RockPlayer
RockPlayer is a feature rich media player for the Android
platform. It is a dual core player with software decoding for a wide
range of files format, and a system decoding core which makes most of
the hardware for some formats.
RockPlayer Universal runs on all known Android devices. There
are also variants available that are optimised for the Tegra2 platform,
ARMv7+ Neon, ARMv6 + VFP, and ARMv6 processors.
Features:
- Plays a wide variety of video and audio codecs/formats
including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, RealVideo, Vorbis, AVC,
VC1, XVID,
DIVX, SVQ, AAC, AC3, DTS, FLV4, LPCM, ALAW, ULAW, and MPEG Audio
- Dual mode playback
- Hardware mode which offers improved battery performance
- Normal mode using FFmpeg, a cross-platform solution to
record, convert and
stream audio and video
- Control aspect ratio
- Stretch to screen size
- Keep ratio
- Original size
- Resume playing
- Streaming
- Subtitle support (.srt)
- Battery prompt
- Supports m3u playlists
- Media information box
- Haptic feedback
RockPlayer supports a much wider range of video files than the
stock
Android player. However, its compatibility lags behind both DicePlayer
and MX Video Player Pro, with the former offering much better support
for files with higher resolution / higher bitrate, and the latter
offering significantly better support for flawless non-HD
playback.
Disappointingly, RockPlayer was unable to play some videos
encoded in
mpeg2video. Further, the app had problems starting some videos over a
Local Area Network, sometimes requiring the back button to be used to
initiate playback.
RockPlayer does not mask the task bar when watching videos on
a tablet running Honeycomb. Whilst Rockplayer handles some of
the common aspect ratios, it does not handle the
super-widescreen aspect ratios, meaning that it is not possible to
eliminate horizontal
black bars depending on how the video file has been encoded.
Verdict:
There is a lot to like about RockPlayer. It
offers a long list of supported file formats and video/audio codecs,
but is hard to recommend when compared to DicePlayer and MX Video
Player Pro. Had RockPlayer been priced more competitively, we would
have scored it one point higher.
 7/10
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