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Advanced Android media player built on mpv with Material 3 UI, adaptive panels, and Jellyfin casting. Features subtitle swipe seeking, background playback, gesture controls, lossless FFmpeg clipping, and extensive subtitle management including Arabic support. Requires broad storage permissions for local media access.
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About this app
Based on mpvEx, with additional enhancements and optimizations built on top.
Subtitle Swipe Seeking: Intuitive gestures to jump between subtitle lines. Refined Tap Logic: Enhanced single-tap response with exclusion zones and reverse double-tap options. Accidental Seek Prevention: Optional ignore-single-tap on seekbar to prevent mistakes. Smart Orientation: Persistent per-video orientation preferences with intelligent fallback. Enhanced Background Playback: Optimized battery-saving mode with seamless, stutter-free transitions. Themed Player Controls: Adaptive controls that dynamically match your app theme or system accent (Material You). Shorts Mode: Optimized vertical playback experience with auto-swipe support for "Shorts" and Reels. Audio Support: Integrated capability to play audio files directly within the media engine. Advanced Thumbnails: Extraction strategy choice (First Frame vs. Specific Position) and network stream previews. Modern Aesthetics: Seamless transitions, custom branding, and specialized "Always Dark Mode" for player. Modular Architecture: Robust Ops/Manager-driven file browser with a unified discovery engine. Unified UI: Standardized media cards featuring reactive "NEW" badges and recursive file/folder counts. Enhanced Navigation: Auto-scrolling synchronized chapters and support for relative seeking. Centralized "More Sheet": Quick access to all player buttons and custom controls. In-Player Interaction: Real-time toggling of over 10+ player settings (gestures, PiP, UI behavior) without leaving playback. Subtitle Management: Visual indicators for primary tracks and integrated online search.
What's new
- ✨ New Features
- Material 3 Expressive Settings**: Comprehensive UI refresh applying connected grouped lists, polished cards, and rounded shapes across all preference screens. * **Responsive Adaptive Panels**: Video, subtitle, and delay panels adaptively dock as side sheets in landscape and bottom sheets in portrait. Jellyfin Remote Target**: Cast media directly to REX Player via WebSocket Play with background keepalive support. Configurable Resume Modes**: Choose resume behavior ("Always", "Ask every time", or "Always start afresh") with a transient quick-restart pill. Notification Controls**: Added repeat mode (Off/All/One) and shuffle toggles directly inside active media notifications. Dynamic Speed Memory**: Option to remember playback speeds set via long-press swipe gestures. Automatic Library Indexing**: Saved clips in Movies/REX Player index immediately for instant sharing or playback. Storage Permission Bypass**: Skip storage permission during onboarding when using network streaming or external file managers. Arabic Subtitle & LTR Options**: Added force Left-to-Right text direction toggle and improved codepage autodetection for Arabic subtitles.
- ⚡ Performance & Optimizations
- Lossless Exporting: Native FFmpeg stream copying enables instant clipping with zero CPU/GPU transcoding overhead. Fluid Panel Animations: Removed container bounds distortion for smooth orientation switches and panel transitions. Core Update: Upgraded mpvRex-libmpv core library dependency to v0.0.9.
- 🐛 Bug Fixes
- Secondary Subtitle Positioning: Fixed overlap issues between primary and secondary subtitles, adding dedicated position offset controls. RTL Metadata Rendering: Corrected reversed text and number-unit ordering in Media Info sheets under RTL locales. Panel Layout Fixes: Resolved text wrapping and scattered slider labels in audio/video panels. Jellyfin Connection Security: Hardened WebSocket authentication headers, sanitized logging URLs, and added insecure HTTP warnings.
About this version
- Version
- 5.1.0 (2122)
- Size
- 36.92 MB
- Requires Android
- 8.0
- Target SDK
- 26
- Architecture
- arm64-v8a
- Downloads
- 15
- Updated
- Sep 4, 2026
- Package
- xyz.mpv.rex
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