VLC video and Music player – Play HD Video Android App

akshay upadhyay
Categories: Apps and Games
Tags: Audio and video, VLC media player

If you are looking for a versatile, all in one media player that will play any file format that you throw at it, then give a perception to VLC for android. Yes, VLC for android, You might surely aware of VLC Player for PC but now we have VLC apk for android also. In Google Playstore, there are number of apps under the tag of Media and video but here we are presenting features of one of the best VLC video and Music player – Android App

VLC android is the best open source Video and Music player which is fast, smart and easy to use. People always desire to have a best way to enjoy HD movies or videos or Music. It is so obvious that a well-designed player can always boost the interest of user to enjoy cinematic experience directly from smart phone. VLC for android possess all desired features for its users. So let us see How VLC for android complement itself.

You can also check MX player which is one of the most widely used application to play and watch HD Videos in Android. Also check VLC vs MX player comparison.

VLC video and Music player – Android App

VLC media player is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player that plays most multimedia files as well as discs, devices, and network streaming protocols. Multimedia Player, VLC for Android is also a full audio player, with a complete database, an equalizer and filters allows to play all weird audio formats. It can play almost anything from extensive MP3 and MP4 files to more unusual formats such as FLAC and M2TS.

VLC is intended for everyone which is totally free, has no ads, no in-app-purchases, no spying and is developed by passionate volunteers. All the source code is available for free. In addition to playing local files, VLC for android also supports local network streaming and media library organization like the desktop version of VLC as well as advanced playback features such as multiple audio track and subtitles.

Along with all Video and Audio list, you can scan song or music files from your local directories also. It enables you to go to the History if you want to go to recently played song. In VLC for android, You can create your own playlist.

• Download VLC media player app from here.

Features – VLC video and Music player – Android App

let us see all the special features in brief of VLC for android app and Multimedia player which complement itself in a unique manner:

INTERFACE:

• It allows to group videos and also provides with disable option. Videos are grouped if as their first letter are the same, Short number of letters, and Long number of letters.

•  There is a option to change the Theme of player from by Default Orange Theme to Black Theme. So, it allows to enable/disable the Black Theme for better comfort in low light environment in the interface.

DISPLAY:

• It allows to set Video screen orientation from automatic (sensor) to Locked at start, Landscape and Portrait.

• It allows to enable or disable Media cover on lock screen. when you enable this option, it set the current media cover art as lockscreen wallpaper.
• In this app we can view list of videos according to our choice. It allows to enable ‘No Grid in Portrait mode’ to show videos in list instead of  grid in portrait mode.
• Audio title alignment is set at the centre by default but from setting > Interface > Audio Title alignment, you can set alignment to Right, left, or Marquee.
• Android and Android TV versions are now merged, allowing users to manually set the Android TV interface on other devices like phones and tablets. VLC allows to enable/disable Android TV Interface. By connecting Android device to TV with a Bluetooth controller, we can change UI (user interface) to TV adapted Theme.
  The setting to enable the layout can be found in Settings > Interface > Android TV interface.

CONTROLS:

• The feature touch gesture control allows to control brightness while playing video. You can increase or decrease brightness by sliding your finger up and down on the left hand side of the screen.

• It has option to enables ‘save Brightness level for the video’.
• It’s ‘Volume Gesture’ allows to increase or decrease volume during video playback by sliding up and down on right hand side of screen.
• We can enable seek button which allows to rewind and forward buttons on the video interface.
• If enable ‘Detect headset’, it will pause on headset removal and resume on headset insertion.
• If we activate ‘Ask conformation to resume’, it will be asked to confirm when a video can be resumed from last position.

SUBTITLES:

• If you see wrong text on screen then you need to change subtitle text encoding. VLC allows to change subtitle text encoding from Default (Windows-1252) to different numbers of coding to avoid wrong text.

• It allows to manage Subtitles’ Size while video playback from small to Normal, big, and huge.

• We can change color of Subtitles. It has five different colors to set i.e. white, pink, blue, yellow and green.

• It allows to enable or disable the Background of Subtitles.
• From Subtitles Download languages- We can select the languages to download when fetching subtitles.

HARDWARE ACCELERATION:

• VLC can decode video in both software and hardware mode. Although hardware decoding often provides better performance but unfortunately it is not supported on all devices. Android version below 4.3, software decoding may be the only supported option for users.

Video Player- Feature:

VLC Video Player has so many features other than volume control gesture, brightness control gesture and seek control. So let us see all other advanced feature of VLC player:

• It has Lock feature which enables user to enjoy without disturbance as it does not rotate screen and lock its sensory features.

• On screen of video player it has option for audio track and subtitles. It allows to select subtitle file and download subtitles.

• At the right hand side of the screen it ‘option’ button. From that option, we can set ‘ Sleep Timer’, which allows to play music especially in night without having worry of stop songs.

• User can control and increase or decrease ‘playback speed’ of the video.

• It has amazing feature of ‘Jump to Time’, which allows to jump on that particular time.

• It allows to set Subtitle or Audio delay from no delay.
• We can set Video player to play video in the Pop-up window. Hence it allows to play video along with another app screen.

• It allows to switch on Audio player directly from the video player screen.

• You can set video for at the Repeat mode by just one click.

• VLC Player allows you to resize your video screen to Fit vertical, Fill, 16:9 ratio, 4:3 ratio, center, Horizontal Fit and Best Fit.

Audio Player- Feature:

VLC Video player can be switch to audio player even directly from video player. VLC Audio player has same feature of Sleep Timer, Playback speed, and Jump to Time as video player but still it holds some special audio feature mentioned below:

• User can rename the song and create a playlist directly from the player by adding song in the playlist.

• We can remove the song from the playlist and rearrange the order of the song.

• It allows to go to the properties of the song or the complete detail of the song with its location in the system.

• It has equalizer feature along with different categories so user can easily alter the frequency response of an audio system.

So, What are you waiting for!!! Download and enjoy with VLC for android and experience the fun never before. Have an amazing entertainment with two in one Video – Audio Player.