MX Player Pro

MX Player is the most widely used movie and MPEG4 player for Android besides the preinstalled players. The player offers more control and features for its users while watching movies on an Android device. Simply put this video player offers more flexibility compared to VLC or any other video player available.

Please note that you need to have purchased a subscription to MX Pro to update using the APK file. THE AD-FREE VERSION OF MX. MX Player’s features include Hardware acceleration, Multi-core Decoding, Subtitle gestures, and many more.

If you don’t want to buy then you can still get the free version of this app. It’s freely available on the Play Store and our website. It can do everything the default Video Player app can do. It also comes with several additional features that are useful and it is an ad-free version.

MX Player Pro supports nearly every popular codec and video format AVI, DIVX, FLV, MKV, MOV, MP4, MPEG, WEBM, WMV, XVID, and more. If you try to play an unsupported file, MX Player will prompt you to install an additional free codec pack that will most likely solve the issue.

Play Movies with Subtitles on your Mobile

MX Player Pro also has excellent support for subtitles almost an identical functionality to VLC Media Player. Not only can it handle multiple subtitle tracks, text styling, and text coloring, but it can read more than a dozen different subtitle formats: SSA, SMI, SRT, SUB, IDX, MPL, TXT, and more.

You can also use gestures to zoom text size, move text around in the screen, or even skip forward/backward in case it falls out of sync with the video. This makes it so easy to navigate and play while you watch.

Other Notable Features of MX Player Pro

Network stream playback. MX Player can stream video files over the internet, such as from cloud storage, as long as you have the direct URL. It cannot stream from sites like YouTube without a lot of complex trickery (not worth the effort when you can just use the YouTube app).

Playback resume. If you close the app or stop playback in the middle of a video, then return to it at some later time, MX Player can resume from where it quit the last time — or it can start over from the beginning. It’ll ask you which you prefer.

Background audio playback. Enable this setting and MX Player will keep playing your video even if you minimize the app and switch to something else, allowing you to listen even as you address a text message or look up something on the web.

Kids Lock mode. Makes it impossible to minimize the app, which is great for when you want to play a video for your kids but prevents them from opening up other apps, making calls, etc.