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VLC

The best video and music player. Fast and “just works”, plays any file

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About VLC

Video and audio player that supports a wide range of formats, for both local and

remote playback.

Audio:

* Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding (ATRAC1, ATRAC3, ATRAC3Plus and ATRAC9) and PSX ADPCM

* Adobe SWF ADPCM and Nellymoser Asao

* ALAC

* AMR-NB, AMR-WB (a.k.a. G.722.2)

* DK ADPCM Audio 3/4, On2 AVC and iLBC

* DSS-SP

* DTS Coherent Acoustics (a.k.a. DTS or DCA), DTS Extended Surround (a.k.a. DTS-ES), DTS 96/24, DTS-HD High Resolution Audio, DTS Express (a.k.a. DTS-HD LBR), DTS-HD Master Audio, QDesign Music Codec 1 and 2

* DVI4 audio codec

* Full Rate (GSM 06.10), AC-3 (Dolby Digital), Enhanced AC-3 (Dolby Digital Plus) and DTS Coherent Acoustics (a.k.a. DTS or DCA)

* iLBC, Opus and Comfort noise

* IMA ADPCM

* MLP / Dolby TrueHD

* MP1, MP2, MP3, AAC, HE-AAC, MPEG-4 ALS, G.711 µ-law, G.711 A-law, G.721 (a.k.a. G.726 32k), G.722, G.722.2 (a.k.a. AMR-WB), G.723 (a.k.a. G.726 24k and 40k), G.723.1, G.726, G.729, G.729D, IEC DV audio and Direct Stream Transfer

* QCELP-8 (a.k.a. SmartRate or IS-96C), QCELP-13 (a.k.a. PureVoice or IS-733) and Enhanced Variable Rate Codec (EVRC. a.k.a. IS-127)

* RealAudio v1 – v10

* SMPTE 302M

* Speex, Vorbis, Opus and FLAC

* Truespeech

* TwinVQ

* Windows Media Audio (WMA1, WMA2, WMA Pro and WMA Lossless), XMA (XMA1 and XMA2), MS-GSM and MS-ADPCM

Containers and muxers:

* 3GP (.3gp)

How to install VLC

  1. Tap Download — the app's official page on F-Droid opens.
  2. Install it with the F-Droid app (recommended, for automatic updates), or use the download button on that page.
  3. If Android asks, allow the F-Droid app or your browser to install apps, then tap Install.
  4. Open VLC from your app drawer.

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