Archos Video Player v8.1.12

Posted by Flashing Room on Wednesday, June 10, 2015

ARCHOS makes Video Player app available for all Android tablets and phones (requires Android 4.0 or later)!

The critically acclaimed Archos video player app offers an uncompromised multimedia experience.
- Hardware accelerated video decoding support for most devices and video formats;
- Ability to play content from any computer/network storage in your local network (SMB and UPnP) or from an external USB storage device;
- Automatic online retrieval of Movie and TV show information with poster and backdrop for both local and network content;
- Integrated subtitle downloader;
- Network indexing: import remote shared folders (SMB) in your multimedia library;
- Video browsing with either folder or library based navigation;
- Ubiquitous access to TV shows sorted in a series/season/episode hierarchical view;
- Multi-device network video resume;
- TV friendly: dedicated user interface that is keyboard/remote control compatible, AndroidTV compatibility ;
- Share and keep track of what you have watched using Trakt scrobbler (see http://trakt.tv/);
- 3D video: visual tagging and side by side/top bottom playback mode with Archos stereo virtual reality glasses or cardboard support;
- Audio: night mode and audio boost options;
- Android 5.0 Lollipop support with flat/material user interface design.

* Note that if you experience any issue with video hardware decoding you can force software decoding in Archos Video Player application settings to watch your video.

What's New
8.1.12 - June 9th, 2015
- Fix HEVC playback for freebox mini 4k
- Fix torrent streaming on x86 platforms (e.g. Nexus Player)
- Allow to remove files from network shares media library on long press
- Fix black outline not present for subtitles on AndroidTV (no touch interfaces)
- Improve robustness of video hardware decoding on some platforms (e.g. Amlogic)