VLC Media Player (Beta) For Android is Out

Finally! VideoLAN has launched a beta version of its famous VLC media player for Android.


The VideoLAN team notes that this beta is intended for power users and hackers and that is not stable and is slower than the final version. It will work only on devices powered by an ARMv7 processor with NEON support but they promise that other devices will be supported by other applications.




Features:

VLC for Android plays most local video and audio files, as well as network streams, like the desktop version of VLC.
VLC for Android has a media library for audio and video files, and allows to browse folders directly.
VLC has support for multi-track audio and subtitles. It supports auto-rotation, aspect-ratio adjustements and gestures to control volume.
It also includes a widget for audio control, supports audio headsets control, covert art and a complete audio media library.




Recommended phones:

Galaxy Nexus (OMAP 4460)
HTC One X (Tegra 3)
Samsung Galaxy S3 (Exynos 4 Quad)
Motorola Defy (OMAP 3610)
HTC Desire (QSD8250 Snapdragon)
Nexus one (QSD8250 Snapdragon)

As this is an early BETA version, a lot of things are not finished, but will change for the final release.

Missing Features:

The basic User Interface will change
Performance improvements are missing
Some audio issues might occur
Hardware decoding works only with a limited set of hardware
Other unknown issues

Permissions:

It needs hardware control, in order to change the audio volume
It needs phone calls control, in order to pause the music when someone is calling
It needs full Internet access to open network streams
It needs to be able to read logs, during the beta version, to understand the issues
It needs to get access to the SD card storage, in order to allow deletion of files