Good Video Players.. Are there any?

[kempyk]

Hi,

Im trying to use my Desire HD to replace the large amount of video watching i do on iPod. The standard player just doesnt do things i expect such as:
Allow me to sort videos by name (a picture of 20 episodes is no help)
Remember where i left off watching each episode/film when i pick it up the next day

I only use the standard formats like DIVX and MPEG4

Do any of you know any apps that can do this? i dont mind paying as its got to be cheaper than a new ipod

Searching the market turns up a load of badly described rubbish

 

[dawankler]

I use VPlayer and it does all of that (sorta). You browse your media files by directory structure and it's sortable by size or alphabetically. It remembers where you are if you've stopped watching in the middle (in fact, I just verified it kept the place of a movie I was last watching two weeks ago, as well as a movie that I stopped in the middle of yesterday). I'm not sure of all the formats it's able to view, but I know that I haven't found one yet that it couldn't play and several of those that don't play in the stock video player.

Best of all is it's free for now. I first downloaded it as VPlayer Alpha, but I just noticed that an update at some point brought it up to VPlayer Beta. It wouldn't surprise me if it went pay when it goes gold.

If you've been using an iPhone (and/or get your video files marked as ripped for iPhone from "questionable" sources) they'll work just fine in Vplayer

 

[jimdroid]

+1 for vPlayer.

I tried RockPlayer for a while; it works pretty well for video, but on my Evo, the audio was frequently out of sync. It's free as well (nagware).

 

[lexluthor]

This one is very good. Keeps adding new features too.

mVideoPlayer - Android app on AppBrain

 

[beer-in-box]

I use both vPlayer and mVideoPlayer.
I first used mVideoPlayer, but one day it didn't play one file. For that, I sought for another and found vPlayer. Subtitles were important for me. So both does that.

But with vPlayer, if I recall right, I was not able to play last 4-5 minutes of my videos.

And now suprisingly, mVideoPlayer started to play the very same file that it couldn't play a week ago. So, my vote goes toooooooooo mVideoPlayer. Definitely!

They are both free, but if mVideoPlayer was not free, I could pay up to 5 dollars to it. And it does everything you want, and plays those files you want.

 

[kempyk]

Cheers everyone.

Now i just need to find a camera app that takes a picture when i release my finger from the screen and something to disable the volume keys on the side from accidentally turning off the ringer. Then my ipod/nokia days will be over forever!

 

[jimdroid]

I just tried out mVideoPlayer, thanks for the link. It looks great, but doesn't play all the video formats that vPlayer does... I have all kinds of video formats (mp4, mpg, avi, flv, ram...) and so far, vPlayer and RockPlayer are the only two players that play them all.

 

[fsc]

I can't seem to get vplayer in the market or on appbrain. I can see the page for it on AppBrain but I can't install. Can anyone point me to an .apk for this app? I'd love to try it.

Thanks

 

[jimdroid]

I can't seem to get vplayer in the market or on appbrain. I can see the page for it on AppBrain but I can't install. Can anyone point me to an .apk for this app? I'd love to try it.

Are you running 2.1 on the Hero? If not, it won't run. If you aren't running 2.1, you should be

 

[FLORIDA_STATE_UNIVERSITY]

arcmedia

 

[fsc]

Are you running 2.1 on the Hero? If not, it won't run. If you aren't running 2.1, you should be

yep. running 2.1 on a stock hero. I did some googling and found an apk file for the alpha version but it won't install. Guess I need 2.2 or else it just doesn't like the hero.

 

[jimdroid]

arcmedia

Thanks, it works well too. Plays all the formats I have and does a nice job, plus it has a cool scrollbar

 

[FLORIDA_STATE_UNIVERSITY]

I agree.... syncing (voice to video) seems much better than any of the other ones. I am reasonably satisfied for a small player on long trips.

 

[JevyJav]

I use Vplayer for all videos that aren't in native supported formats and I use "act-1" for everything else I wish there was a way to combine vplayers format playability with act 1's customization

 

[BurnCK]

I was using RockPlayer (which I thought was pretty good) but recently switched to arcMedia player which seems just as good and takes up less space on my internal memory

 

[flipn0tic]

vPlayer is the most functional for my EVO. The programmer started charging for the app, which I usually don't have a problem with, except he promised from the getgo that the app will ALWAYS be free. I understand wanting a little back for your hard work but don't make a promise you can't keep. Breaks the trust of your customers.