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Nowadays, we will rarely find a person who does not use an Android phone. And watching videos on an Android is a prevalent thing everyone does. For watching videos, you need a good video player that plays high-quality videos of proper formats like MP4, MPEG, .MOV, 3GP, WPEM, and many more. So, here is the list of some of the best video player for Android. With these players, you can have the most satisfactory experience of watching videos.

1. AllCast
2. MX Player
3. VLC for Android
4. BS Player
5. Local Cast

AllCast

This video player gives you the feature of Reverse Casting. What is Reverse Casting? It means that you can turn your Android phone into an AllCast receiver, and you can have access to content from other devices to your smartphone.

AllCast enables you to watch the content limited to 5 minutes for free, but if you have to enjoy watching the full content, it is available for $4.99. You can buy it and have a wonderful experience watching videos. You can also send your stored content to Chromecast, Roku, AppleTV, Xbox 360/One, and to many more suitable devices.

MX Player

MX Player has always been the best video player application for Android and is one of the most popular video player apps. It was the first one of all video players that came with a feature of multi-core decoding.

It supports almost all the formats of video and audio. It also has a “Child lock” feature with some more features like Gesture control, subtitle support, zooms in and out by pinching and swiping the screen. 

VLC

If you want to play any format video, then VLC is the best choice for you. VLC media player is the one which was popular on PCs also. It has a unique feature that you can stream videos if you have a URL. It supports subtitles, multi-track audio and several gestures to increase and decrease brightness and volume accordingly.

VLC, available at Play Store, is free to download and an ad-free app for playing videos on your smartphone.

BS Player

BS Player is another video player that comes with multi-core hardware decoding. It has all the unique features that a video player should have, like subtitles, playlist support, and support playback mode, which helps in reducing battery consumption. You can also play files from compressed formats.

It is one of the video players popularised on PCs as well before it came as an Android app in the Play Store. You can have access to the full version of BS Player for $5.99. 

LocalCast

LocalCast is the best choice for you if you want to cast your content from cloud storage. It is somewhat similar to the AllCast application and performs some similar functions. It enables you to stream your content to Chromecast, Roku, AppleTV, Xbox 360/One, Amazon Fire TV or Stick, Smart TVs, and to any other DLNA device, which is its unique feature. 

You can have access to subtitles only on Chromecast and AppleTV 4. You need to know that LocalCast only supports format/codecs.