VLC Media Player for Android Coming Soon: First Direction

Great news for all Android users. Nearly everybody is well acquainted with VLC media player and hence no need to give direction about VLC.

Now the good news is, VLC has announced that they are going to bring their media player to Android world very soon. Although the VLC for android is in beta version, soon you can get the freeware VLC player for your android mobile.

Some of the features are:

• Plays all files, in all formats, like the classic VLC.
• Audio and video media library, with full search.
• Supports Android from 2.1 up to 4.0.
• Support for network streams.
• Gestures, headphones control.
• Subtitles support, embedded and external, including ASS and DVD subtitles.
• Multi audio or subtitles tracks selection.
• Multi-core decoding, for Cortex-A7 A9 and A15 chips.
• Experimental hardware decoding

Software performance on phones for H.264

This table is a rough idea of what one can hope to play with VLC on Android, for now, using the software decoder.

Performance is likely to improve in the future.

Name	480p	576p	720p	MKV 720p + ASS
HTC One X
Samsung Galaxy S3
Galaxy Nexus
Samsung Galaxy S2
HTC Desire HD
Nexus One

Recommended phones

• Galaxy Nexus; (OMAP 4460)
• HTC One X; (Tegra 3)
• Samsung Galaxy S3; (Exynos 4 Quad)
• Motorola Defy; (OMAP 3610)
• HTC Desire; (QSD8250 Snapdragon)
• Nexus one. (QSD8250 Snapdragon)

Source: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-android.html

For downloading VLC media player visit: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

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