Video Player

by Android Tapp Jan 4, 2009 2:13 PM – 17 Comments

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Basic Android Video Player. This application plays video files from the SD card. File should be MPEG4 or 3GPP with H.264 or H.263 and MP3, AAC, or AMR audio. Videos need to be 480×352 or smaller to play back properly.

Price: Free

Tested on: T-Mobile G1
Content Rating: Everyone

AndroidTapp.com Android App Review:

Video Player is just what the name says… It’s a basic video player for Android videos stored on the SD Card. It lists your videos, simply tapp a video and it plays. You can play, pause, fast-forward, rewind, and scrub video playback. If you rotate your phone, Video Player auto rotates in landscape or portrait video playback mode. Though basic in features we find it more reliable than some video playback apps.

Gripe Alert: Video Player lacks advanced features like Playlists, video searching, lyrics, tagging, auto playing the next video in your list, shuffle and repeat. At least there is an alternative in TuneWiki

AndroidTapp.com Rating

AndroidTapp.com Rating! (3.0 out of 5)

Should you Download Video Player? With limited choices for now… but Yes! UPDATE: with Android phones running Android 1.6+ this basic video player functionality is baked in by default when playing video versus the need for a separate- basic, and now seemingly deprecated app.

Developer: Jeff Hamilton

Tags: 3GPP, AAC, AMR, Android Apps, Android video player, AndroidTapp.com App Review, H.263 encoding, H.264 encoding, MP3, MP4, MPEG4, Video Player

Categorised in: Entertainment, Multimedia, Music

17 Comments

By danjr16 on January 7, 2009 at 11:29 pm:

video player cool man!!!!!!!!!

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By suesi on March 30, 2009 at 12:44 am:

how to download it?

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- By Android Tapp on March 30, 2009 at 6:19 am:
  
  @suesi Search “Video Player” in the Market from your Android Phone.
  
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By HyperAware on April 20, 2009 at 11:08 am:

Act 1 Video Player is far more advanced and useful if you spend a lot of time watching videos (like I do during my commutes). Totally worth the 99 cents for the full version!

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- By Edward Kan on April 1, 2010 at 4:43 am:
  
  I am thinking about getting a Android phone to playback video, but can anyone kindly tell me can ACT 1 video player or Android Tapp playbcak clips in fast forward mode (1.5x or 2.0x)while the sound can still be heard? I need the the phone come with function to view videos in fast forward mode so I can save half of the time…….(quality is not important)
  
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- By Pen on September 22, 2010 at 7:33 am:
  
  Yeah, it’s a very good player, BUT…… The price tripled in 1 year. It costs $2.79 now and they have a very strange update policy: you buy the full version and after some time you get a message you MUST update and they charge you $ again!!! You do not have a choice if you want their update or not!! So it becomes the never ending story: they make an update, you pay!
  
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By steven jover on November 21, 2009 at 1:46 am:

how do i make files 3GPP or mpeg4 i need help plz write to me here is my e mail steven.jover@yahoo.com please and thank you

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By thany on February 9, 2010 at 3:06 pm:

I don’t get it… Android is an OSS project, yet it doesn’t support the most open codec out there: Theora. Nor does it support the most open audio codecs: Vorbis and FLAC.

Also, what’s the deal with only two container formats? Is it really so hard to implement AVI, Matroska and Ogg Media?

Also I wonder, what’s with the lack of support for MPEG4-ASP? (xvid, divx, etc.) MPEG4-AVC is supported, which is part of the MPEG4 spec. So to me, that reeks of a half-baked implementation.

The programmers who wrote Android did a very bad job at audio/video playback, in my opinion.

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By sailor jo on February 17, 2010 at 5:35 pm:

I am confused. The free downloaded version does not have a user interface. I put two videos on the SD card in my HTC Hero. When I start the video player it just tells me there is no video. Does it look in some specific directory?

Please help if you can!

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By Geno on February 18, 2010 at 4:52 pm:

Is there an app that will play .avi files?

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By vineela on February 23, 2010 at 5:31 am:

videoplayer source code

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By bruce on May 25, 2010 at 4:10 pm:

so where is the link to download?

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By petu on July 1, 2010 at 8:42 am:

i’ve got a Sony Ericsson Xperia x10 but cant watch/ download movies off the net no longer than 2 mins.

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By niceemily on February 16, 2011 at 4:01 am:

Andorid even can play almost all the video formats including avi, mov, wmv, mp4, 3gp, flv, mkv, mpg, mod, avchd, tod,webm… with the following solution
http://www.bigasoft.com/articles/how-to-convert-video-to-android-phone-format.html?xtapp

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By camere supraveghere on March 5, 2013 at 8:10 am:

I can play .flv files on my s3. this is cool man!! thank you

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