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 –––––––– 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 –––––––––––– 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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April 14, 2024
Frustratingly obnoxious! The app keeps starting playing music when I don't want any music. For instance, it will start playing if I take off my headphones and put them next to the phone (draining all the battery and annoying people sitting nearby). There was also the autopsy with Android Auto. It seems to be updates that they forced on the users, and I couldn't find a way to prevent it. It is so frustrating and annoying that I am deleting the app and switching to something else.
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Ken Rogers
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April 21, 2024
VLC "takes the cake” for one of the most irritating apps out there. Its really to bad because its technical features are outstanding. The real issue is once you've played a media file it continusly repeats. Turn your phone off and on, change to car mode and back and just randomly it keeps repeating it over and over. Even force closing the app doesn't keep it silent for long. Its hard to imagine the logic behind this behavior but it runis an otherwise good app. A real PITA!
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Michael Pechner
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May 9, 2024
I amlooking for a app that plays the music on my phone. Lets me create a playlist. Ever action causes a rescan. Will see the music to play. But to create a play list it want to recan again. It never lets me create a playlist. Yes in settings I unchecked the recan on startup. But it spends all time rescanning. So in essence it will not do what I want so useless, so 1 star.
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What's new
* Fix media controls not working after some time on Android 13 * Fix audio notification icon transparency * Fix some Android Auto and Android TV behaviors * Fix opening from other apps * Bluetooth fixes * Minor interface fixes * Crash fixes