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Next Player

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Next Player is an Android native video player written in Kotlin. It provides a simple and easy-to-use interface for users to play videos on their Android devices

This project is still in development and is expected to have bugs. Please report any bugs you find in the Issues section.

Get it on Google Play Get it on IzzyOnDroid Get it on F-Droid

For Github releases, you can verify the app with the SHA-256 fingerprint certificate: D3:7C:AB:F3:67:6C:F5:82:24:FB:24:2C:8D:D2:09:12:9D:05:88:03:79:29:5F:AA:A6:D0:FB:60:7B:EC:13:1B

Screenshots

Phone

Home folders Demo folder videos Quick settings Grid view Search results Add network connection Appearance settings

Player UI

Phone player controls TV player controls

Android TV

TV home folders TV demo folder videos TV appearance settings

Supported formats

  • Video: H.263, H.264 AVC (Baseline Profile; Main Profile on Android 6+), H.265 HEVC, MPEG-4 SP, VP8, VP9, AV1
    • Support depends on Android device
  • 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
    • Support provided by ExoPlayer FFmpeg extension
  • Subtitles: SRT, SSA, ASS, TTML, VTT, DVB
    • SSA/ASS has limited styling support see this issue

Features

  • Native Android app with simple and easy-to-use interface
  • Completely free and open source and without any ads or excessive permissions
  • Software decoders for h264 and hevc
  • Audio/Subtitle track selection
  • Vertical swipe to change brightness (left) / volume (right)
  • Horizontal swipe to seek through video
  • Material 3 (You) support
  • Media picker with tree, folder and file view modes
  • Play videos from url
  • Play videos from storage access framework (Android Document picker)
  • Control playback speed
  • External Subtitle support
  • Zoom gesture
  • Picture-in-picture mode
  • Background playback
  • Android TV version
  • Search Functionality
  • Subtitle delay
  • Network storage support (SMB/FTP/SFTP/WebDAV)

Planned Features

  • External Audio support
  • Online subtitles download

Contributing

Contributions are welcome!

Translating

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Credits

Open Source Projects

Special Thanks

Thanks to Weblate for providing free hosting for the project.

License

Next Player is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0. See the LICENSE file for more information.