio sync issues like on the computer version. It's only 50ms out or so, but obviously it's irritating.
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Madhu Mohanty March 9, 2016
Waste 1 This is really waste app. All my videos are not showing and some videos are not playing. Whenever I m trying to play those videos vlc is stopping automatically..😢😢
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Anthony Migchelbrink January 27, 2015
Works awesome on Asus Transformer I need to watch videos posted in Mov format from time to time and this app does the trick. I opened the app and my downloaded videos were already found and waiting. The playback is great. I haven't noticed any problems.
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André Magalhães March 7, 2016
Excelent just like linux version but still... I discouvered a bug, for some reason while i'm listening music (minimized or not) if i change the position of tablet (landscape to vertical or vice versa) the player stops the music ( if video works just fine :) Can you resolve this? It's small bug but a bit annoying...
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Henrik Beck June 5, 2015
Essential but not beautiful This is the best application for watching any format of video because it supports any type of file you use day by day. Besides that the inteface is ugly and it saves your historic what it could have a way to disable it
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Alan Rothenbush December 20, 2014
Bad UI Unusable unless you do not touch the screen. Every swipe reduces the brightness to low. Even if you turn the option off, swipes still reduce brightness.
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Videolabs January 6, 2015
This is a bug and will be fixed in next upgrade.
adi ryansyah March 5, 2015
Very good, still needs improvement A very good video player for me, plays variety of formats, and support subtitle. But it's lack some customization options, like the ability to disable slide volume control (it's annoying because whenever i try to show android default controls by sliding upwards, i inadvertently maximize the volume). There's also a glitch whenever i resume a video after pausing it.
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Er Nvs April 15, 2016
Sucks for international movies Freezes my tablet (not the frigging program) the whole tablet! when trying to play a subtitled movie...I guess its made for english listening users only with no use for subs...no chinese, french, japanese movies...tsss
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Robert Brueneman January 9, 2015
Vlc! Would give five stars if it weren't for the fact that every time I touch the screen to pause or whatever, the brightness goes straight to zero. This is basically a mild annoyance and I hope that there is a setting or something I am missing. Other than that its vlc player!!
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commoners solution December 17, 2015
It work well...(lol) It have many errors and mistakes done by developers . 1) it shows all videos as single. It also doesn't play many s/w or hw+ videos correctly.I think that developers have to work hard to beat MX PLAYER(it's best one).
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Peter Reber December 20, 2015
Audio The video part is good but I'd like to adjust the volume by swiping and the ability to slow down an audio track just like the videos. The interface should be consistent. Also, the files list is just irritating, I should be able to disable it as I will select files using File Manager.
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Swayam Talukder January 27, 2016
Good..bt video files loading is slow for every frst time opn..nd there is no option for short by folder It is much slower 2 load all files at every first time when i open the app ..it takes longer time..to load all files.........and plese add a feature by which we can short videos by folder..its realy needed
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Vamshi Krishna December 15, 2015
Absolutely CRAP!! Uninstalled. This is a noob app. Pls don't waste your time & data for downloading this. Vlc totally let down by this
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Utkarsh Jaiswal December 12, 2014
The apps good but If u can add an option to play video from beginning it would be very nice. And 1 more thing could there be an option so that videos can be played continuously one after the other.
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Fletcher Beard May 27, 2015
Great! It plays anything. I mostly use it when I encounter an oddball codec nothing else will play. Normally it's the audio within a video file. So far it has yet to fail me. My only issue is that occasionally locks up my entire tablet and then crashes. Update: seems that the Beta app is more stable than the full release. Ironic. Plus it doesn't crash anymore.
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Karl Martin January 4, 2016
Cannot Forward Again. Right now I cannot forward again, it gets stuck after forwarding a video file. I believe its an application problem for stock player can forward without any problem.
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Jason Smith January 10, 2017
This may be deprecated but the normal app won't work on my tablet This version is only approved work on budget tablet.. other one crashes
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Peter Jones January 15, 2015
Used to be great I used to love this app on my old Nexus 7, played everything brilliantly but on my new Huddle 2 it stutters on every video. It's unusable, which is a real shame.
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da josh April 25, 2015
Pretty great, not quite to PC standards, but still worth it. I downloaded this because I've always been a big fan of VLC and enjoy it's use on my PC, and the android port of the program doesn't disappoint. The ONLY complaint that I have about the program, is that while playing any video, if the UI isn't present (Ie; when you turn the volume up or down, the play, pause, etc buttons all show up) when you touch the screen to FF or REW, then the video will jump ahead by approx 8-13 seconds. Essentially requiring me to rewind it. In essence, what this means is that if I want to pause, FF, REW, or do ANYTHING, I first have to alter the volume to cause the UI (the buttons) to show up first. Simply touching the screen will cause the video to jump ahead by several seconds. That one issue aside, I absolutely love the program, and I am VERY EXCITED for the release of 3.0 and the addition of screen casting to Chromecast functionality! :-D Thanks VLC! (and if a resolution of the issue I mentioned could be addressed in the next update, it would DEF get you 5 stars ;-) ) Should I install "VLC for Android" instead?? Is that a more stable version or release??
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Yeok Teck Quak March 7, 2015
would give it 5 if... comparing it with MX player, I find MX has a smoother playback. VLC was stuttering after a while
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Kyle Lee January 21, 2016
doesnt work i think vlc is great, use on all my machines.. but it wont work on my asus zenpad, i get crazy-long errors for any video file.
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Anupam Shukla January 8, 2017
OK but Sound needs work Sound is a big issue, cant 200% be made as its done in the PC ?
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D Og February 26, 2015
Good interface, buggy compatibility Doesn't read all my video files, fails to play video for others. Fills in where the default video player falls short. High hopes for improvements
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Jamie Ball January 25, 2015
Promising but has major issues I have yet to find a media file that plays correctly without severe stuttering at points and video and audio being out of sync. Also needed is the same equaliser volume boost as featured on the pc version. A screen lock function should also be inbuilt as it overrides the default screen lock settings on the tablet. I am using asus memo pad. This is definitely my favourite player on the pc and i really hope it can reach the same level of quality on android.
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Muhammad Fahmi Hasfi February 11, 2016
Add This! Please add audio or subtitle delay or hastened control, please... i will give 5 star if you are respond my request.. thanks..
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Sanket Suman June 25, 2015
Good app but needs improvement Good app. Interface is cool. But few lags are there. One thing needs to be updated and that is continuous play of songs one after other as there is no option for playing songs consecutively.
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Jong Lee February 27, 2015
Still beta but so much better than default player Only thing the default player has on my s5 over the vlc player is pip. Otherwise box all the way!
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Neo MoonSevin April 15, 2016
Vodafone Smart Prime 6 Plays videos but when u try to backtrack n click on a previously seen scene from a video it freezes
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Updated
December 9, 2014
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Content Rating
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