HS Player

HS Player is a fast, lightweight Android video player. Play local videos or HTTP/HLS streams, and send them straight to your TV with Chromecast.

■ Local video library

• Every video on your device, automatically organized by folder

• Thumbnails, durations, file sizes and dates at a glance

• Continue watching — unfinished videos gather at the top of Browse

• Mark favorites for quick access

• Open from file managers, Gallery, downloads and messaging apps

• Set as your default video player

■ Network streams

• Paste an HTTP or HLS (m3u8) URL and play instantly

• Works with your own media server or any public stream address

■ Intuitive gestures (MX Player style)

• Swipe up/down on the left: brightness

• Swipe up/down on the right: volume — boost up to 200%

• Swipe left/right: seek

• Double‑tap: skip backward/forward — 5, 10, 15 or 30 seconds

• Hold the screen for 2x speed, release to go back

• Playback speed 0.25x–4x in fine steps, aspect‑ratio modes (fit / fill / stretch)

• Tap the time display for time left

• Screen orientation follows the video — portrait or landscape

■ Comfortable for long sessions

• Screen lock — a pocket or a curious child cannot interrupt the video; hold to unlock

• Repeat (one / all) and shuffle

• Sleep timer — 15 to 90 minutes, “end of this video” or “end of the queue”

• The sound fades out before playback pauses

• Open the play queue from the player and jump to any video

• When the last video ends, replay it or go back to the list

• Media info in the ⋮ menu — resolution, codec, bitrate, decoder

• Favorite a video from the player’s top bar

■ Subtitles

• A subtitle file next to your video (.srt/.smi/.ass) loads automatically

• Korean (CP949) subtitles display correctly, not as garbled text

• Open any subtitle file, or pick a track embedded in the video

• Adjust text size, and nudge timing by ±0.5s when it drifts

• Subtitle color, background, bold and margin — all adjustable

• Pick the audio track on multi-language files

■ Playlists

• Group videos into playlists

• “Play all” with continuous playback, no interruptions

■ Home‑screen widgets

• Playlist widget: open your playlists right from the home screen

• 1×1 shortcut widget: launch a favorite playlist with one tap

■ Background playback & media controls

• Keeps playing while you use other apps or with the screen off

• Previous / play-pause / next from the lock screen and notification

• Headset and Bluetooth buttons control playback

• Pauses for calls, other apps' audio, and unplugged headphones

■ Picture-in-picture

• Leave the app while playing and keep watching in a small window

• Browse in landscape on tablets and foldables

■ Send to a TV

• Chromecast and Google TV, and Samsung or LG televisions without one (DLNA)

• Subtitles come too — sidecar files are converted and shown on the TV

• Send a whole playlist; the next follows, gaplessly on Chromecast

• While it plays, the phone is the remote: play, skip, seek and TV volume

• Control TV volume with your phone’s volume keys

• Start from a folder, a selection, a playlist or the TV tab

• Remembers your last TV, so it connects without searching

• A dropped connection reconnects itself, or falls back to the phone

• Videos a TV can't play are flagged first

• Otherwise, HS Player points you to the system screen‑cast settings

■ More

• Korean and English UI, following your system language

• No account, no servers — favorites, playlists and positions stay on your device

• Free, supported by banner ads

Permissions

• Read videos (READ_MEDIA_VIDEO): required to browse and play videos on your device. Photos and audio are never accessed. On Android 14+ you can grant access to selected videos only.

• Notifications: playback control notification

• Nearby devices (NEARBY_WIFI_DEVICES): asked for only when a TV search finds nothing. Never used to work out where you are.

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