Best Lan apps for Android to play .avi files

[foxmobouser]

Hi, I recently got one of those new internet tablets with android ( Archos 7 Home Internet tablet). My problem is I can't seem to find a app to watch shared .avi movies on my network. Does anyone know of a good app for this?

[Gizmo-guy]

Rockplayer (http://www.anplayer.com/index_en.html) is awesome app for Android. Plays the AVIs I create for my Patriot media player. I use it on my EVO 4G, an awesome phone by the way.

[foxmobouser]

Thx, took a look at the app and it seemed pretty nice but I was unable to get it to install on my tablet, even tried several other versions of it with no luck. Then i tried the Know cpu for rockplayer app from goodle market and it turns out my tablet has ARMv5 cpu and rockplayer not supported :(.

[Gizmo-guy]

That bites, Rockplayer plays my AVIs that are original video size with Dolby AC3 5.1 audio wonderfully.

[avatar852]

You could try Sothink Free Video Converter (http://www.sothinkmedia.com/video-converter/), it supports to convert .avi to avi for different properties. But, what I want to recommend you here is Sothink YouTube Downloader (http://www.sothinkmedia.com/web-video-downloader/), you could download online videos in any desired formats with it. Have a try!

[saintbodhisatva]

try the "Core Player" http://coreplayer.com/

[Gizmo-guy]

try the "Core Player" http://coreplayer.com/

Core Player is not supported on the Android platform.

[luckyemily]

Though Android is developed by the Open Handset Alliance, this smartphone platform only supports H.263, H.264 AVC, MPEG-4 SP and VP8 video format. Hence it is impossible to play AVI on Android phones.

The following will introduce a powerful AVI to Android Converter as well as describe a step by step guide on how to convert AVI to Android supported video format at How to Play AVI on Android Nexus One/Samsung Galaxy/Motorola Droid/HTC? (http://www.bigasoft.com/articles/how-to-play-avi-on-android.html) .

Then it is just easy to stream AVI to Android Phone for playing AVI on Android Nexus One, Samsung Galaxy, HTC, Motorola Droid and G1 and more.

[SamanthaFlowers84]

Good information. Ive tried apps that have always claimed to be able to play avi and other codecs but converting it to the right format is always easiest.

[tyle6]

Get Dice player. cost a few bucks but it runs on everything has full hardware acceleration on most tablets with the required plug in

[happygirlbaby]

Get Dice player. cost a few bucks but it runs on everything has full hardware acceleration on most tablets with the required plug in
could not agree with you more

[ryandigweed]

I just use UpnP play or something like that to locate the files, and then play with VLC beta.

I don't watch many movies on the phone, but I tried a 2.5GB file, and it worked just fine.

[nKwoel]

If your network set to share files, why dont you just browse the movie file and play it on your device default movie player. It can be easier :wave: