VLC Player For Android

Developer adridu59 on xda developers forum has manged to build VLC player for Android, from the Source VLC Player Files .This is a pretty good news for Android users as they will get the taste of their favorite Media Player of PC on Android.The current build still has some bugs and its in WIP (Work in Progess) stage.But plays ample of media file formats.here's are the features of this awesome media player.


Features :

• Gingerbread & ICS support
• Hardware acceleration support [Buggy]
• Headset detection
• Almost all media formats *should* be working (DTS/MPEG2/Theora still WIP)
• Remember that this is still WIP.

The developer adridu59 also specified compatibility list for different processors .Its specified as follows:

• Snapdragon S1 → ARM11
• Snapdragon S2/S3 → Cortex-A8/NEON
• Snapdragon S4 → Cortex-A9
• Tegra 2 → Cortex-A9
• Hummingbird → Cortex-A9 (Current gen. only)
• OMAP3 → Cortex-A8/NEON
• OMAP4 → Cortex-A9

File Menu

Artists Menu

He currently has support in for seven different chipsets. Knowing what chip your device is using will be key to checking out the beta as there are three different apk's to choose from. I just installed it on my friends Galaxy S, it installed fine, opened fine and ran through its search of media files on my device. Some comments in the thread claim issues and other various problems. They seem to be all over the place. With some devices having success while others with the same device are not. More than likely it is due to the wrong file downloaded or ROM compatibility issues.At first launch it says its aplha release, and then the app proceeds to scan all your files to find music, movies and other types of media. It had no issues find all media of various types. There is a music layout that has a swipe navigation style to it to choose between all songs, Artists, Albums or Genres. I only had a couple of MP3 and it played fine.

Movie Playback

As for movies are concerned, I had no issues playing any of the MP4′s that I had recently converted. The picture quality was perfect and audio was in synchronization with the video i.e no frame delay. It played fine in both landscape and portrait mode for me. Tapping the screen will bring up the players controls during a movie. It has your standard location slider, pause and play buttons. The pause button doubles as your fast forward and rewind feature. Instead of tapping on it you literally press and hold then drag. It lets you go forward or backwards in the video anywhere from 1 second to 60 seconds. It also has various aspect ratios available; 4:3, 16:9, fill, center and fit vertical. When skipping around a movie to various locations I experienced ZERO lag.   

I haven’t had a chance to test out the other file formats the developer states work, but just from the regular files I already have in my memory, this is going to be my new player. I also never had to once enable the hardware acceleration either. You guys should go check it out and get it installed .

Download Links APK's (MediaFire) (Source: xda-developers forum)

VLC-20120227.apk [ARM11] [Latest]

VLC-20120226.apk [Cortex-A8, NEON] [Latest]

VLC-20120227.apk [Cortex-A9] [Latest]

→ Enable "Unknown Sources" in order to install it

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