Archos video player is amazing

by house_of_kunt

I have a cheap Mi smart TV. It is not an Android TV, but the underlying OS is Android 6. I was looking for a good video player. The inbuilt video player is more than capable, but I was having some issues with sound. Playing 5.1 audio through stereo speakers results in the same old 'quiet dialogue, loud effects' problem. I tried Kodi, which had better sound, but still not that great when it came to range compression. Enter Archos - the 'night mode' is incredible. Does exactly what I needed. Dialogue are aboslutely clear, and for TV speakers, the sound quality is fine. So far I haven't had any issues with it. It has been playing 1080p 10 bit x265 without any hiccups. The cpu usage is slightly higher than Kodi, but nothing to complain about. I haven't installed any codec packs, seems like I won't be needing them.

Kodi now seems a bit overkill for just playing local media. Archos is now my main video player. The beautiful library layout is just an added bonus.

looun

Enable "Android Media player" for better video quality ;)

Step 1: Go to setting and Press several times ok button to "Force software decoding"

Step 2: now software decoding became "Choose Decoder"

Step 3: choose "Android Media player", now Archos Video Player use system player. https://s5.postimg.cc/lsabvy2dz/screen3.png

AlexBlomkvist

Since I mostly use Kodi (switched to MrMC recently) for local playback, I was really excited about Archos as well, until I realised that none of my TV Shows are being scraped.

I have all of them in folders named like the TV Show (example: Lost). Inside the folder, individual episodes are named 1x01 - Episode name, 1x02 - Episode name, 1x03 - Episode name, etc. Unfortunately Archos wants to have the TV Show name mentioned in each individual episode name, which I really dislike. This just looks ugly in my opinion, especially if I sometimes play the same media from on a PC. Since I like everything nicely organizez, I decided not to use Archos instead of renaming all my TV Shows.

On the other hand, if anyone can suggest a workaround, I woul love to be able to use Archos.

EDIT: Both Plex and Kodi can scrape TV Shows named this way just fine.

Invunche

I've been pushing this app in several threads. It's great.