6 Commercial Android Video Players

Posted by sde on Oct 2, 2011 7:31 AM EDT
LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms
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A built-in video player has been included in the base Android operating system ever since Android 1.5 (Cupcake) was released back in April 2009. That player offered video playback for MPEG-4 and 3GP formats. However, even with the latest releases of Android for smartphones and tablets (Gingerbread, Honeycomb respectively) many users find the built-in player to be inadequate, due to support for a limited number of video formats, being unable to watch high definition video even on dual core processors, and generally deprived of features.

Unsurprisingly, with a collection of more than 300,000 Android apps available, the Android platform has plenty of choices when it comes to alternative video players, both of the free and paid variety. We have scoured these third party apps, identifying 6 of them to see how they performed. All of the video players have been tested on Android smartphones and tablets, but we have concentrated on their performance on tablets, in particular the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, if only because the larger screens on tablets are more suited to watching videos.

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