MoboPlayer is a new video player for Google Android, and it may just be the most impressive multimedia app I’ve seen for the platform. The app supports most video formats including MP4, MOV, and MKV, and also supports subtitles and multiple audio streams. You can create playlists for continues playback, and the app can also stream internet media using http and rtsp protocols. I tested… Read more »

While the open source VLC media player has been pulled from Apple’s iTunes App Store, a new mobile version is in the works for Google Android. Thanks to Google’s open source roots, the Android version should be safe from the sort of legal/licensing issues that brought down the iPhone version. If you’ve been impatiently waiting for the popular video player to show up in the… Read more »

The VLC media player is a popular open source app for Mac, Windows, Linux, and even iOS. The best thing about VLC is that it’s capable of handling almost any video format you can throw at it without breaking a sweat — although the iOS version is limited by the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad hardware, making HD video playback difficult. Still, I can’t help… Read more »

I got word that VLC officially hit the iPad and I was psyched. I had previously tested out the Xvid-playing app CineXPlayer to lousy results and recommended that you stick to Apple-approved formats for your iPad. Then an app calling itself “VLC” appeared. If you watch video on your computer, you probably know about VLC — it is the Swiss-army knife of video players. Dang… Read more »

CineXPlayer was released last week for iPad to much fanfare because it is the first app featuring Xvid playback on the Apple tablet. People were amazed that Apple would allow a video player that played more than the handful of Apple-approved file formats, but what was missed was the low quality of the application itself. It looks nice, and it definitely supports more file formats… Read more »

Update: Make sure to read our list of 13 great video players for Android phones and tablets. When it rains it pours. For the first two years of Google Android’s life there weren’t really any all purpose video players for the platform. The built in video player is bundled with Android’s picture viewer and only supports a handful of video formats. But recently RockPlayer launched an… Read more »

Update: Check out our list of 12 of the best video players for Android RockPlayer is kind of the holy grail of video players for Google Android. It’s an app that can handle virtually any video format you can throw at it — provided the video isn’t wrapped up in DRM copy protection. I took RockPlayer for a test drive while it was still in beta… Read more »

Update: RockPlayer is now available from the Android Market. You can read about the full version here. RockPlayer is hands down, the best video player I’ve tried for Google Android. The only catch was that the version I wrote about last week was a private beta that wasn’t available to the general public (unless you searched for a hacked version that had been released in… Read more »

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 RockPlayer can handle them all. The RockPlayer 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… Read more »

TCPMP is one of the most popular media players for Windows Mobile, due largely to its Swiss Army knife features – it can handle almost any video you want to throw at it, as long as that video isn’t wrapped up in DRM. Unfortunately the free app also doesn’t handle H.264 — but the developers moved onto a commercial video player called CorePlayer a few… Read more »