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VLC media player for Android™
VLC for Android™ beta
VLC for Android™ is in beta stage.
Features
- Plays all files, in all formats, like the classic VLC.
- Audio and video media library, with full search.
- Support for network streams, including HLS.
- Supports Android from version 2.1 (platform-7).
- Supports ARMv6, ARMv7 and ARMv7+NEON.
- Subtitles support, embedded and external, including ASS and DVD subtitles.
- Multi audio or subtitles tracks selection.
- Multi-core decoding, for Cortex-A7 A9 and A15 chips.
- Experimental hardware decoding.
- Gestures, headphones control.
Help us!
Test it
We need help to test VLC under a variety of devices.
Please join us on our forum.
Kickstart us!
We need funding to:
- Buy or rent the large variety of devices;
- Fund some developers and support people to fix bugs;
- Buy various tools to speed-up development.
so VLC works perfectly on Android phones and tablets.
Send us phones
If you are a phone manufacturer or have spare phones, please send them to us :)
Software performance on phones for H.264
This table is a rough idea of what one can hope to play with VLC on Android, for now, using the software decoder.
Performance is likely to improve in the future.
| Name | 480p | 576p | 720p | MKV 720p + ASS |
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Recommended phones
- Galaxy Nexus; (OMAP 4460)
- HTC One X; (Tegra 3)
- Samsung Galaxy S3; (Exynos 4 Quad)
- Motorola Defy; (OMAP 3610)
- HTC Desire; (QSD8250 Snapdragon)
- Nexus one. (QSD8250 Snapdragon)
Thanks
We would like to thank people who helped us.
