I've not personally used this, but the reviews do look really good for it.
The critically acclaimed Archos Video Player app offers an uncompromised video experience on tablets, phones and AndroidTV devices.
*** Play everything *** - Play videos from your computer / server / NAS (SMB, UPnP, FTP*, SFTP*) - Play videos from external USB storage - Videos from all sources seamlessly integrated in a unified collection - Automatic online retrieval of Movie and TV show descriptions with poster and backdrop - Integrated subtitle download - Torrent streaming* (previously downloaded .torrent files can directly be opened by the application ; note that no torrent search engine is included in the application)
*** Best Player *** - Hardware accelerated video decoding for most devices and video formats; - Multi-audio track and mutli-subtitles support - Supported file formats: MKV, MP4, AVI, WMV, FLV, etc. - Supported subtitle file types: SRT, SUB, ASS, SMI, etc.
*** TV friendly *** - Dedicated “leanback” user interface for Android TV - AC3/DTS passthrough (HDMI or S/PDIF) on supported hardware: Nexus Player, NVidia SHIELD TV, Rockchip and AmLogic based tv-boxes - 3D support with side-by-side and top-bottom playback modes for 3D TVs - Audio Boost to increase the audio level of poorly encoded files - Night Mode to dynamically adjust the audio level
*** Browse the way you like *** - Instant access to recently added and recently played videos - Browse movies by name, genre, year, duration, rating - Browse TV shows by seasons - Folder browsing supported, if you prefer it old-school style ;-)
*** And even more! *** - Share and keep track of what you have watched using Trakt scrobbler* (see http://trakt.tv/) - Multi-device network video resume - Use descriptions and posters from NFO files when available - Scheduled rescan of your network content (Leanback UI only) - Private mode: temporarily disable playback history recording - Manually adjust subtitles synchronization - Manually adjust audio/video synchronization
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cantonbean
25 Jul 17#1
I use this app all the time. It's by far the best video app on android in my opinion. Can also organise your media like in KODI. The one thing is you need to add support for certain formats. They charge you for this. However if you search the play store someone has created an app you run once called archos player all codecs that does what you'd expect and it's free!
mrew42
25 Jul 171#2
Archos = fail
borosidf
26 Jul 17#3
Expired?
Alvie
26 Jul 173#4
MX Player Pro seems to be the better option, but it costs mote. (It has been 10p before)
eatmorefish
26 Jul 17#5
Not v helpful when hukd make these things hot well after they have expired.
Phil_G
26 Jul 17#6
Does anyone know if this does anything that Kodi does not do? Other than the .torrent file playing, I cant see anything. Oh, and Trakt integration now that Exodus has been blocked.
Tempted, even at full price, just to see what the Kodi competition is like.
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The critically acclaimed Archos Video Player app offers an uncompromised video experience on tablets, phones and AndroidTV devices.
*** Play everything ***
- Play videos from your computer / server / NAS (SMB, UPnP, FTP*, SFTP*)
- Play videos from external USB storage
- Videos from all sources seamlessly integrated in a unified collection
- Automatic online retrieval of Movie and TV show descriptions with poster and backdrop
- Integrated subtitle download
- Torrent streaming* (previously downloaded .torrent files can directly be opened by the application ; note that no torrent search engine is included in the application)
*** Best Player ***
- Hardware accelerated video decoding for most devices and video formats;
- Multi-audio track and mutli-subtitles support
- Supported file formats: MKV, MP4, AVI, WMV, FLV, etc.
- Supported subtitle file types: SRT, SUB, ASS, SMI, etc.
*** TV friendly ***
- Dedicated “leanback” user interface for Android TV
- AC3/DTS passthrough (HDMI or S/PDIF) on supported hardware: Nexus Player, NVidia SHIELD TV, Rockchip and AmLogic based tv-boxes
- 3D support with side-by-side and top-bottom playback modes for 3D TVs
- Audio Boost to increase the audio level of poorly encoded files
- Night Mode to dynamically adjust the audio level
*** Browse the way you like ***
- Instant access to recently added and recently played videos
- Browse movies by name, genre, year, duration, rating
- Browse TV shows by seasons
- Folder browsing supported, if you prefer it old-school style ;-)
*** And even more! ***
- Share and keep track of what you have watched using Trakt scrobbler* (see http://trakt.tv/)
- Multi-device network video resume
- Use descriptions and posters from NFO files when available
- Scheduled rescan of your network content (Leanback UI only)
- Private mode: temporarily disable playback history recording
- Manually adjust subtitles synchronization
- Manually adjust audio/video synchronization
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Tempted, even at full price, just to see what the Kodi competition is like.