VLC

This is the official Android port of VLC.

VLC on Android plays all the same files as the classical version of VLC, and features a media database for Audio and Video files and streams.

LibVLC

LibVLC is the Android library embedding the VLC engine, which provides a lot of multimedia features, like:

- Play every media file format, every codec and every streaming protocol - Hardware and efficient decoding on every platform, up to 8K - Network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...) and servers (UPnP, DLNA) - Playback of Audio CD, DVD and Bluray with menu navigation - Support for HDR, including tonemapping for SDR streams - Audio passthrough with SPDIF and HDMI, including for Audio HD codecs, like DD+, TrueHD or DTS-HD - Support for video and audio filters - Support for 360 video and 3D audio playback, including Ambisonics - Ability to cast and stream to distant renderers, like Chromecast and UPnP renderers - And more

License

VLC for Android is licensed under GPLv2 (or later). Android libraries make this, de facto, a GPLv3 application.

VLC engine (LibVLC) for Android is licensed under LGPLv2.