Just (Video) Player vs Vanilla Music
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
Just (Video) Player
Android video player based on the ExoPlayer library. It uses ExoPlayer's FFmpeg extension with all its audio formats enabled (it can handle even special formats like AC3, EAC3, DTS, DTS HD, TrueHD etc.). It properly syncs audio with the video track when using Bluetooth earphones/speaker. Supported formats * Audio: Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, ALAC, PCM/WAVE (μ-law, A-law), MP1, MP2, MP3, AMR (NB, WB), AAC (LC, ELD, HE; xHE on Android 9+), AC-3, E-AC-3, DTS, DTS-HD, TrueHD * Video: H.263, H.264 AVC (Baseline Profile; Main Profile on Android 6+), H.265 HEVC, MPEG-4 SP, VP8, VP9, AV1 * Containers: MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV, Ogg, MPEG-TS, MPEG-PS, FLV * Streaming: DASH, HLS, SmoothStreaming, RTSP * Subtitles: SRT, SSA, ASS, TTML, VTT HDR (HDR10+ and Dolby Vision) video playback on compatible/supported hardware. Features * Audio/subtitle track selection * Playback speed control * Horizontal swipe and double tap to quickly seek * Vertical swipe to change brightness (left) / volume (right) * Pinch to zoom (Android 7+) * PiP (Picture in Picture) on Android 8+ (resizable on Android 11+) * Resize (fit/crop) * Volume boost * Auto frame rate matching on Android TV/boxes (Android 6+) * Post-playback actions (delete file/skip to next) * Touch lock (long tap) * No ads, tracking or excessive permissions To load external (non-embedded) subtitles, long press the file open action in the bottom bar. The first time you do that, you will be offered to select root video folder to enable automatic loading of external subtitles.
Vanilla Music
Music player with a simple interface similar to the stock music player. Supports browsing by folder, queueing, shake-to-skip and more. Supports the same audio formats as the stock music player since the system media APIs are used. This is a fork of https://f-droid.org/packages/org.kreed.vanilla which is no longer being developed by its author. We keep that in the repo as it supports Android versions below 4.0.3.
| Feature | Just (Video) Player | Vanilla Music |
|---|---|---|
| License | Unlicense | GPL-3.0-only |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHub | F-DroidGitHub |
| Categories | MusicMedia PlayerVideo | MusicMedia PlayerVideo |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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