Video Player

Posted Sunday, January 4th, 2009 at 2:13 pm by 16 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

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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.

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16 Responses to “Video Player”

  1. danjr16 says:

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

  2. suesi says:

    how to download it?

  3. HyperAware says:

    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!

    • Edward Kan says:

      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)

    • Pen says:

      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!

  4. steven jover says:

    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

  5. thany says:

    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.

  6. sailor jo says:

    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!

  7. Geno says:

    Is there an app that will play .avi files?

  8. vineela says:

    videoplayer source code

  9. bruce says:

    so where is the link to download?

  10. petu says:

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

  11. niceemily says:

    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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  1. [...] Video Player app from Android Tapp does exactly what it says: It plays videos, a function that Google mysteriously chose to leave out of Android. Video Player isn’t fancy; you can play, pause, move backward and forward through the video, and that’s it. [...]

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