Watching videos on your iPad would have been an enjoyable thing if you’re not annoyed by the few formats it supports (i.e., mp4, m4v, and mov). Thus playing videos on your iPad could even be a chore with the native video player. There are many video player apps for iPad videos, most of which are declaring to support formats. Among them, I recommend you 3 ones which are good that play most of the standard video formats (wmv, mkv, avi, mp4, flv, rmvb, and even subtitle files) and cost you no money.
PlayerXtreme is able to run files in almost any video format. With it you can play your email attachments. HD (in 1080P) playback is supported for MP4, MOV and M4V formats. It supports .srt subtitles and you can control subtitle's font size, track, and language. One of the most astonishing features is that it could boost volume upto 12 times of the original sound, which makes it possible for you viewing videos without headphones.
PlayerX would be a decent option for most standard quality videos, despite its slow speed in loading files. BTW, there are no ads included.
With 8player lite, you can play videos on your i-devices, not just for iPad, but also for iPod and iPhone. Well, actually, it’s more than just a video player, it also supports audio formats as mp3, aac, wav, etc. and images of jpeg, png, etc. formats.
As the latest application for Video, Music & Photo streaming from any compatible UPnP/DLNA server, you can use embedded Windows 7 server (built in Windows Media Player), or download any other free server, if you don’t have DLNA/UPnP servers.
Well, this is lite version of OPlayerHD which has been rated as “iPhone apps Plus Best”. Actually, I think it would be the best free choice in video player apps. After all, the main difference between the lite and full versions is a single ad that rests in the top of the iPad, often in the black letterbox bars. It supports most of the video formats, video formats, and even subtitle file formats. Though not displaying quite as sharply as AV Player or GoodPlayer, OPlayerHD Lite has an integrated browser, ftp, and streaming options.
With free these video players you can watch your movies on the go from anywhere even if they’re in any format even if they don’t normally play or even sync with your iPad!
RealPlayer has just returned for Android, while flash player has left.How much further will it go on?
As a cross-platform, browser-based application runtime, Adobe Flash player provides uncompromised viewing of expressive applications, content, and videos, content, and videos across browsers and operating systems. It can be used for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications, and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or mobile devices.
But the application in mobile devices came to the end after Apple refused to allow the Flash Player within the inbuilt iOS web browser. About a week ago on August 15th, Adobe Systems officially declared no flash player for portable android devices anymore. Actually, Adobe has already made decision not to develop flash player for web on mobile.
Adobe once tried hard for portable devices, but was banned by Apple. Adobe will block new installs of Flash on Android, essentially removing its presence from the mobile world. People say that Adobe would have turned its purpose on Android, but never effectively marketed its integration features with Google’s popular mobile OS. iOS never stands behind it as Steve Jobs expressed in April 2010: iPhone, iPod and iPad would never have flash player found.
Is the era of html 5 for mobile coming as flash player die away? On another hand, the exit of mobile field of flash player actually means to give up a greater market-85% Android OS of the whole mobile market.
Android 4.1 does not allow installation of flash player, and now it’s official. From then on, Adobe will disable all new installs of Flash player for Android. However, this never means this software or flash would disappear from people’s life. As a matter of fact, it still owns great advances over other player in the PC world-Google’s Chrome support it, by the way. Windows 8 from Microsoft still has built-in flash player since html 5 is not stable enough for the market. With all these changes in the internet world and portable devices, I wonder how long can flash last?
As time goes by, RealPlayer, which was widely used on almost everyone’s computer back to the 90’s, has been gradually faded away from people’s sight. Whether because of its own development prospect or competitions, until recently, RealPlayer comes back again. This most well-recognized media player giant RealNetworks Company has just released RealPlayer app for Andriod in hoping to distance himself from the destructive opinions that have historically surrounded its desktop counterpart. (Previously, we’ve talked about the Beta version)
The newly-launched RealPlayer app is an all-in-one app for music, videos and photos, which makes it quite convenient to manage all your mobile media experience. It seems like RealPlayer does everything-play music, video; handle photos, be plugged directly into websites like FB.
Though with complicated functions, it is quite easy to operate. The app’s interface is simple with a clean, icon-based dashboard. All audio controls are placed at the center of the screen while icons for videos and photos at the bottom. Right on the dashboard, there are options for browsing Playlists, Albums, Genres, Artists, or Songs. At the first installation, it will automatically take inventory of the media on your device and populates its menus with your content, which make it possible for you to start your playing immediately.
"This is the media player that people want," said Scott Uomoto, SVP Consumer and Helix Divisions of RealNetworks. "It delivers on what RealNetworks does best: helping people simplify, connect to, and enjoy their digital media in the increasingly complex world of mobile media. We drew on the rich heritage of the RealPlayer media platform, which has close to 500 million installs over the last 2.5 years —with 190 million installs alone over the last 12 months— and is one of the most recognized brands in media players worldwide."
Key features:
1. Easily Organize & Play Music
Use an intuitive interface, metadata discovery, widgets and voice controlled search.
2. Listen to Music Your Way
You are the DJ with an equalizer, playlist editor, crossfade and personalized radio.
3. Share Your Media
Show off your media on Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and Picasa.
4. Use the Free or Upgraded App
Enjoy the free app or upgrade for even more features.
Users are beginning to worrying about too much adware, due to the bad reputation of its bigger brother RealPlayer desktops. And some complain about no power features like photo effects, advanced sorting or video editing effects are added. Anyway, for your multimedia experience, RealPlayer for Android would absolutely be perfect. It will simplify your mobile, after all. You can get it on GooglePlay.
AcePlayer can play almost any file format movies and streaming directly on iPhone/iPod/iPad. Just transfer the media files to your ios devices by iTunes File Shareing or over Wi-Fi,then it can be played at once. With built-in downloader and FTP/Samba client, it is not just a local movie player,it is "Movie Player & Downloader & Streaming Media Player" in fact. You can also stream/download media files from most of all UPnP/DLNA media servers to your ios devices.
Note: AcePlayer can not work on iPhone 3G and iPod gen1/gen2.
Features
1.Support almost any video formats: WMV, AVI, MKV, RMVB, RM, XVID, MP4, 3GP, MPG...
2.Support almost any audio formats: MP3, WMA, RM, ACC, OGG, APE, FLAC,FLV...
3.Support smi, srt, ass, ssa, sub txt subtitle.
4.Use iTunes to sync movies to AcePlayer.
5.Easily Wi-Fi transfer to download media files from PC to your ios devices.
6.Build-in Open Url Client to support HTTP, FTP, MMS, RTSP, SMB, RTP streaming.
7.Build-in UPnP Client to stream/download media files from most of all UPnP/DLNA media servers.
8.Build-in FTP Client to stream/download media files from FTP Servers(Note: stream only for PASV mode).
9.Build-in Samba Client to stream/download media files from Samba Servers.
10.Build-in file manager supported: move files from folder to folder,file delete,file rename,folder creation,folder delete.
11.Build-in file downloader. You can download files from FTP/Samba/UPnP Servers, and resume or pause downloads.
12.Multi playlist supported: you can create playlist and and media file to playlist, and every folder is automatically made as a playlist.
13."Open In" feature supported: open video and audio files from Mail email attachments and Safari Web browser.
14. aceplayer://URL scheme.
15.iPad 2 dual core decoding supported.For iPad 2,dual-core of A5 chip could be used to decode at the same time.
16.TV out support.
17.AirPlay supported(Note: only for QuickTime plugin).
18.Buid-in photo viewer to support:jpeg, jpg, png, bmp...
19.It can play music in the background mode, so that build your playlist, you can us it as a music player.
20. You can set password for your folder in the documents, just click the button on the right of the folder.
Below is a video from YouTube showing how to use Aceplayer on iPhone:
The app won’t work on iPhones, but other than that, it is basically an analog of Amazon’s iOS Kindle apps: You can use it to access videos you’ve bought or rented from Amazon’s store, but you can’t actually buy or rent the content directly from the app. (For more on this, review last year’s changes to Apple’s iTunes rules.)
So this won’t help Amazon do much to market its offerings, but it adds obvious value for its existing consumers. (Via 9to5 Mac.)
Vplayer is a minimalistic HTML5 Video Player with a Social Media Sharing Widget and a Video Gallery Slider. Vplayer works on all modern browsers, and can fall back to Flash for older browsers. The scripts’ only dependency is jQuery.
Update V 1 .1
Added Video Buffering Status
Click-able Logo
JSON Support for the Video Gallery
Features
Customizable Skin with CSS
Dynamic FullScreen Mode (supports resizing)
Video Buffering Status
User-Friendly Sound Controller
Sharing Widget (Facebook, Twitter, Digg…)
Video Gallery with JSON Support
Supports Preloading and AutoPlay
Supports Flash Fall-Back for old browsers
Works on all modern browsers
Video Gallery
Vplayer has a built-in Video Gallery, which is a simple slider that show up at the end of the video, suggesting the user to replay the video or discover other videos.
The user can scroll through the list of thumbnails and select one
Old browsers compatibility
Vplayer was built with old browsers compatibility in mind. There is a whole section in the help file that explains how you can integrate a Flash player to work with Vplayer in case the browser doesn’t have HTML5 support.
As a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player, VLC video player supports most multimedia file formats, including discs, devices, or network streaming protocols.
This widely-welcomed multimedia player developed at an astounding speed. From the birth year of 2005 to this year 2012, the total downloading figure reaches 1 billion. According to some data analysis, the majority downloading is from Windows platform (about 89%); and that from Linux and Mac is much lower, yet at a high installation rate. Even people say the actual number could be much more than this.
The new version for Mac Retina screen is available already. This version solves the previously reported problems such as playing in Blu-ray, and video rotation, crop, etc.
To achieve the target of becoming one of the most comprehensive and sophisticated multimedia player, VLC developed the Android version for the users. It is released in the VideoLAN on July 2nd and can be downloaded from Google Play. For the moment, the new version only can support ARMv7 processor, and the developers announced that it will be compatible with more smartphones and tablets in the near future. Temporary, this version is not stable and is slower than the final version.
Jonathan Edwards talks you through the official London 2012 Mobile guide to help you plan, enjoy and share your Games experience. Free to download for your device from http://www.london2012.com/mobileapps
HTML video is an element introduced in the draft specification of HTML5. It allows you to embed a video without using flash. The HTML5 video players support desktop browsers and also mobile devices.Below are some wonderful HTML video players.
1. HTML5 Video:HTML5 Enables Web Pages to playback and edit video and audio through platforms and devices.
RealPlayer is the best Android app to enjoy your music, videos, and photos. Download RealPlayer Beta from the Android Market today, and take it for a test drive. Be sure to post feedback, because we want to make sure we're giving you what you need.
RealPlayer Beta for Android is a great media player that makes it easy to organize and play music, showcase photos and videos – and to share media with your friends on popular social sites like Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and Picasa.
Take Control with these Features
All-in-One Media Player for Android
More user-friendly than ever, RealPlayer includes an intuitive user interface, playlist editor, widgets, searching, content folder selection, fast scrolling, and a ton of other features to make your media experience more enjoyable.
Copy all files to your Android device
Connect your Android device to your computer.RealPlayer opens to the device view in Library. (If you need to find the device view manually, click the Library tab, then select your device from the Library sidebar.)
Windows Media Player (abbreviated WMP) is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices. Editions of Windows Media Player were also released for Mac OS, Mac OS X and Solaris but development of these has since been discontinued.
In addition to being a media player, Windows Media Player includes the ability to rip music from and copy music to compact discs, burn recordable discs in Audio CD format or as data discs with playlists such as an MP3 CD, synchronize content with a digital audio player (MP3 player) or other mobile devices, and enable users to purchase or rent music from a number of online music stores.
Windows Media Player replaced an earlier application called Media Player, adding features beyond simple video or audio playback.
Windows Media Player 11 is available for Windows XP and included in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. The default file formats are Windows Media Video (WMV), Windows Media Audio (WMA), and Advanced Systems Format (ASF), and its own XML based playlist format called Windows Playlist (WPL). The player is also able to utilize a digital rights management service in the form of Windows Media DRM.
Windows Media Player 12 is the most recent version of Windows Media Player. It was released on July 22, 2009 along with Windows 7 and has not been released for previous versions of Windows.
BBC has just launched the new version live interactive player earlier this July, which meanwhile introduced the BBC beta application of BBC sports on Facebook. BBC said all this is done for welcoming the soon arrival of the coming London 2012 summer Olympic Games.
This new version interactive player will provide 24 HD video streams accompanied with the function of reminding you of important watches and other information as well as some statistics. Such player is compatible with personal computer and also can be applied to tablets that support flash technology. Then you can watch live show of Olympic anywhere ever possible.
There is also a simplified version for the exclusive use of iPad and other portable devices that cannot support flash format. However, with the simplified version, many interactive functions won't be available.
BBC Sport Facebook app also supports stream video. In addition, there is easy access for the users to learn about what their friends are watching, and what the most popular matches are at the moment.
Won't that be wonderful? You can watch the games with your friends, and share your enjoyment. Such kind of live video player certainly would be a nice tool for the sports lovers. As the Olympic Games will be on in 9 days, let’s expect this great moment together.
VLC Media Player is a longtime open-source favorite, and the latest version offers fixes and feature enhancements for the Mac version that make it a must download. It's not the only option for free video playback, but it's one of the best, and it's often the go-to media player for Mac users who can't seem to play a specific media file.
VLC Media player offers a number of tools and customization options to manage and watch video. Users get frame-by-frame advancement; granular speed controls allowing for on-the-fly slower or faster playback; and live recording of streaming video. The toolbars are fully customizable, so you can have only the buttons you need in the interface.
This version comes with improvements to the interface, support for MxPEG files and streaming, and more. Along with minor tweaks, VLC continues to offer robust support for a wide range of video and audio formats, including OGG, MP2, MP3, MP4, DivX, HD codecs like AES3, Raw Dirac, and even support for playing back zipped files. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
The default interface was improved in recent updates, but integrated skinning can make it even better. Behavior can still be a bit unpredictable depending on the quality of the skin, but VLC's open-source foundation and community ensures that it evolves quickly and often, with new features and fixes released frequently.
Overall, VLC Media Player is a must-have application for its ability to open just about any type of video file you throw at it, making it a great option for Mac users having trouble playing certain file types.
KMP is a versatile multi media player which can cover a various different types of contained formats.
Without any separate Codec, you are able to play any media files because KMP has its' own internal Codec. Supported Codec are separated by internal & external. For the sound Codec, KMPlayer supports AC3, DTS, MPEG1, 2, AAC, WMA 7, 8, OGG & etc. and it additionally supports matrix function/normalizer function when internal sound Codec is being used. Internal Codec gets processed inside of KMPlayer so it’s faster & safer. Also KMPlayer supports all the Codec from ffdshow and it additionally supports MPEG1/2. If you’re a user who finds it inconvenient to install Codec, who has a low CPU computer and/or a user who strives for an excellent multi-media playback player, you’ll be able to modify your environment to a convenient multi-media format by using KMP.
KMPlayer supports 3D format (side-by-side, top and bottom) videos with a low CPU Memory share and provides an optimized, stable playback through GPU support. With a one click of a button, you’ll be able to experience the amazing 3D home cinema world and you conveniently can enjoy 3D Contents without downloading with 3D Movie Plus Apps being provided by KMP Plus.
Through KMPlayer, experience vibrant and sharp, high-resolution 3D movies at home.
from kmpmimedia
MX Player is the first Android video player that performs multi-core decoding. According to the test results on dual-core devices, it shows up to 70% performance improvement than single-core devices.
Features of MX Player:
Multi-core Decoding - MX Player is the first Android video player that performs multi-core decoding. According to test results on dual-core devices, it showed up to 70% performance improvement over single-core decoding.
CPU Optimize - Provides Codecs and Rendering Engines highly optimized for processors including ARM® NEON™ and NVIDIA® Tegra™
Pinch Zoom - Easily zoom in and out by pinching and swiping across screen.
Subtitle Scroll - Scroll on subtitle text and playback position will be adjusted to match previous or next subtitle timing.
Kids Lock - Keep your kids entertained without having to worry about making calls or touching other apps.
Fully supports Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.
Playback:
Plays almost every movie files including .3gp .avi .divx .f4v .flv .mkv .mp4 .mpeg .mov .vob .wmv .webm .xvid and many more.
Processor optimization
1.High speed rendering for ARM® NEON™ compliant processors.
2.Provides processor specific Codecs including Tegra 2 processor.
Audio track can be changed dynamically.
Quickly change decoding mode - Click S/W or H/W button on the screen while playing to change decoding mode seamlessly.
The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other Macromedia and third party tools. Flash Player was created by Macromedia and now developed and distributed by Adobe Systems after its acquisition. Flash Player supports vector and raster graphics, 3D graphics, an embedded scripting language called ActionScript and streaming of video and audio. ActionScript is based on ECMAScript, and supports object-oriented code, and may be compared to JavaScript. Flash Player has a wide user base, with over 90% penetration on internet connected personal computers,and is a common format for games, animations, and GUIs embedded into web pages.
Flash Player is freely available as a plugin for recent versions of web browsers (such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Safari) on selected platforms. Google Chrome integrated the player into the distribution. Each version of the plugin is backwards-compatible.
Flash Player is used internally by the Adobe Integrated Runtime (Adobe AIR), in order to provide a cross-platform runtime environment for desktop applications and mobile applications. The runtime supports installable applications on Windows, Linux, Mac OS, and some mobile operating systems such as iOS and Android. Flash applications must specifically be built for the Adobe AIR runtime in order to utilize additional features provided, such as file system integration, native client extensions, native window/screen integration, taskbar/dock integration, and hardware integration with connected Accelerometer and GPS devices.
from wikipedia
In the previous blogs, we've discussed many video players for i-devices, such as AVplayer, movie player, etc. This time, the video below will introduce another cool player-Rush Player. It is about how to gain the full version activation code for Rush Player+.
Netflix began rolling out a new fandangled video player for PCs today. Besides beefing up the playback with added options, information, and video accessibility, the video service also redesigned the control bar to be more user-friendly.
There are a handful of notable new features to the video playback. First, the control bar has different options that include access to subtitles, previews of the next episode, and previews to the whole season (if users are watching a TV show). If users click on the previews to the whole season, a box will pop-up that lets them watch previews from within the same screen. Also, if the video stays paused for a few seconds a text overlay will show up saying what the user is currently watching.
Things seem to be looking pretty bright for Netflix this week. Just earlier today the company announced that it was winning back former customers who quit the service after its controversial price hike last fall.
According to GigaOM, which first reported the new video player, users can also resize their browser window while watching videos. This can help users multitask while watching Netflix and also may help sizing if using the streaming service with a connected television set.
From cnet
As have been introduced in previous blogs,BUZZ Player is a powerful media player for your iPhone/iPodTouch to browse, organize and play all your media files. Beside all audio and video file types supported by iPhone OS system (mp3, aac, caf, wav....) it also supports play various other common media file types that iOS system doesn't support such as wma, avi, divx, flv, iso, vob, mkv, rmvb ...
We've known about what Buzz Player is and its main screen, now let's get to know its playback screen from the pictures shown below:
"CineXPlayer is a very versatile video app for your iPad","The app is frequently updated to add new features, and CineXPlayer is something I expect to use a lot." Mel Matin Tuaw
"CineXPlayer, the excellent, rock-solid, play-anything video player for iOS, had gotten yet another big update. Every time the app is bumped to a new version, I wonder what the developers will be able to add next time. And today’s answer is… Quite a lot." Charlie Sorrel / Cult of Mac
Automatic Download of DVD Covers
AutoMagic IMdb lookup - Player Screen Includes new IMDB button to instantly pop up info about movie
Screenager [Multiscreen] Mode - Rotate IPAD to portrait during playback allows you to simultaneously watch your movie and Surfing the web
Send/Sharing/Watch your movies instantly over Wi-Fi with friends and family
Remote Control CineXPlayer using any web browser (Requires Wi-Fi)
Load your Movies using any Web browser over Wi-Fi
CineXPlayer to CineXPlayer transfer of Movies (ideal for sharing your home movies) - Requires WIFI
Multiple Move Management of Movies ; use the Search & Edit button to tag multiple files and moved to a folder
Shuffle Mode (allows random playing of movies/movies) idea for parties
MP4, MOV, M4V can now be played direct from Dropbox Cloud
Screenshot Function - Allows saving of screenshot to CameraRoll (ideal for note taking during educational videos)
Video Downloader - allow movies to be directly downloaded from the Web
