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10 Best Android Video / Movie Player Apps for Free | 2013
Best Video Player for Android
There are millions of apps in Google Play store ( Android Market Place ). The number is increasing day by day. It is a daunting task to find out the 10 best Android movie player apps among the thousands. Here is a list, being prepared for you, for your convenient. The list is an updated one. All these apps mentioned here are free-though some have their pro paid versions but their free light versions are quiet good.
Though the stock Android video player is not that, still we always need some apps for extra functions and conveniences. There are cool android video player apps which will enhance your movie watching experiences manifolds on your Android phone or tablet.
mVideoPlayer
This Android video player has its huge fan base too. This player has built-in subtitle search option from OpenSubtitles.org , EngSub.net etc. If you know these sites then you can be certain that subtitle of almost any movie will be available. It has a very beautiful UI. There are a lot of options and settings on it. So, if you are a geek you will simply love it.
MX Player:
This video player for Android is very popular. This Android Movie player app is technologically advanced. It supports double core processing of the latest Android devices resulting great rendering and no lagging while playing HD movies.
The most three strongest features of this app is - i) It supports wide range of movie formats, ii) it supports a variety of hardware, that is why most of the Android phones are fully supported by it, and iii) it is totally free with no suppressed feature.
The player uses a technique called "multi-core video decoding". While rendering videos the player can use all the cores of a double or quadruple core processor simultaneously. That is why it can render videos pretty fast with highest quality possible.
MX Player Video Review
Mobo Video Player Pro
Mobo Video Player Pro has support for a wide range video codec. Use it if you have become bored of your mobile handset’s stock video player.
This player is a bit choppy while playing HD movies. But this problem is not much noticeable on the phones or tablets with more than 1GB of RAM.
Do you enjoy watching long videos on a mobile phone?
YouTube:
YouTube is for, well, for YouTube. This is the official YouTube player from Google. With this player you can enjoy in-page playback. It has a personalization option to load your own video feed.
But all YouTube videos are not available for this mobile app.
Easy Video Player:
Easy Video Player claims to detect and play all the popular video formats. It is HD enabled. The most noteworthy feature of Easy Video Player is that it supports Wi-Fi file transferring.It supports hiding Video files facility.
If you play a video on it it can resume it later from the point you have stopped watching.
VPlayer:
VPlayer is a very good android video player app. It has a wide range of supported formats. It uses HW accelerated decoding and rendering of movies and videos. As it uses hardware acceleration, it can play high bit-rate HD movies quiet smoothly.
You can play streamed videos here. YouTube is supported. By copying the video links you can enjoy streaming movies from other sites like Vimeo or Metacafe. You can also watch videos from Facebook or Dropbox in it. I
t has DLNA support too. So, you can play videos via Wi-Fi broadcast from another DLNA supported device.
RockPlayer:
RockPlayer supports almost all the formats. This media player has a lot of functions It can trans-code videos to save valuable space. That means it has the capability of converting videos.
Not only the videos from SD card but also online streaming video is also supported by this player. It supports most of the Android devices available today. There is not much bug or crash report too.
RealPlayer
RealPlayer is the android version of the famous RealPlayer for PC and Mac. RealPlayer can play Music and videos and is also can open photos. It has an intuitive user interface. It has a great playlist editor. It can play folders. The scrolling is fast in this app.
There is a home screen widget which shows the currently playing track and stop, play etc controls. There is a simple lock screen too.
The price of the premium version is $4.99. It has the support of streaming .RAM and .RM files.
-The photo browser is not very impressive. It has no pinch to zoom support. Perhaps, the coders has forgotten to implement the code. It just only have zoom plus and minus buttons. There is an annoyingly slow animation when you sweep on the screen.
Zimly
Zimly is cool video and media player. Zimly’s main problem is that it do not have any sound equalizer and sound produced through is quiet flat. How can anybody watch a good movie clip with mediocre sound reproduction?
arcMedia
This media player has a wide format support like avi, divx, flv, mkv, mov, mp4, m2v, m4v, rmvb, etc.
These are the top ten Android Video Player Apps available for free. Try these on your Android mobile and check all or any one of these by yourself.
