VLC for Android v.VARY

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1 628 643 RatingsCategory: Video Players & Editors Free
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  • Pegi : Everyone
  • Publish Date : Feb 4, 2015
  • Update Date : October 18, 2021
  • File Size : Varies with device
  • Version : VARY
  • Installs : 100,000,000+
  • Op. System : Varies with device
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  • Updated :2021.12.01
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Description

VLC media player is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player that plays most multimedia files as well as discs, devices, and network streaming protocols.

This is the port of VLC media player to the Android™ platform. VLC for Android can play any video and audio files, as well as network streams, network shares and drives, and DVD ISOs, like the desktop version of VLC.

VLC for Android is a full audio player, with a complete database, an equalizer and filters, playing all weird audio formats.

VLC is intended for everyone, is totally free, has no ads, no in-app-purchases, no spying and is developed by passionate volunteers. All the source code is available for free.


Features
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VLC for Android™ plays most local video and audio files, as well as network streams (including adaptive streaming), DVD ISOs, like the desktop version of VLC. It also support disk shares.

All formats are supported, including MKV, MP4, AVI, MOV, Ogg, FLAC, TS, M2TS, Wv and AAC. All codecs are included with no separate downloads. It supports subtitles, Teletext and Closed Captions.

VLC for Android has a media library for audio and video files, and allows to browse folders directly.

VLC has support for multi-track audio and subtitles. It supports auto-rotation, aspect-ratio adjustments and gestures to control volume, brightness and seeking.

It also includes a widget for audio control, supports audio headsets control, cover art and a complete audio media library.


Permissions
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VLC for Android needs access to those categories:
• "Photos/Media/Files" to read your all media files :)
• "Storage" to read your all media files on SD cards :)
• "Other" to check network connections, change the volume, set the ringtone, run on Android TV and display the popup view, see below for details.

Permission Details :
• It needs "read the contents of your USB storage", in to order to read your media files on it.
• It needs "modify or delete the contents of your USB storage", in order to allow deletion of files and store subtitles.

• It needs "full network access", to open network and internet streams.
• It needs "prevent phone from sleeping" in order to prevent... your phone from sleeping when watching a video.
• It needs "change your audio settings", in order to change audio volume.
• It needs "modify system settings", in order to allow you to change your audio ringtone.
• It needs "view network connections" in order to monitor whether device is connected or not.
• It needs "draw over other apps" to start the custom picture-in-picture widget.
• It needs "control vibration" to give feedback on the controls.
• It needs "run at startup" to set recommendations on Android TV launcher screen, only used on Android TV devices.
• It needs "microphone" to provide voice search on Android TV devices, only asked on Android TV devices.

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What’s New

* Fix Chromecast playback
* Allow sorting albums by artist
* Fix some RTL issues
* Improve playback resume
* Persist audio player time mode
* Crash fixes

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Customer Reviews
VLC for Android
  • September 9, 2017
    It works great for all my media, really helps me access my stuff on the go. I really liked the volume and brightness touch sliders on the last version though, is there anyway we could get that back in? I wouldn't even mind reverting back to an old version because that was great for me.
  • September 9, 2016
    Needs tweaks This app is great for those who love to enjoy music and videos in one app. But it needs some tweaks in the app for scanning media stored on device. Noticeably the app scans media slowly on devices, this is main reason for people are less satisfied. Can you please reply me regarding this issue.
  • September 9, 2016
    Cant play audio in background Is there a way to play audio in background? Poweamp has this feature. Vlc is also an audio player, so why the music stops in a call or whatsapp voice record?? Add this feature and I will give you a 5 star. And please, add arrange music and videos by folders not only artist album...
  • September 9, 2015
    Vlc for Android Beta Could you plz add the ability to chromecast?
  • September 9, 2015
    Very good application ,waiting for excellent
  • September 8, 2018
    All good but please don't prompt me to save equaliser preset when i didn't click to save. Every time it ask me that. Very annoying. When i press save then i want it to save.
  • September 8, 2016
    In the few minutes before I was entirely offended by this app, I spent most of the time figuring out how to make it not do things I hadn't asked it to do, like scan my entire phone. Btw, the only way to do that is to make an empty folder and only let it look in that folder. The only good thing to say about my experience was that it was easy to turn it to dark mode.
  • September 8, 2016
    Search subtitle by name One major flaw I found here is that I cant search subtitle with my custom text. Most of the time the subtitle VLC found is not the perfect match for the video I am watching. Why make online subtitle search when the result is not right all the time? Other than that, it's awesome. I'd return to this app when this feature is added.
  • September 8, 2015
    Good old vlc As per usual THANKS XX
  • September 8, 2015
    Loved iii iii iii it. . This is one of the best app in all ctgry.... so don't think Go install it because I loved it..I loved it
  • September 8, 2015
    Awesome app This is the only player I use to watch videos with and highly recommend it to friends and family.
  • September 7, 2018
    Garbage. Network folders display but are empty. There is no back button from "This directory is empty" and you have to Force Stop the application to get out of the folder. Frustrating.
  • September 7, 2018
    It has been great aap since im using smart phone i always used vlc media player but after last update there is some glitches in it that need to be mixed asap. So thats why i won't give it 5 star rating otherwise it will be great if you fix it.
  • September 7, 2018
    Constantly losing my position after pausing, closes randomly, plays in background when opening files from file manager rather than internally and difficult to get access to VLC yo rewind or pause. Overall very poor user experience, only good for playing unique file formats.
  • September 7, 2017
    Awesome
  • September 7, 2016
    Generally the best all purpose music and video viewing app. The playlist feature needs more work to be *Easily* compatible with common media players like itunes. It is currently possible, but tedious to move playlists to or from itunes.
  • September 7, 2016
    VLC forgets Why is it if I close VLC half way through a film and then go back later VLC starts the movie over again? I don't have this issue with MX player.
  • September 7, 2015
    Chromecast support please. Chromecast support please; otherwise this is an amazing app and I thank you for it!
  • September 7, 2015
    Nice Handle very easy n both music n video play I like this feature
  • September 6, 2016
    Every time displays no media found Earlier it was working good but all of sudden it starts displaying that no media found please change your preference or transfer some media to phone memory. I have changed my preference to SD card but still it showing this error message.... Help me out.
  • September 6, 2016
    This its the BEST overall player Imo Ive used this for years on pc as well as droid, and ive always found it to be the BEST out of the lot with regards visual and audio codecs, i also like MX player, but when MX cant play a file, or the audio doesnt work, i always find that vlc works just fine. Top marks very well deserved
  • September 5, 2018
    It used to be great. But now the users are spoilt for choice. VLC really needs to add some functionalities such as rewind by few seconds on its main screen and notifications bar, and in general improve its UI to make it more friendly.
  • September 5, 2018
    I have tried many players. Among them vlc is the best. But needd to improve some features 1) in tv mode gestures are not working i.e brightness volume fast forword and backword 2) in folders my 'video'' folder is not showing 3) main video screen should be like MX player i.e folder mode Thanks. I'm using nokia 3
  • September 5, 2018
    If I pause and open another app it's hard to get back to where I was. I had difficulties listening to large files, a 12-hour audio course, or even a playlist of 48 lecture. Make it easier to continue where I left off. I don't like it when another app makes me lose my progress in what I'm listening to, forcing me to navigate back through a list of menus to get to where I just was. give me a favorites where I can put the stuff I want and get you a quickly.
  • September 5, 2017
    This Is The Best
  • September 5, 2016
    Index Please? Please index media files. Trying to load details on every multimedia file in my microSD card seems to crash my device (Samsung Note 4). Only when I try to open a .mkv file... Then I have to take the battery out of my phone because it froze... Maybe it's the codec? Strange though: the same .mkv files work on my PC at home with VLC. So I'm not too sure about this.
  • September 5, 2016
    Index Please? Please index media files. Trying to load details on every multimedia file in my microSD card seems to crash my device (Samsung Note 4). Only when I try to open a .mkv file... Then I have to take the battery out of my phone because it froze... Maybe it's the codec? Strange though: the same .mkv files work on my PC at home with VLC. So I'm not too sure about this.
  • September 5, 2015
    Nice app .. suppports AC3 audio which mx player doesn't support
  • September 5, 2015
    Love this player minus audio quality I've been waiting for this player. Simply perfect. The audio quality suffers. Mp3 and wav files gets a subtle distortion. I pray that they will fix that ASAP. Otherwise it's perfect:)
  • September 4, 2018
    The app has a tendency to crash and along with that, restart my phone randomly. This sometimes happens even when I am no longer playing any videos. Have tried u installing and reinstalling but the problem comes back. Am using a Nokia 6.
  • September 4, 2018
    It used to be good, but now I get the video randomly changing to picture-in-picture, weird crashes, the video playing without sound despite the fact it was fine a minute ago before the player crashed, and the player getting stuck reloading video so I can't watch anything. I'm benching this for a few updates.
  • September 4, 2016
    New update broke streaming! Guys, you broke it! There is a mmsh location I used to play and it does not work anymore. The location is still valid, I checked it on my PC.
  • September 4, 2016
    Worst app ! Don't try it Altough its best app on pc. but on my tab i cant play video from outside the app. I need to open the app and select from playlist.kills so much time.
  • September 4, 2016
    Great Beautiful implementation of vlc on Android. Have used this a long time on Linux for the pc and this doesn't disappoint. One big annoyance - small-window videos, the player window will sometimes just close after some minutes. (Galaxy Tab A, Lollipop). And, yes, I understand this is a port from Linux, but a bit better adaptation to mobile platform is in order imho - player forgets last play point betw. closes/opens, & play speed goes back to 1x when bringing to fg or fullscreen. Otherwise 5-star app.
  • September 4, 2015
    Cant play movies from digicam :(
  • September 30, 2017
    Good update but not showing the sd card songs in audio
  • September 30, 2016
    Great trouble free player Works consistently and will play any file I throw at it. Only thing lacking is no Dynamic Range Compression like what's offered on the desktop version of VLC.
  • September 30, 2016
    It plays video and music just fine. It claims to support NFS but it doesn't seem to work properly. I tried to get it to access my network drive shared via NFS but it says the directory is empty. There's so little information about NFS support on VLC, not sure if it's expecting a certain flag from the server.
  • September 3, 2018
    HOW ABOUT YOU JUST PLAY VIDEO!!! Video player is great but the audio player sucks. VLC needs to stop trying to be everything else and just focus on what it's good at and thats playing videos. P.S. The video casting from this app is the bomb....
  • September 3, 2018
    Best of media players on Google Play! Didn't seen such quality for open source software ever in my life. It's much, much better and user friendly than any of popular commercial players available. And, must important part of this story is... No bloatware!.. Well worty the price!.. But wait.... ITS FREE!!!
  • September 3, 2018
    Overall this app is hands down the best. The only reason I'm giving four stars is because the recent update has given me problems if the scren orientation changes when playing a video. It's not seamless, it noticeably goes black then the video and the video also goes back 1-2 seconds so the audio will repeat. Same for PiP. I can't use it because it's impossible to get back to the app in landscape. It only goes in portrait and trying to go into landscape after PiP just makes the app go back to PiP.
  • September 3, 2018
    Best of media players on Google Play! Didn't seen such quality for open source software ever in my life. It's much, much better and user friendly than any of popular commercial players available. And, must important part of this story is... No bloatware!.. Well worty the price!.. But wait.... ITS FREE!!!
  • September 3, 2017
    It freezes when watching a movie
  • September 3, 2016
    No videos are being displayed Anyhelp for my issue? Because i was palying some movies but nothing comes out, it's just the audio and all i can see is gray screen. I even tried it to play in my laptop it's working fine, it's just the app itself.
  • September 3, 2016
    So many issues It lacks the ability to play directory which contains mutiple levels of subdirectories on my network storage. It plays directory only if in it directly are the video/audio files. I have to play folder by folder. Also the notification about playback error always close the player so when a playlist is being played it wont let next video to continue once pressed close button... Without pressing it we cannot see the video. Disable errors option would be nice.
  • September 3, 2015
    I like it but I love this application and the eq but one problem ... It's crashed after play the song ...
  • September 3, 2015
    Your logo!! Please change your logo, it looks like some malfunctioning file or a virus. Make it a little more elegant and pleasant to the eyes.
  • September 3, 2015
    Esha I just love to use vlc.
  • September 3, 2015
    How to control play speed... ! Is it hvng in it?
  • September 3, 2015
    Some of the videos played with no sound..
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