Best Android Video Player?

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I'm new to this forum, so sorry if this has been asked loads of times before.

The HTC Desire cannot play most video files out of the box. What's considered the best android video player, with the most codec support?

I've managed to get two Quicktime MOVs to work but without sound (the rest don't, one is a 720p Robin Hood trailer, that looks amazing). The following don't work at all:

* AVI - Some DivX, some unknown
* FLV - Off You Tube
* RM - RealPlayer
* M4V
* MPG - MPEG1

The following work fine:

* 3GP
* WMV
* MP4

I particularly need a player that can handle DivX/Xvid and Quicktime MOV.

The best I can find is yxFlash. This supports:

# Supports mpg, avi, mp4, flv, mkv and wmv/asf files
# Mpeg1/2/4, H264 BP, Divx/Xvid, FLV1 and WMV7/8/9
# Mp3, AAC, WMA, AC3 and PCM
# Network Streaming (http, ftp, mms ...)
# Armv7 Neon Accelaration and Up to 720p DivX Playback for Cortex-A8 Based Devices.

Not Quicktime though (maybe some will work that are MPEG4). The free version only lets you play videos for 2 minutes long. It costs $9.90 (pricey!).

I'd rather find a free or cheaper alternative before shelling out nearly 10 dollars.

Thanks

I think there is nothing right now apart from yxflash which does AVI etc.

Its crap though this is what i think. Big down side of android is a good video player.

There is coreplayer being develop for android but it could be an other few years before we see it.

Originally Posted by hassan

I think there is nothing right now apart from yxflash which does AVI etc.

Its crap though this is what i think. Big down side of android is a good video player.

There is coreplayer being develop for android but it could be an other few years before we see it.

how come? TCPMP has been out on WM for years and runs on harcware that is years old

Originally Posted by hassan

I think there is nothing right now apart from yxflash which does AVI etc.

I'm really surprised that's the case but looking too and I cannot find much either. It's crazy. The HTC Desire has a wonder resolution. I read HTC plan to include DivX support in a future Desire firmware though.

I've just downloaded the English Wuzhenhua Player 4.1 from this forum. Maybe that's better.

Originally Posted by hassan

There is coreplayer being develop for android but it could be an other few years before we see it.

Years! . They're losing money. Windows Mobile is on the way out. Thanks.

I've found yxflash to be pretty good.

It won't play any of my FLV files (contrary to what the site says) but it plays everything else nice enough. Sadly there is a noticeable lag at times though . Oddly despite the Market Place listing claiming "only 2 minutes of playback", I've had a video playing for over 3 minutes now, without problem.

Wuzhenhua on the other hand needs a lot of work. Sure it plays the FLV files (just about!). That's about the only good thing I can say about it. It crashes more than it doesn't. Thanks to the guy who translated it into English though.

The best video player is the one HTC ship with the Desire but it only plays .3GP, .WMV and .MP4. I guess the best solution right now is to transcode to .MP4 until HTC get around to releasing their firmware so the Desire can play DivX.

I find Act1 Video player to be the best so far.
Plays without hiccups 99% of the time

Originally Posted by dougsdir

how come? TCPMP has been out on WM for years and runs on harcware that is years old

Yes WM is a different platform, As i've heard from betaboy that Android NDK is still not very good for coreplayer and until google will come out with good NDK there wont be coreplayer for Android.

Also coreplayer team is bit slow too as they were talking about new version of coreplayers for at least two years now.

Only Samsung Galaxy S is going to cover lot of codec in MKV.

Its a big downside of Desire as it cant play DIVX, XVID etc natively.

Originally Posted by defectivereject

I find Act1 Video player to be the best so far.

I've just installed that thanks. That is a nice player. It only looks to support the formats that are native to the phone though. So in my case .3GP, .WMV, .MP4.

Meaning it's not much different to the native HTC one really. I do like it can resume from where you left off though. yxflash has a neat feature whereby for .3GP, .WMV, .MP4 it defaults to the HTC Player for these formats and uses it's own interface for other formats. I like that as it's better.

Originally Posted by hassan

Its a big downside of Desire as it cant play DIVX, XVID etc natively.

DivX at least is coming:

http://www.htcphones.net/htc-desire-...ivx-confirmed/

The native HTC Video Player was able to play a Robin Hood (2010) 720p Quicktime trailer of mine. It looked amazing and played fine, no sound though. It was more luck than anything else it played.

rename them..

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For your .m4v you can just change the extention to .mp4, and the desire movie player will play them back just fine.
It's not "out of the box" playback, but it doesn't take you long to rename them and the files doesn't change (like if you converted them to another format).

I did it with a couple of files when i threw a movie folder onto the sd card using astro. Not much hassle.

m4v's are just apple re-branded mp4's.
http://all-streaming-media.com/strea...-streaming.htm

regards
-e

Originally Posted by Eddiemc

For your .m4v you can just change the extention to .mp4, and the desire movie player will play them back just fine.

I noticed that after posting thanks. It turns out (using GSpot) they're MP4 files anyway. I'm pretty sure M4V and MP4 are the same thing anyway.

Originally Posted by Eddiemc

m4v's are just apple re-branded mp4's.
http://all-streaming-media.com/strea...-streaming.htm

Thanks.