Hi Androiders! In this smart age of android phones there is nothing remain impossible in the field of entertainment. Among those subjects viewing high quality videos on phones is also be very important topic. As you all know all high definition files like OGM, MKV, AVI, FLV, MP4, DIVX, WMV rather than 3GP files are often not played directly on phones. That’s why first we convert them in 3GP through any video converter and then play them in phones.
Why phones have not this capability to play high definition files ?
Often all phones rather than high range luxury phones are not have the graphic chip and high speed processor to support any high version of flash player to play high quality files. Cause of this that types of phones can’t play HQ files like MKV, OGM, AVI, FLV via simple hardware decoding.
So is there any solution ?
By research we found that all android phones unless low range phones now can play HQ files directly by software decoding. Means there were some best apps (actually video players) are available in Android market those can perform this task in efficient manner and any android owner can play any type of HQ files on their android phone. So today we are going to tell you about them but first satisfy below terms in your android phone-
Required to play (OGM, MKV, AVI, FLV) Files On Android Phones
1. Android version – Your phones android version must be in order of latest gingerbread or up. So first upgrade your phone’s android version to his available Gingerbread. If you have android 2.2 froyo then no need to worry one of the player is also suitable for this version.
2. Processor – These players must have need about 800 MHZ processor or upwards to play files efficiently. If you have below 800 MHZ then they should disappoint you while playing any file.
This is only condition which is needed in your android phone. Now here we discussed about two best players to play those types of files. So let’s check them out-
[1]. VLC Media Player for Android
In the field of popular media player VLC is the top one. VLC media player is multi functional open source player for both audio and video formats that configured with many interesting features like snapshot, recording, audio amplifier, universal support for all known media files and many more. Still we all are using it in our windows, mac, Linux etc.
Check out the sequential and short info about android VLC player below-
- Compatible handset- Handsets with Android 2.2 or upwards
- Capable of playing files- MP4, FLV, AVI, MKV, OGM etc.
- Status of availability- not available officially , but here it is to try
Pros –
- Universal support for all known media files according to capability.
- One touch switch mode between video and music mode.
- Switch of playback screen in different aspect ratio.
- Screen lock feature to prevent sudden touch to the screen during playback.
- Various types of filters for music
Cons -
- This time it is in alpha / beta stages so can content some bugs
As it can play almost all formats so we recommend to try vlc media player at least once to play HD videos
[2]. SEAMAN PLAYER
Seaman player is the best player among these types of player. It is also be the very much suitable player to play HQ files unless in those phones which have Android 2.2. Check out the sequential and short info about seaman below-
- Compatible handset- Handsets with Android 2.2 or upwards
- Capable of playing files- MP4, FLV, AVI, MKV, OGM etc.
- Status of availability- Free on android market
Pros – Very much efficient in playing AVI and FLV files.
Cons – It sometimes hangs in playing OGM and MKV files in low processor or below 800 MHZ.
Download Seaman player for android
So according to this upper conditions we recommend to try this once at least for playing efficiently FLV and AVI files.
[3]. ROCKPLAYER LITE
Rock player is a lite version player and better than Seaman player. It is also be the best player to play HQ files in android phone. It is often installed in most of android users and very much popular among androiders. It is capable to play most of the HQ video files of PC and where the Seaman player fails in playing some files it gives you better result than Seaman. Check out the sequential and short info about Rockplayer lite below-
- Compatible handset- Handset which are running on Gingerbread firmware of Android
- Capable of playing files- OGM, MKV, FLV, AVI, MP4 etc.
- Status of availability- Free on Android market
Pros – Very much efficient in playing OGM and other types of files
Cons – It is not perfectly capable to play MKV files. It not gives the real sound output and full dialogue delivery while playing MKV files.
So considering the above features and info we recommend this better than Seaman player. But if you have the android handset with low MHZ processor with lower android version then gingerbread than use Seaman.
Download Rock player lite for android
That’s all for today. There were some other player are also in the list of these kinds of players. We discussed about them further but till then first experience these players in your phone
Other player that we later introduce to you- QQ Player and Mobplayer. For this time enjoy (OGM, MKV, AVI, FLV) Files On your Android Phone, and don’t forget to tell us your experience
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Hi
VLC plays most of my mkv files. I do it by opening astro file manager open the file as video and choose vlc. It has worked so far
we also covered vlc player and absolutely it is best one and free , but that time it was in beta.
Thanks a lot for leaving comment adding VLC at no.1 position
you may refer to the following step by step guide on How to Play AVI on Android Nexus One/Samsung Galaxy/Motorola Droid/HTC? at http://www.bigasoft.com/articles/how-to-play-avi-on-android.html
this guide also helps to play OGM, MKV, AVI, MPG, WTV, FLV on android phones