Android video player based on ExoPlayer

It uses ExoPlayer's extension-ffmpeg with all its audio formats enabled (it can handle even special formats like AC3, EAC3, DTS, DTS HD, TrueHD etc.).

It properly syncs audio with video track when using Bluetooth earphones/speaker. (I was not able to find any other nice ExoPlayer based video player so I created this one.)

• Audio: Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, ALAC, PCM/WAVE (μ-law, A-law), MP1, MP2, MP3, AMR (NB, WB), AAC (LC, ELD, HE; xHE on Android 9+), AC-3, E-AC-3, DTS, DTS-HD, TrueHD
• Video: H.263, H.264 AVC (Baseline Profile; Main Profile on Android 6+), H.265 HEVC, MPEG-4 SP, VP8, VP9, AV1
• Containers: MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV, Ogg, MPEG-TS, MPEG-PS, FLV
• Subtitles: SRT, SSA, ASS, TTML, VTT

HDR (HDR10+ and Dolby Vision) video playback on compatible/supported hardware.

• Audio/subtitle track selection
• Playback speed control
• Horizontal swipe and double tap to quickly seek
• Vertical swipe to change brightness (left) / volume (right)
• Pinch to zoom (Android 7+)
• PiP (Picture in Picture) on Android 8+ (resizable on Android 11+)
• Resize (fit/crop)
• Volume boost
• No ads, tracking or even the Internet permission (no storage permission either)

To load external (non-embedded) subtitles, long press the file open action in the bottom bar. The first time you do that, you will be offered to select root video folder to enable automatic loading of external subtitles.

WRITE_SETTINGS ("Modify system settings") permission: When the system file chooser is opened, it will always use current system orientation, even if the Player app sets its own. Granting this permission via adb (adb shell pm grant com.brouken.player android.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS) or App info screen will allow this app to temporarily enable Auto-rotate to at least partially mitigate this imperfection.

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Also available on OPPO App Market, Xiaomi GetApps (for now) or Uptodown.

Other links/channels: application thread on XDA Developers, subreddit on reddit, entry on AlternativeTo, git mirror on GitLab, group on Telegram

Just pause and resume playback once again.

If you enable Caption preferences on your device, you will be able to override the default subtitle style of the Player and fully customize subtitle style.

Unfortunately, upstream ExoPlayer doesn't handle some older formats like AVI container, WMV or Theora.

Just Player focuses on playing videos so audio only playback isn't officialy supported (request).

• This is the version distributed using most channels (Google Play, F-Droid etc.)
• Without INTERNET permission

Even without Internet permission, this variant is still able to access and play some videos over the network (thanks to DocumentsProviders). This includes official cloud storage clients (like Dropbox, Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive).

Ideally, you should also be able to use other proviers for Samba, WebDAV or SFTP. Another promising multi protocol provider is rcx. However, at this time these providers may not be "production ready".

• Currently available only from releases on Github
• With INTERNET permission
• Optional READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission (needed only with some old apps)
• Supports opening "streaming" links (including DASH, HLS, SmoothStreaming, RTSP etc.)
• Auto update checker

This variant is needed if you want to access videos on network storages using file managers such as Solid Explorer, Total Commander or Ghost Commander.

Notes on partial, experimental support.

Available since v0.33: Install app like MediaInfo (or APK from MediaArea.net). Then, to quickly open MediaInfo from Just Player, long press the video name/title.

Here's a comparison table presenting all available and significant open source video players for Android I was able to find. Just Player is something like 80% feature complete. It will probably never have dozens of options or some rich media library UI. It will never truly compete with feature rich VLC. It just attempts to provide functional feature set and motive others to create greater players based on amazing ExoPlayer.

The tested HDR VP9 video was "The World in HDR" from Kodi Sample, running on OnePlus 7 (Snapdragon 855).

To find other video players (including non-FOSS), check out a list on IzzyOnDroid.