ExoPlayer vs VLC

ExoPlayer vs VLC: What are the differences?

Developers describe ExoPlayer as "An extensible media player for Android". It is an application level media player for Android. It provides an alternative to Android’s MediaPlayer API for playing audio and video both locally and over the Internet. It supports features not currently supported by Android’s MediaPlayer API, including DASH and SmoothStreaming adaptive playbacks. Unlike the MediaPlayer API, it is easy to customize and extend, and can be updated through Play Store application updates. On the other hand, VLC is detailed as "A free and open source cross-platform multimedia player". It is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

ExoPlayer and VLC can be categorized as "Media Player" tools.

Some of the features offered by ExoPlayer are:

• Application level media player for Android
• Alternative to Android’s MediaPlayer API
• Supports features not currently supported by Android’s MediaPlayer API

On the other hand, VLC provides the following key features:

• Plays everything - Files, Discs, Webcams, Devices and Streams
• Plays most codecs with no codec packs needed - MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3...
• Runs on all platforms - Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, iOS, Android ...

ExoPlayer is an open source tool with 17.2K GitHub stars and 5.1K GitHub forks. Here's a link to ExoPlayer's open source repository on GitHub.