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Which video app?

Thanks, tried it but stock is better I think. Like to see full screen, only downside with stock is no rewind.... any other suggestions?
 
I used to like Rock player then I discovered Vplayer. Vplayer just works better takes up less space and uses less battery. With Rock player it would use 1 percent of battery for every one minute of video I watched. My vote would be for "Vplayer" You can pinch to expand videos to full screen if they are in the old square format.
 
the best player ive used is mPlayer
its got adverts but if you have add free they dont load.
it supports most formats and uses gestures on screen for forward backward etc
 
Rastaman-FB said:
the best player ive used is mPlayer
its got adverts but if you have add free they dont load.
it supports most formats and uses gestures on screen for forward backward etc
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Have you tried vplayer? If yes I'll give mplayer a go (cause that would suggest to me mplayer is better)
 
Rastaman-FB said:
the best player ive used is mPlayer
its got adverts but if you have add free they dont load.
it supports most formats and uses gestures on screen for forward backward etc
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A second vote for mVideoPlayer here. I'm on a stock 2.2 Desire.

Plays videos smoothly with sound in sync (I use DoubleTwist to get films onto the phone).

Good FF RW using screen.

Turns off the button lights when watching videos.

Remembers your brightness setting (used to be a pain constantly having to set brightness to max before watching a film).

Good allround player. Would pay for an add free version if there was one.
 
danfrance said:
Have you tried vplayer? If yes I'll give mplayer a go (cause that would suggest to me mplayer is better)
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yes
i think its better than vplayer, doesnt play as many formats as vplayer but vblayer does wierd lag when streaming videos and doesnt look as nice

mplayers ui is much more clean and well thought out
 
Just about all of the content I watch is in MP4, 3GP, MOV, and FLV format. I use the YouTube player for the latter but for the other 3 I use the video player embedded in ES File Manager. It always plays full-screen when in landscape orientation, you can drag a pointer along the timeline to more or less where you want to start playing, and it has backward and forward arrows for fine-tuning the position. The only thing missing is the ability to bookmark the current position so I can come back to it later. It does, however, save storage space over having a separate video player and file manager installed.
 
I can't understand why Google didn't make the stock player well thought out. I can understand if it doesn't have its own brightness setting or doesn't turn off button lights, but it can't even remember the position until where I played the damn video!

If I just switch to check messages or answer the unavoidable call in the middle of the video, or even just lock and unlock the phone, it either just goes back to 00:00 or back to the list of videos!

This is a very annoying problem I find with the stock player, and it's so basic, Google must have thought it out a long time ago. Just shocking they never cared.

Is the mPlayer called "mPlayer" or "mVideoPlayer"? Because my Market doesn't have any results for 'mplayer' but I can find a result called 'mVideoPlayer'.

I'm also trying out vPlayer. Thinking whether I should try RockPlayer but after hearing 1% battery for every 1min, I think it maybe a battery-killer. I love watching videos on phone, and I don't want my battery to die that fast!!

Any suggestions?
 
UPDATE: I find mVideoPlayer better that vPlayer as it offers a lot more features.

  • Brightness is remembered for video playing. (You can slide finger on video to adjust when the slider is on screen, but only works if "Swipe to Seek" is turned on.)
  • Ringer volume can be muted. (Nice feature but not sure if it mutes notification volume. It's irritating when a new notification arrives and the video plays mute.)
  • Time and battery is nicely displayed. (vPlayer also does that but displays the date and seconds as well. Date is unnecessary, and seconds is a distraction.)
  • Volume rocker can be inverted (useful coz in my Desire HD, the rocker changes volume in opposite directions.)
  • Displays folders that ONLY contains media files. (vPlayer look like a file manager by showing all folders, and that's unnecessary.)
  • Can be set to scan folders that only contain your video files. (Not necessary but useful to improve rescan time and to avoid adding junk videos to the library.)
  • Seek by sliding finger on video (Very nice for fine-seeeking, because the seek bar is more coarse. I would lock controls to avoid accidental seeking. Wish it would only seek when the on-screen controls are displayed or after a delay).
  • Controls can be locked to avoid accidental touches and changes.
  • Uses native Android video codecs so it's a great replacement for stock player. It's like "stock player with blings". (Not sure about vPlayer but I don't think so.)
  • Very slick and beautiful interface.
  • Seems to be ad-free, but I found an option to enter "ad-free key" in the Preferences. So far I didn't see any ad anywhere. (vPlayer is also ad-free).
Have not tried RockPlayer but I'm very happy with mVideoPlayer. I just have a few suggestions to the author which I will send to him/her later.
 
Uses native Android video codecs so it's a great replacement for stock player. It's like "stock player with blings". (Not sure about vPlayer but I don't think so.)
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And this is why RockPlayer is miles ahead. The built in codecs are very limiting and heavily restrict the filetypes it will play.

VPlayer on the other hand does sound promising as it appears to play most of the same file formats as RockPlayer.
I'm interested to know how VPlayer compares to Rockplayer for battery life. I can probably watch 1.5 hours of video on mine before it has really made a big dent in the battery.
I have a feeling the players which rely on the built in codecs will use less battery as less processing is required. So RockPlayer should use similar battery in system mode as the others (I think..)

Edit: VPlayer looks thoroughly comparable to Rockplayer O_O
 
rockplayer is overated imo, i use mvideoplayer for most of my video watching and there doesnt seem to be an issue.
i dont watch flv on my phone unless its on a website which is fine as flash plays it and if i want porn i used pc :P

i dont like rockplayer when it comes to the things it boasts about it doesnt pull it off well and at the moment vplayer doesnt either. im sure they will improve but as a slick interface and the options it offers it is far batter than other players.
i dont know why people want to play mkv/avi on phones when as the screens are smaller you dont notice the difference against a well compressed mp4.
the file size on these other containers are massive in comparison and eats space and memory on the phone.
you can find anything you want in mp4 format tbh due to iphone
 
ADTC said:
Thinking whether I should try RockPlayer but after hearing 1% battery for every 1min, I think it maybe a battery-killer. I love watching videos on phone, and I don't want my battery to die that fast!!
Any suggestions?
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Nah, I use rockplayer, doesn't drain battery that fast. I use it for a an hour or so at lunch times, maybe uses 10% if that. This is playing .avi's in software mode.
HTH
 
Rastaman-FB said:
i dont know why people want to play mkv/avi on phones when as the screens are smaller you dont notice the difference against a well compressed mp4.
the file size on these other containers are massive in comparison and eats space and memory on the phone.
you can find anything you want in mp4 format tbh due to iphone
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I don't know what files you might be watching but for me I don't download my videos to specifically play on my phone but also to play on my laptop. I can fit hours and hours of videos as MKVs.
AVIs yea, it's pretty much wasted space.

The support for MP4 doesn't even come close to that of MKV regardless of it picking up because of iPhones.
 
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