[Android Apps and Games] Nick Fury:
I've put this thread here to give you guys a variety of Video Players that you can use. I, like many of you, don't like using the Stock Video Players because it hasn't got the ability to customize it the way we'd like, so we'd like more of a choice. So rather than having to find them all over the place, I will keep everything here in one place.

If you notice any information in this guide which is incorrect, or any bad links, let me know and I'll fix it as soon as possible. Also, I know that there are a load that aren't on this list, so if there are some which aren't on the list but you think they should be, let me know and I'll look into them and update the list.

If you've found this guide useful, rather than posting thanks, simply hit the 'Thanks' button.

All download links will be in the 2nd post.

If you are stuck deciding which Android Music Player to choose from then please check out my other thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1844199

MX Player

Description:

MX Player - The best way to enjoy your movies.

Features include:

a) HARDWARE DECODING - With new h/w decoder, more videos can take benefit from hardware acceleration.

b) MULTI-CORE DECODING - MX Player is the first Android video player that performs multi-core decoding. According to the test results on dual-core devices, it shows up to 70% performance improvement than single-core devices.

c) PINCH TO ZOOM - Easily zoom in and out by pinching and swiping across screen.

d) SUBTITLE SCROLL - Scroll on subtitle text and playback position will be adjusted to match previous or next subtitle timing.

e) KIDS LOCK - Keep your kids entertained without having to worry about making calls or touching other apps. (plugin required)

f) ANDROID 4.1 - Fully supports Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.

MoboPlayer

Description:

Enjoy Your Video.

The best video player on Android! Watch any of your videos on a phone without conversion, anytime and anywhere.

We feature the best playback experience and quality.

Features include:

Our video player supports:

All video formats (need to choose "software decoding" mode in most cases)

Popular subtitle formats such as SRT, ASS, and SAA

Subtitles built in MKV, MPV, MOV, and others

Multi-audio streams and multi-subtitles

Playlists and continuous play on same type files

Videos streamed through HTTP, RTSP protocols

Media libraries and sort videos by type

Thumbnail displays of videos

VPlayer Video Player

Description:

The best video player for Android.

VPlayer 1.x is the next generation of VPlayer, which brings experimental HW accelerated decoding and rendering to HD MKV/AVI/MOV/FLV/TS/M4V/3GP for most Android devices.

Access your NAS/Wifi/UPnP/DLNA/DVR/Dropbox/Facebook/Gmail videos from VPlayer seamlessly!!!

Play Youtube videos and Vimeo videos directly in VPlayer!

This is a free trial for 7 days with full features. Please buy 'VPlayer Unlocker' to continue use VPlayer.

VPlayer is a HW accelerated Media player for android. It use HW video decoder at various containers and audio codecs combination.

Dual Core/High end devices ( Sensation , Galaxy S/S2 , Nexus-S ) can play 720p even 1080p MKV/AVI/MOV/FLV/TS/M4V/3GP.

VPlayer drains less bettery than SW based players such as MX Video Player, MoboPlayer.

ICS devices can play 1080p files with full HW accelerations, Honeycomb tablets can play 720p MKV with Full HW accelerations.

If you use MIUI, CM7 or unofficial ROMs that can not play MKV/FLV/MOV/AVI using default player, VPlayer is the best solution.

Features include:

Formats

- AVI,MOV,MKV,FLV,AVI,3GP,3G2,ASF,WMV,MP4,M4V,TP,TS,MTP,M2T

Video Codecs

- HW : MPEG-4,H.264,H.263

- SW : MPEG-4,H.264,RMVB,XVID,MS MPEG-4,VP6,H.263,MPEG-1,MPEG-2

Audio Codecs

- AAC,Vorbis,FLAC,MP3,MP2,WMA

- Mutitle audtio tracks support

Subtitle

- (Advanced) SubStation Alpha(.ssa/.ass), SAMI(.smi), SubViewer(.sub), Subrip(.srt), MicroDVD(.sub), MPL2(.txt)

- MKV subtitle extraction supported

- Unicode/Multibyte charset supported.

- Mutiple subtitle tracks support

- Increased subtitle readability with thicker border and shadow around text.

DicePlayer

Description:

* If you have problems , please uninstall and re-install diceplayer.

HW Accelerated Video Player with Playback speed control and Network support.

Features include:

* POP-UP Play

* Network Support : Windows Share / FTP / HTTP

* Multiple audio track

* Multiple subtitle track : external sub also suppoted.

* HW Accelerations : no limitations like a network , containers.

Formats

- AVI,MOV,MKV,FLV,AVI,3GP,3G2,ASF,WMV,MP4,M4V,TS,MTP,M2TS

Playback speed control

- up to x2.0 ( on HW )

- audio pitch correction support

Subtitle format

- SSA,SMI,SRT, VoBSub (beta)

- MKV/MP4 embedded subtitle supported

- Unicode/Multibyte charset supported.

BSPlayer FREE

Description:

Ultimate video player for your smartphone, give it a try - you won't regret it!

BSPlayer FREE is the best hardware accelerated video player for Android smartphones and tablet PCs.

Features include:

- background playback in popup window (video and audio)

- hardware accelerated video playback - increases speed and reduces battery consumption*

- Support for almost all media files (video and audio player), such as: avi, divx, flv, mkv, mov, mpg, mts, mp4, m4v, rmvb, wmv, 3gp, mp3... and streaming content such as RTMP, RTSP, MMS (tcp, http), HTTP Live stream, HTTP.

- Multiple audio streams and subtitles.

- Playlist support and various playback modes.

- External and embedded subtitles ssa/ass, srt, sub...

- Find subtitles automatically (mobile data or wi-fi must be enabled to work)

- Playback media files such as videos and mp3's directly via Wi-Fi from your LAN shared drives/folders (such as external USB drives, Samba (SMB/CIFS) shared drives, PC shared folders, NAS servers (Synology and others)) - no need to convert video files and copy media files to SD card anymore!

- Playback files directly from uncompressed RAR files and much more!

Super Video, Floating & Popup

Description:

FREE Popup Floating Video with re-size, move window, two multi-window play-back.

Super Video, Floating!

█ YouTube feature is not working now.

YouTube has change the API, it will make the Super Video's YouTube feature not working now. It will take some times to survey the new method. Don't buy the pro license if you just want to use the YouTube feature.

█ The Best Popup Video Player.

Full Popup Floating Video with re-size, move window, two multi-windows play-back. Better operation experience, support subtitle and FREE in the popup video technique.

█ DEMO VIDEO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cenFDf72aI

█ Introduction

The "Super Video, Floating!" is an innovation video playback software for Android OS. It has a pop-up floating window system that can show the video on the top of your screen. In other words, you can watch your video content in any application. You can watch the video and do something else at the same time!

Features include:

☆ Popup Video Player.

☆ Simple Widget

☆ Multi-Window Video Player.

☆ Full Subtitle Support for Video Playback.

☆ Friendly and Simply User Inferface with Grid, List and 3D Gallery.

☆ 100% NO AD, Made in Taiwan.

☆ Support Vitamio Software Decoder to view the more format (like MPG, RM, RMVB, FLV, MKV ... etc) video file with floating player. (Need the Vitamio Plug-in and Android 2.3 later)

Wondershare Player

Description:

All-in-one media player to "Discover latest videos to watch online & offline"

Wondershare Player is an all-in-one Video Player & Video Discovery to "Discover latest videos to watch online & offline", no need for other players or codecs.

Features include:

* Watch Videos Later

Sometimes, you may be interrupted suddenly when you are enjoying a movie; or frustrated by the network connection. Now, don't be upset, you can add it in the "Watch Later" Queue, to watch it later without a data plan. Wondershare Player can download streaming videos from CNN, NY Times, Ted Talk, NASA TV, Funny or Die.

* Best Video Player for Android

Wondershare Player plays smoothly without any problem no matter the codec or format.

It supports all the video and audio formats, including FLV, AVI, MKV, WMV, MOV, RM, RMVB, ASF, M2TS, MP3, WMA, AAC, FLAC, M2TS, VOB, F4V, 3GP, etc.

It supports subtitles embedded video files, supports subtitles as SubStation Alpha(.ssa/.ass), SAMI(.smi/.sami), SubRip(.srt), MicroDVD(.sub/.txt), SubViewer2.0(.sub), MPL2(.mpl/.txt), PowerDivX(.psb/.txt), TMPlayer(.txt).

It plays DVD folders from SD card directly with DVD menu navigation.

It supports continuous playback and can automatically remember your last played position.

* And Much More

RealPlayer®

Description:

RealPlayer, the popular media player for music, video and photos provides features allowing you to customize your music listening experience. Supported in 9 languages, popular features include an intuitive user interface, widgets, equalizer, lastFM scrobbling, metadata editing, optimized graphics for high-res devices and more, so you can listen to music your way. This all-in-one player is brought to you by RealNetworks, dedicated to bringing you the ultimate media experience.

Features include:

• Music, videos and photos all in one place

• Available in nine languages

• Optimized graphics for high-res devices

• Playlists

• lastFM scrobbling

• Voice commands for search

• Control playback when phone is locked

• Sharing on popular social media sites

• Move application to SD card

• Set your favorite song as a ringtone

• Headphones controls

• Auto bookmarking of videos

• Home screen widgets to control media

• Access any file format your device supports

Additional Features – available through an in-app upgrade

• Graphic equalizer with ability to save custom settings

• Metadata discovery using the Gracenote database

• Manual metadata editing

• Cross fading for a seamless music experience

• RealAudio and RealVideo (rmvb) support

• No advertisements

VLC Beta (NEON version)

Description:

VLC 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 a BETA version of the port to the Android™ platform. It is intended for power users and hackers. This version is not perfectly stable and is slower than the final version.

Features include:

NOTA BENE

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This version is ONLY for devices with a CPU ARMv7 that will support NEON. Other devices will be supported by other applications, very soon.

Features

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VLC for Android™ plays most local video and audio files, as well as network streams (including adaptive streaming), like the desktop version of VLC.

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.

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

Missing Features

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As this is an early BETA version, a lot of things are not finished, but will change for the final release:

• The basic User Interface will change;

• Performance improvements are missing;

• Hardware decoding works only with a limited set of hardware;

• Other unknown issues.

Permissions

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• It needs hardware control, in order to change the audio volume;

• It needs phone calls control, in order to pause the music when someone is calling;

• It needs full Internet access to open network streams;

• It needs to be able to read logs, during the beta version, to understand the issues;

• It needs to get access to the SD card storage, in order to allow deletion of files.

• It needs to get access to the settings, in order to change your audio ringtone.

Act 1 Video Player

Description:

The best video experience on Android!

THE BEST PLAYER for video media on your sdcard. Lots of unique features!

Full paid version available; Select "View More Applications" on this screen to find it. This trial version is fully functional but limited to two minutes of continuous video playback for evaluation purposes.

Features include:

✓ Playlists (with random play)

✓ Thumbnails (only on devices with Android 2.0 or newer)

✓ Video zoom options (aspect, full, custom)

✓ SRT subtitle support

✓ Bookmarks (up to 20 for each video)

✓ Home screen shortcuts to videos and playlists

✓ Play in the background while you run other apps or turn off the screen

✓ A-B repeat

✓ Video sharing

✓ On-screen clock, timer, and battery meter

✓ Seeking by seekbar, screen gestures, trackball, and D-pad

✓ Screen brightness and button brightness controls (buttons on Froyo only)

✓ Resume points remembered for all your videos

✓ Video sorting and grouping options

✓ Delete/rename videos

✓ Video streaming

✓ Lots of shortcuts, conveniences, and configurations

HD Video Player Free

Description:

HD Video Player is the best video player and mp3 music player for Android.

Watch tv shows, movies, music videos as well as locally stored FLV and SWF flash video files. (You don't need to install Adobe Flash Player Plugin.)

Features include:

Video: mp4, wmv, avi, mkv, dv, rm, mp, mpeg, flv, divx, swf, dat, h264, h263, h261, 3gp, 3gpp, asf, mov, m4v, ogv, vob, vstream, ts.

Audio: mp3, wma, ogg, mp2, flac, aac, ac3, amr, pcm, wav, au, aiff, 3g2, m4a, astream.

It saves your time and disk space to transcoding or format converting. Just put your video on sdcard or click the URL in browser to watch it.

Support sub: srt, ass, ssa, sub,txt, utf, smi, rt,aqt, jss, js, utf8, utf-8.

It load external subtitle with same name of video automatically and support .m3u playlist.

Seaman Video Player Free

Description:

Seaman Video Player is a powerful video player and mp3 music player for Android.

By using this free mobile media player, you can watch tv shows, movies, music videos on your Android phone as well as locally stored FLV flash video files (no need to install Adobe Flash Player Plugin).

It can handle all popular video formats including AVI, DiVX, Xvid, MOV, MP4, WMV, RMVB, MKV, ASF, MPG, FLV Flash Video as well as audio formats AAC, AC3, MP3, and more.

Being based on the FFmpeg project, optimized for mobile devices, and highly optimized core video and mp3 player, Seaman Video Player has become more popular in the mobile video and mp3 player market.

No need to install any video codecs, all video and audio codecs are already built-in.

It's capable of playing incomplete or damaged video files by skipping the damaged frames. It can also play partially downloaded files.

Features include:

Audio Formats:

MP3, MP2, AAC, WMA (1,2,3), Midi *, WAV, OGG, Speex, WAVPACK, TTA, FLAC, MPC, AMR, ADPCM, ALaw, MuLaw, G.729, GSM

Video Formats:

H.264 (AVC), AVCHD, MKV, MPEG-1, MPEG-4 part 2 (ASP), DivX, XviD, WMV (7,8,9), Theora *, Dirac *, MJPEG, MSVIDEO (1,2 , 3), rv (10,20,30,40), SVQ1, SVQ3

Multiplex format Formats:

FLV, Matroska, ASF, ASX, AVI, PS,, 3GPP, MOV, MPEG-4, OGM, NSV，rmvb/rm

Here are some key features of Seaman Video Player:

- Fluently play videos on mobile phone with no more transcoding: Seaman Video Player plays almost all video files on your PC, such as avi, rmvb, flv, mkv, etc. It's like watching live tv on your android.

- Best Experience: With better performance, higher image quality, higher resolution! Seaman Video Player will reform your video experience on mobile devices! Watch tv shows, movies and music videos.

- Dual Core Playback: Beside the high performance engine built-in, Seaman Video Player also makes the most of the OpenCORE inside Android system; you may switch the engine freely.

- Handy Features: resume playing, subtitle support, battery prompt over the video view.

Requirements:

HTC machine (Android 1.6 - 2.3.3) test has been passed and has not tested other models, if any problem, please provide the model name, the system specific information, we will solve.

Moai FLV Player

Description:

Simple FLV Player on SD-Card.

Moai FLV Player is simple FLV Player on SD-Card.

need Adobe AIR2.7 and Android2.2.

When you select the flv file from File Manager, you can launch the app.

To enable this feature, please set the following settings Mime Type of File Manager.

flv.....video/x-flv

f4v.....video/mp4

Video Player

Description:

Videos is the best video organizer.

Features include:

* Sort by name, date, duration

* Thumbnails

No ads

Videos is the best video organizer for Android. Organize and play videos from your SD card and phone. Videos was designed to allow quick access to all your videos. Videos integrates with your default video player or any other video player you have installed.

* Sort your videos by date added, name or duration.

* Sort ascending or descending order

* Thumbnails of videos (only on Android v2.0 or newer)

* Name of video

* Length of video

* bookmark

* Remembers exit point for each video

* Will play all h264 & 3gp videos and any other video format your phone will support. Please check your phones documentation for full list of supported formats.

TPlayer (Video Player)

Description:

The best way to enjoy your movies.

The most powerful video player on Android!

Our player supports:

All video formats and protocols.

Best playback experience and quality with dual-engine.

Movies auto-detected and listed with thumbnail and details.

Manage your movies easily.

Features include:

Enjoy or download plenty of web videos free (when sky browser has been installed), including:

e.g. Youku, Tudou, Qiyi, Sohu video, Phoenix video, QQLive, Ku6, CCTV, PPlive, Yinyuetai, Sina video, LeTV, 56, 163, etc.

Mainstream handset based on android 2.x/3.x/4.x and Armv5/v6/v7 chipsets inside.

Optimize for your CPU fully.

aVia Media Player

Description:

aVia simplifies accessing personal media with one, easy to use, media player.

With aVia you can play, manage, and share your music, video, and photos from all of your Android-connected devices so that your favorite media is available anytime, anywhere.

Features include:

- Optimizations for Android tablets and smartphones, Google TV, and Kindle Fire devices

- Play music, videos, and view photos through a variety of sources including social media websites (Facebook and Google+)

- Easily Fling media between personal devices

- DLNA streaming capabilities allow for sharing between compatible devices within a network

- DLNA server capabilities built into the app

- Easily create playlists and rate content using the intuitive interface

- Support for video scaling and subtitles

- Support for video codes and audio

SuperPlayer Video Player

Description:

SuperPlayer Video Player, best and simplest video player to enjoy your movies

SuperPlayer - The best and simplest video player to enjoy your movies on Android platform.

Features include:

SuperPlayer can play almost every kinds of video format, including avi, flv, 3gp, mp4, rm, rmvb, mpg, mov, asf, mkv, webm ...

SuperPlayer supports multi-language subtitles, supports srt, ass, sub, smi format and video's embed subtitle.

SuperPlayer can play video smoothly, we use hardware decoder if there is one, otherwise we use software decorder (thanks to FFMPEG).

SuperPlayer is very easy to use: copy videos to sdcard, launch SuperPlayer, scan the videos and watch it. You don't need any setting at all.

(The first time you scan videos, it may take some time if there are many files on your SDCard).

Simple MP4 Video Player

Description:

Play your videos (mp4 and flv files) from your SD-card

with this simple player. This player supports only mp4 and flv video formats. Subtitles are not supported yet.

You don't need to install Flash® Player Plugin, any other codec or

any other plugin to use this app to play videos (flv and mp4 video formats).

Please support development of new features by clicking the +1 button.

[******IMPORTANT******]

This free app is ad supported and contains ads in the notification tray which is not a virus. The ads help us create and maintain these free apps for you. This app doesn't contain any malware, virus or spyware. Please, respect the developer work. If you don't like notification ads, you can just uninstall the app, opt-out at http://opt.leadbolt.com/ or buy the paid version of this app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.br.com.bitlabs.VideoPlayerAdFree

[******IMPORTANT******]

[Minimum Requirements]

Need Android 2.2 or superior. ARMv7 processor with vector FPU, minimum 550MHz, OpenGL ES 2.0, H.264 and AAC HW decoders and 256MB of RAM.

[Known Issues]

- Some Asus Transformer devices may play videos without audio.

- Devices with low processor power may experience poor video quality (delays).

[Usage Instructions]

1) Put your favorite mp4 and flv video files on your SD Card.

2) Open Simple MP4 Video Player.

3) Navigate to the video file you want to select.

4) Select the video file to watch.

☆ Stick it! (Pop-up Player)

Description:

Do you want to keep using your device while watching movies ? Stick it! is the way to go! Enjoy the desktop experience on your Android device!

!!! YOUTUBE SUPPORT: READ THE FAQ !!!

Stick it! is the only video player of its kind : it can live on top of your screen, above any of your other applications and allow you to use your device’s other features (browsing, emailing, texting...) while watching your favorite movie! Impress your friends with the MultiView™ feature !

Features include:

☆ MultiView™ : watch multiple movies simultaneously !

☆ Truly floating player : move, resize and minimize supported

☆ Background playing

☆ YouTube support (beta)

☆ Supports most video formats

☆ Streaming support (MMS, RTSP, HTTP)

☆ Built-in themes (Windows 7, Mac OSX, more to come)

☆ Built-in file browser