MX Player Pro is an all-in-one media player app with advanced features, supporting various media formats, subtitles, and audio tracks. It allows users to play and watch any media file, stream content, and control playback.

Introduce about MX Player Pro

For most smartphone users, it’s always more convenient to watch videos and clips on their phone instead of using the big screens. Although the experiences would probably more satisfying on a larger display, you won’t have the level of portability like using smartphones.

That being said, you can enjoy watching your favorite movies at anywhere anytime with your smartphones. On the other hand, you can’t always carry your TV or monitor everywhere you go due to their relatively large sizes.

And to enjoy movies on smartphones, you’ll also need a good media player to help to deliver the high-resolution images and realistic sound effects. The Mx Player Pro, being one of the best media players for Android devices, should be your first priority when choosing an app for watch clips on your smartphones. Find out all about it with our review.

What does it do?

The app is essentially a video player but it comes with many more useful features that would enhance your experiences. You can use the app as an external video player for movies apps or watching online videos using it. In additions, you can add subtitles by loading the files on your storage. All in all, it’s a relatively complete media player with lots of advanced options and customizations.

Requirements

For the app to work properly, you’ll need to provide it with a few permissions:

To prevent unwanted gestures on the display screen which might affect your experiences, the app allows users to turn on the input blocking feature. This would neglect any physical touches that you apply on the screen unless you tap on the unlock button. However, you’ll need to provides the app with the “Draw over other apps” permission.

Having a Bluetooth headset or speaker would greatly enhance your satisfaction when watching a movie, and MX Player Pro allows the users to do exactly what they want. Still, you’ll have enabled the “Pair with Bluetooth devices” permission before being able to use the features.

In additions, you can keep watching without being disrupted by allowing the “Disable screen look” and “Control vibration” permissions to ensure your phone stay awake and undisrupted throughout the process.

Kindly note that if you fail to provide these permissions, you’ll have to restart the app and grant it with the following permission to start using its features.

Awesome features

Being one of the best media players on the Android platform, the app undoubtedly has many impressive features. Here are the ones that we think you’d love:

Accelerated hardware

The app comes with a hardware acceleration technology which takes advantage of the powerful HW+, HW, SW decoders to speed up the processing speed. As a result, the images and audio quality are greatly enhanced. However, you need to apply the right decoder to the right media file to have the best results.

Utilize the multi-core processor

With most smartphones nowadays comes with quad-core, octave-core processors, and even more powerful ones, it’s such a shame if applications cannot take advantages of those hardware improvements.

Thankfully, the developers at J2 Interactive know what they’re doing and has done a great job adding these awesome features the utilize the power of the multi-core processor. As a result, videos are loaded faster and every command is executed more fluent.

Simple gestures

To allows users to enjoy their moves in a more relaxing fashion, MX Player Pro comes with convenient gestures for simple commands. You can wipe back and forth on the screen to rewind or fast-forward the content. Up and down on the left to control the brightness, on the right to control the volume. Double tap to stop, double tap again to start playing. And there are also dozens of other gesture commands which you’ll figure out once you’ve installed the app.

Keep your kids from tweaking your phone

Allowing your kids to watch videos on your phone is the simplest way to keep them silent and obedient. However, it’s their nature to be curious so they’ll not likely to stay put and watch their videos. Instead, most kids would try to “abuse“ your smartphone by touching on the screen, enabling dozens of unwanted command.

A simple solution for this matter is to use the “kid lock” or “touch screen lock” to prevent your child from accidentally making phone calls or doing unrelated things which watching the videos.

Subtitle enabled

For foreign movies, you’ll at least need to have the right subtitle to understand the content. With MX Player Pro, users can conveniently download the subtitle files from online sources and load it from your in-app setting. Hence, you can enjoy relaxing hours watching your favorite movies with subtitles.

Free to use

Users can enjoy both versions of the app which are free or paid on the Google Play Store. Either of which, you’ll have relaxing moments. The free version doesn’t lack any features compared to its pro counterpart, the only thing that might bother you is the ads.

Enjoy the mod version

That being said, if you don’t like ads and still want to experience the pro version, you can try installing our mod version. By going to our website and downloading the MX Player Pro APK file to your devices, you can enjoy an add-free experience without being bothered.

In additions, to reduce the storage requirements of the player, we’ve also removed all the language except for English and Russian, which makes the app a lot smaller. Hence, you can still enjoy this awesome application without sacrificing too many storage spaces.

As an attempt to make the app faster and smaller, our developers have also removed the unnecessary features as well as utilized the codes to make the apps faster. In additions, those who’re bored with the old colors can choose to customize the color setups depending on their preferences.

Drawbacks

Can be quite slow if using the wrong decoder

Although the app comes with 3 impressive decoders, you might experience stutter images or inconsistent audio quality if using the wrong decoder. To prevent this, you should let the app choose the suitable decoder for you instead of intervening in the process by selecting it manually.

Final verdicts

With many awesome features as well as powerful decoders, MX Player Pro is undoubtedly the best media player for Android devices. Hence, you won’t likely to be disappointed having this installed on your devices.