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[Android Apps and Games] kschang:
Works fine on Droid with CM612, my favorite thus far.

Review of all the AVI players for Android available on the market

http://hubpages.com/hub/Comparison-of-AVI-Video-Players-on-Motorola-Droid-and-other-Android-phones
[Android Apps and Games] zmelkoow:
Hello!

The player works great, I have just one question.

I am using it to play network stream. Is it possible to bookmark the opened URL or make some kind of playlist so that I don't have to enter URL each time when I want to open it.

I tried making pls and m3u playlists but with no success.

THX

Z
[Android Apps and Games] tgwaste:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/vplayer-alpha/me.abitno.vplayer

guess he doesnt want to keep it FREE anymore... lol
[Android Apps and Games] schriss:
LOOL I remember when it was supposed to be always free, forever free ;-) But in the end its a lot of effort and time, so why not :-)

Sent from Desire Z
[Android Apps and Games] Oreynid:
I'd be happy to try and buy the application as soon as the Dell Streak is supported. Can't hate on the developer wanting to start charging for his time invested into support, software development is a pain.
[Android Apps and Games] vud911:
Yea, I wouldn't mind dropping $2-$5 for this app. Its a necessity at the moment. :D

On the side note, I hope vplayer will better support VOB files and soft encoded subtitles in the future.
[Android Apps and Games] mik101:
They just added Streak support to Rockplayer -- try the free version on market.

I'll be sorry to see this not be free. I've been using it constantly since it was first released. BUT if it's inexpensive why not support the development?
[Android Apps and Games] damac:
Very good media player. Plays most video files without a problem. Here are few things to report (might've been reported before).

Issue: Problem with seeking some files, particularly some wmv (jumps to beginning).

Missing/LikeToHave: Variable speed of playback.
[Android Apps and Games] amai5399:
Hope to see subtitle support soon
[Android Apps and Games] dirkyd3rk:
This guy is a liar(abitno), he said this player would be free forever then he couldn't keep his promise. Now its a trial wtf. Way to NOT keep your word. I would have no problem buying a donation version but since you LIED you don't get a penny. Have fun with vplayer ill be waiting on the FREE vlc player when it hits the market.
[Android Apps and Games] andrewsoong:
Free forever and now charging? Great way to watch your app rating plummet.
[Android Apps and Games] geokilla:
Where do you guys see that you have to pay for it?

Found it: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=897967

I'm disappointed that ABitNo is going back on his word. However, I appreciate his work and time he put in this app. I do feel that his post over there is a bit... wrong. A lot of people don't visit XDA Developers so a lot of people find his app off App Brain and the Market. There is no way for people to send them a crash log or donation or anything of that sort. Heck even his site doesn't have a button to send him these kinds of things.
[Android Apps and Games] Vulpix:
There's a donate version on the market. Doesn't seem like that is helping him.
[Android Apps and Games] vud911:
Honestly, I'm not surprised at the change of mind. I'm not sure how many of you read it, but when the application was first posted, he did had a story about working off a company computer and linked to a donation link. That kind of tip me off this would eventually happen if donation doesn't meet his expectations. The donation version was awfully priced high at almost $10 back then.

But this is hands down the best video player on the market at the moment. At ~$2 price point, it isn't that bad, especially if it speeds up development. Anyway, I bought it :).
[Android Apps and Games] Timur0409:
Does not work on Android 2.3 (HTC HD2)
[Android Apps and Games] mannyb:
I would gladly have paid 2-3 dollars for this player had he only been honest and true to his word. Don't go around saying it will be free forever if you're not gonna keep your word - no matter how good your intentions are. I can't stand being lied to.
[Android Apps and Games] dirkyd3rk:
Lol same here his reasoning why he is charging is stupid; umm I can't buy a nexus s to dev for it' gtfoh lol this app is already going down hill vlc is coming
[Android Apps and Games] ABitNo:
I put the notice in market

"Droid 2 /Droid X users please send your log to help debug"

but they can't read it, just give me a feedback of 1 star
[Android Apps and Games] vud911:
You really don't have to owe anyone an explanation. Its your app, you can do whatever you want with it. But I do notice the app rating is being downvote an awful lot. Must have saw hundreds of 1 star after this change.

Oh yes, is embedded soft encoded subtitle on the agenda for vplayer eventually? Can't watch animes without it :)
[Android Apps and Games] blunden:
I agree. If you know you might have to charge for it in the future, don't say it will always be free. Now you basically abused that wording to potentially get donations and boost the ratings. :-( It's a matter of principal.
[Android Apps and Games] anoneemooz:
I'm a bit neutral. I appreciate his work but yes I do understand why many are peeved when he backed out on his free forever statement. Whatever his reasons may be for making it a paid app now is beyond us really and it's either we like it and continue to support or we move on to another player (what with the VLC app being released really soon). No need to go about with lectures on a person's principles. What's done is done. If he continues development at a reasonable speed then good for him and for his continued supporters. I do recommend however he put up on the app page his apologies and reasons and such. It does seem a bit underhanded to disguise it as an update. Some people don't check changelogs first. They just click update all to update their apps in one go and then maybe check the changelog later. Hope dev learns from these off putting mistakes of his so that he can regain trust and such of end users. I hope his app continues to deliver so that he can prove to his users that paying for the app not only supports him but gives us a very good product as well.

No more drama.

Comment on the app: It works great but can be a bit choppy when playing HD .avi and .mp4 files. The audio runs fine but the video stutters and all. Hope this is fixed soon!

I'll wait for VLC app and see how it is before deciding whether to purchase this or not.
[Android Apps and Games] vud911:
Same. Strange that your avi/mp4/HD videos are having the choppiness issue. I use vplayer on my Samsung Vibrant and have none of these issues, but VOB is another story.

I remember I did use to have the choppiness/audio desync issue but it turned out to be the ROM. Reinstalling it made it ran perfectly. HD video works fine too. Tested up to 720p.
[Android Apps and Games] mik101:
And it doesnt have the annoying pop-up like rockplayer does in the free version (mostly a pain if you use it as the system player).
[Android Apps and Games] Tynen:
It won't let me install on my 2.1 android devices. Is it really 2.x support???
[Android Apps and Games] metapolis:
Hi, Witz wildfire i can't find it in the market. Is it possible to post it here?
[Android Apps and Games] E_man5112:
Does not play mp4's that well, like the videos downloaded from youtube, very stuttery. Rockplayer plays them fine. This is on a samsung captivate, so it has the brawn to play them.

Also, on the UI front, I have two requests.

One, is there any way we can have the option to only show user selected folders, rather than every folder I don't have movies in?

Two, some video players I've used in the past allow you to swipe the screen left and right to rewind and fastfoward. I'm not talking about the time location bar, but outside of that, for fine tunes location control. Otherwise, lets face it. Trying to control where you are in a two hour long movie with a status bar that is rather short is very difficult.

Otherwise, every other video I've thrown at it seem to play very well, with no popup. I look forward to seeing where this goes.
[Android Apps and Games] the7thson:
Awesome! Any plans to add streaming support? So I can point the file browser to a computer on my network and play files directly from there? I miss this functionality from TCPMP on windows mobile and haven't found anything on Android that supports this :(

Thanks and keep up the great work!
[Android Apps and Games] cypis:
Can anyone post here apk?

I have official roger 2.1 and I can't find it on market.
[Android Apps and Games] Chronos12:
It's awesome. But, I tested Queens Blade II 1080p mkv and it's buggy, lag.

Fix 1080p plus we need anti pixel, anti blurry.
[Android Apps and Games] ABitNo:
Yes, but your device cpu must support neon.
[Android Apps and Games] wmdirk:
Can't find it on the Market either...

Does anyone now if this works on the HTC Legend Azure ROM (CyanogenMod based).

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] ABitNo:
Thanks for your suggestions.

For your first request, I will add this feature

The second one, I shall add it as an optional feature.

Thank you again
[Android Apps and Games] ABitNo:
Of course, I've metioned it in my post. "streaming support and hardware decoding"

Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] ABitNo:
If legend use the same CPU as Hero, then VPlayer won't work on it.

But VPLAYER IS ON ALPHA STAGE. AT LAST, VPLAYER WILL SUPPORT LEGEND
[Android Apps and Games] KukurikU:
thanks for sharing!

i can confirm that the app is available on the Market and i downloaded and install it without problems.

did some test with some files available on my HTC Desire with Froyo and it looks very promising.

i'll keep testing and please remind to all the ranters that this is an alpha version.

don't give up!:D
[Android Apps and Games] sowed:
thanks for your work!

i'm waiting for agood player for android :D
[Android Apps and Games] Infinitum:
Does the Wildfire support Neon then?
[Android Apps and Games] ABitNo:
I think Wildfire, Hero, Legend belongs to the same series, so they have the same CPU which doesn't have neon support.
[Android Apps and Games] radite:
i have down load it from the market on my milestone xt720 n it's work to play flv file that i had down load it be for from you tube....

thanks bro...
[Android Apps and Games] faugusztin:
The reason why none of us on <2.2 devices can't see this app is because on market it's marked as 2.2 only :

http://www.appbrain.com/app/vplayer-alpha/me.abitno.vplayer

"Your device has Android 2.1. However this app is for Android version 2.2 and higher"

I'm trying to download it now from the author's homepage : http://abitno.me/

Edit: APK downloaded from the author's website, installed and running without problems on Motorola Milestone.
[Android Apps and Games] ABitNo:
NO. I target VPlayer's android:minSdkVersion="7", so Android 2.1 should be supported.

My milestone is 2.1, and I can find VPlayer in Android market.
[Android Apps and Games] faugusztin:
Then you maybe set the application as copy protected, because it is not showing up in my market on Milestone 2.1-update1 in Slovakia. Like all of the copy-protected free apps, this is missing too then.

Or you simply set the restricted set of countries, so none of the free market people can see it.
[Android Apps and Games] cskfelix:
i can play flv file but the video and the sound not telly....
[Android Apps and Games] anoneemooz:
I actually didn't have the problem at first when using vplayer but it just suddenly came up not sure why.. it had always been an audio-video desync issue for me but never the choppiness up until that happened. Updated my ROM last night and now the desync issues are gone on stock movie player but I have yet to try it on vplayer. I will soon though!
[Android Apps and Games] nEUTRon666:
Why do you want money now, for your player? I wouldn't have any problem with it, if you didn't advertise "it's free forever".... buying much apps, but i won't buy yours, just because you didn't stay to your word...really a shame...
[Android Apps and Games] ianmcquinn:
His explanation: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=897967

While the way it all happened isn't great (promising to always keep it free and then changing that only a couple months later), I don't have a problem with him wanting to charge for the software in general. The problem with free software is that often times people still expect a fairly high level of support. Once it becomes popular, the demand for support becomes even higher. For a software development house, this is expected and dealt with. For most Android developers though who are just coding on their spare time, it's unreasonable to be able to add requested features/support every phone, and it becomes frustrating when the software gets poorly reviewed for not doing so (one of the reasons he gave for making the change). Should he have made the promise to begin with? Probably not. Should he not be compensated one bit for what has probably felt like countless hours of mainly thankless coding effort? Probably not. (Not saying that it has been thankless, just that he's probably feeling that way because of the poor reviews he mentioned and the complaints of force closes without crash reports so he could try fixing them).

If I don't want to pay for the software, I will keep the previous version or use an alternative. By keeping the previous version, I know it's not supported (but since it was free to begin with, I didn't expect much to begin with). Just my two cents...
[Android Apps and Games] Udaw:
Nexus S, vplayer - last version.

Format : AVI

Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave

File size : 350 MiB

Duration : 41mn 22s

Overall bit rate : 1 184 Kbps

Video #0

ID : 0

Format : MPEG-4 Visual

Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5

Format settings, BVOP : Yes

Format settings, QPel : No

Format settings, GMC : No warppoints

Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)

Codec ID : XVID

Codec ID/Hint : XviD

Duration : 41mn 22s

Bit rate : 1 043 Kbps

Width : 624 pixels

Height : 352 pixels

Display aspect ratio : 16:9

Frame rate : 23.976 fps

Color space : YUV

Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0

Bit depth : 8 bits

Scan type : Progressive

Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.198

Stream size : 309 MiB (88%)

Writing library : XviD 1.2.1 (UTC 2008-12-04)

Audio #1

ID : 1

Format : MPEG Audio

Format version : Version 1

Format profile : Layer 3

Mode : Joint stereo

Mode extension : MS Stereo

Codec ID : 55

Codec ID/Hint : MP3

Duration : 41mn 22s

Bit rate mode : Variable

Bit rate : 128 Kbps

Channel(s) : 2 channels

Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz

Stream size : 37.9 MiB (11%)

Alignment : Aligned on interleaves

Interleave, duration : 24 ms (0.58 video frame)

Interleave, preload duration : 536 ms

+srt subtitles

Player quits after 3-4 min watching. Without any exceptions.

How can i help you to solve the bug ?
[Android Apps and Games] krukev:
I have Android now for 3 days. And this mobile since today (the other had a little defect). I searched for a video player, and found this topic.

I find it a shame that I can't try this app before buying it as how do I know if I like it.

Also he says he wants to people to pay because they blame him that this doesn't work, that doesn't work and then he wants money for it.

Then the people who use it will pay, so he can buy test mobiles. I understand that, but the people that are complaining are the ones that will go to another program.

I'll see.. maybe I buy it, but I first want to be sure it works correctly as I think it is weird to buy for a beta version.
[Android Apps and Games] vud911:
There's a trial version in the market. It will expire at some point. His 'beta' works better than all the other available players out.
[Android Apps and Games] selcux:
is vplayer support Turkish subtitle encoder
[Android Apps and Games] MordyT:
TBQH, i was testing this app for a long time. I think it was called alpha back then (could be wrong). I was hugely disappointed to find he just changed to paid. At least for users who have been testing with you for at least the past few months should not have to pay. I personally have provided crash logs back when it crashed for me. I have also donated in the past. But now I will move on to VLC when it is released - not because of the price, but because of the lie - Free Forever. Thanks ABitNo for the (former) great player, best of luck. If there was one way to cause every user who ever used your app to NOT recommend it and to lower their ratings, this way the way.
[Android Apps and Games] naenee:
I'm afraid I'll just keep using beta 4 myself until I find it somehow no longer does what I want it to do. Best of luck with your endeavours though, it seems you will need it.
[Android Apps and Games] GGXtreme:
This is the only video player for Android that was able to smoothly play some variable-framerate MKV's I had and still keep the audio and video in sync. With other players, hardware decoding is always out of sync and software decoding is too laggy. I do wish this had .ass and embedded subtitle support though (although it's a lot easier to extract the subtitles than to convert the video to constant-framerate).
[Android Apps and Games] onesolo:
x2!!!!

"Free forever..." What a liar.... hey and give us a favor, leave xda!!!

Let's see what VLC can bring anything usefull...
[Android Apps and Games] belchie:
I'm a little disappointed it's no longer free but I'm much more disappointed that the pay/trial version no longer works for me with Dreamdroid. I might be tempted to pay if it worked for me but it doesn't.
[Android Apps and Games] daveid:
I am getting pretty sick of all these posts about him being a liar, not sticking to his word, etc. Get over it people.

Haven't you ever started a project out that you thought would only occupy a little of your time, realized it would take up far more of your time, and changed your mind about how you would approach the project?

Has none of you ever got yourself into something and realized it was too much to take on? Probably, and probably most of you just abandoned that project entirely - which is another option Abitno had, but did not take. So he made a few mistakes... who doesn't? Are you perfect?

Let's run down those mistakes.

1. Thinking that he would be able to maintain this project in his spare time.

2. Thinking that donations would cover the time invested in this project (I think the problem with this was that the donation app was priced way too high, thus no donations were given).

3. Expecting XDA members to be understanding of his shortsightedness - which is all this was - a failure to properly gauge the amount of time/money required to keep this project running. And before you say, "It doesn't take money, just time", time is money. The time he is spending on writing this software, testing new code for new devices, etc. could be spent working on a real job for actual income.

4. Changing something that was free to something with a fee.

Ok, those are some mistakes. But, has anyone tried to see it from his perspective? How about looking at it from a business standpoint? He has no revenue from this product, surely he could have put advertisements in (but everyone would be complaining about the obnoxious advertisements). But a business decision had to be made, either abandon the project, or find a way to make it profitable. He chose to make it profitable, how he chose to do this was by making it a trial/purchase software. Maybe this was not the best choice, but it was his choice, as it is his product. Can you honestly tell me you would do any differently had you been in his shoes? When something that you do for free takes up so much of your time that it feels like you are loosing out by doing it, you have to re-evaluate what you are doing. That's called life, it's called "Good Business Practice", it happens all the time. Extra fees get added here and there, surcharges, usage fees, etc.

You are all whiny, entitled, brats.
[Android Apps and Games] Sixe:
Right now, I am unable to find VPlayer on the market. I've dowloaded it a couple time a couple today.

Could someone tell me if my phone is the issue?

If not, could some one give me a link for the trial version?

EDIT: Found it at code.google.com and was able to install it.
[Android Apps and Games] Synssins:
Agreed.

I lurk, and don't post much...

But I have to chime in here...

I manufacture wiring products for cars. When I started selling them, I was selling them for cost plus a small margin thinking that the demand would be low...

As I hand built these products, I started timing how long it took to make ONE complete product..

I had nearly 6 hours into one single product, and demand was through the roof. As a matter of fact, it took me nearly a year to catch up on back orders of the wiring harnesses I make.

About 4 weeks into the entire project, I opted to raise the price for new harnesses.

People went ape**** over me raising the price 25 dollars, which nowhere near covers the amount of labor I have into it.

Keep in mind, my wiring harnesses are better than OEM quality, guaranteed to fit the vehicle when installed following my directions, and will outlast the car.

The only other available product that would have done what my product does is quite literally 6 times the price, and is a "universal" that you have to modify to make fit, versus my direct "bolt-in" product.

Sense of entitlement indeed....

VPlayer, while still a little rough around the edges, is a solid core player for nearly everything I have thrown at it. I was fortunate enough to jump in on the free version, but would gladly pay two bucks for the app...

Would I expect free updates for life? No. But, if it is version 1.0, I would expect all minor version releases up to and including 1.99999, etc...

2.0 would have to provide some major reason to want to upgrade, and I would gladly pay another 2 bucks for that app..

I see people *****ing about the app developer wanting to move to a pay system.

He did not lie. He re-evaluated his time and effort, and determined that it was worth a little bit of money in his pocket, whether it is to buy an app to develop on, or to take the girlfriend to dinner on..

He stated his intentions, and people went ape****.

"OMG! You liar! I am going to uninstall your app and then ***** about it as far and wide as I can, and I'll wait for VLC player, yadda yadda yadda..."

He has the right to make that decision, and frankly I feel he deserves the money just because of the work he has put into the app thus far...

Would you rather not have the app at all and he can walk away? Or have someone who has invested the time and effort and knowledge into it that he has so far, and has the ability to improve the app?
[Android Apps and Games] phrozen87:
I think this post was well said. I can understand the frustration people have but I would venture to guess most who complain also never donated in the first place anyway (there are always some who did, but I find those people typically don't complain). Personally as soon as the sound bugs get worked out on the Droid 2 I don't have a problem getting a copy.
[Android Apps and Games] niksite:
You are not so correct on this point. The app was 'free forever' last year. This statement was in the app description section.

The app is not free now. 'Forever' is ended?

That's the cause of these 'liar!' exclamations around.

If you need politically correct sentence, it is 'false advertising'.

A lot of magazines has advertised vplayer for free just because of its free nature. It had five star rating and so big downloads count on android market just because of that.

The right decision for abitno may be just to leave this 'free forever' vplayer beta app alone and create new one, 'free trial' or 'vplayer release' or anything else. And to keep support just for new one. We have no 'free support forever' statements, so abitno will not become liar. And then I would have bought this app. It definitely worth 3$, I have no problem with it other than 'DO NOT BUY FROM LIAR' policy.