RockPlayerBase: The best media player for Android (DiVX, Xvid, WMV support)

Update: RockPlayer is now available from the Android Market.

Most Android devices support a handful of media codecs out of the box, including H.264 and MP4. But there are a ton of formats that aren’t typically supported, including MKV, DiVX, Xvid, and WMV. And RockPlayerBase can handle them all.

That’s the good news. The bad news is that RockPlayerBase isn’t available from the Android Market yet. It’s currently in private beta testing. But if you search the internet, I’m pretty sure you can find a download link. Just saying…

The RockPlayerBase user interface couldn’t be much simpler. When you fire up the app, you’ll see a file browser. Just scroll around until you find the video you want to watch, tap it, and odds are it will start playing.

There are a handful of on-screen controls, including fast forward and rewind buttons, a play/pause button, and a zoom button. Clicking on zoom once will increase the size of the video, while hitting it twice will stretch the video to fit the size of your display — which works pretty well if you have a video that’s formatted with a 16:9 aspect ration, but not so well with 4:3 videos. You can tap anywhere on the video to make the controls go away.

Because most Android devices don’t have hardware decoding support for DiVX, WMV, and many other codecs, RockBasePlayer can be somewhat taxing on the CPU. You’ll probably have best results using a device with a fairly speedy CPU. I had no problems watching videos on a Google Nexus One.

Up until now the best app I’d found for playing DiVX and Xvid movies was Wuzhenhua Player. RockBasePlayer blows that app out of the water when it comes to ease of use, codec support, stability, and perhaps most importantly, the ability to watch videos in landscape mode.

Hopefully RockBasePlayer will be released to the public soon, because Android is sorely missing a versatile video player.

via Android Community

Posted in Android, Multimedia | Tags: beta, divx, media player, mkv, rockplayer, rockplayerbase, video, video player, video player for android, wmv, xvid

June 15th, 2010 | Author: Brad Linder

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quote:
RockPlayer first public BETA release

We are proud to announce the RockPlayer is ready for public beta, enjoy video on your favorite phone now!
Support Android OS : 1.6 – 2.2
Support Media format : avi mkv rmvb flv mp4 3gp wmv mov asf , divx xvid h264 rv40
CPU Requirement: ARMV6 ?ARMV7 .device must support VFP (NOT Support: HTC G1 G2 G3 )
Download link :
http://groups.google.com.hk/group/rockplayer/files
http://www.freecoder.org/rockplayer/RockPlayer_...

Official Forum : http://www.diffthink.com/forum/
http://www.diffthink.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=...

Must uninstall the old version before install if any. And this public beta will expire at July-15-2010.
Please keep above note when you share the news.
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