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Best media player for Android?

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Bob2004:
Definitely MX Player in my experience. Handles 10bit fine and can do ass subs with full typesetting as well (although it can't quite do the really complicated stuff perfectly).

Freedom Kira:
I've been using MXPlayer after seeing Bob's recommendation on an older thread. It's quite nice. I'm impressed at how well it handled 1080p stuff that lagged my laptop with a Core 2 Duo P8400 and ATI graphics (don't remember the model but it wasn't a very powerful one). I'm using a cheap Android tablet that was made in China - has an Allwinner A10 CPU and has lagged before in other apps, but MX hasn't given me many problems, aside from occasional audio glitches that push the audio a second or so behind the video, which fix themselves after a few seconds.

Reesebiz:
I've always been using MX Player and no problems with it. I would recommend it to anyone.

Sakura90:
Well, fuck it <_<

They could decode Super HiVision at 60 fps, but none of them can decode properly a simple 5.1 AC3 track. BsPlayer gives total gibberish as audio, and both MX Player and the default Android video player have sound go badly off sync, lags behind and skips. Unwatchable.

I did a very quick search and it seems the 5.1 channel is the reason. WHY? :'( Is it so hard to decode and mix the 5 channels into 2?

Well, I'm better off going to play Where's my Water? and crap like that. All anime I was planning to see are DVD rips, hence AC3 audio (I don't have the space for BD rips, I need to get a 32GB SD :p). Btw, it also seems DTS isn't supported in both BS Player and MX. I read they had in the past, but not in recent versions. Any ideas why? That's another deal breaker... I have lots of BD rips with DTS <_<

It all points at having to re-encode the audio. Funny. You can even watch 1080p and/or 10-bit (is 1080p 10-bit possible? haven't tried yet) but you can't have a simple multichannel AC3 track or DTS :(

Well, at least it's less painful to re-encode audio than video. I guess you can't have it all...





P.S.: In MX I tried both SW and HW for audio, it's all the same. Thanks for the responses, I'll do more audio research when I come back.

Freedom Kira:
You could always try re-encoding your stuff into 2-channel sound before you drop it in your device. =P

I haven't tried 1080p 10-bit, but a movie that was 1080p 8-bit and around 8-9GB and 90-120 min long played fairly well. It contains 5-channel audio but I haven't actually watched it all the way through with sound; just played a few intense scenes to test it out.

SD cards are cheap these days. For example, I currently have this card in my tablet. I got a deal from a local retailer that has a price beat policy, too, so the price I paid was less than on the link.

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