Playing video on an Android device can sometimes be a bit of a chore. The platform’s native media framework has very limited support for mainstream formats and can really only play H.264 video that is ...

Update: RockPlayer is now available from the Android Market. You can read about the full version here. RockPlayer is hands down, the best video player I’ve tried ...

Update: Check out our list of 12 of the best video players for Android RockPlayer is kind of the holy grail of video players for Google Android. It’s an app that can handle virtually any video format ...

David is the former Editor-in-Chief of Android Police and now the EIC of Esper.io. He's been an Android user since the early days - his first smartphone was a Google Nexus One! David graduated from ...

RockPlayer is a video player for Android that uses FFmpeg to support a wide range of media formats including xvid and mkv.