
Since viewing media is the main reason people download apps like VLC and MX Player it makes sense that the developers for MX Player keep releasing new features that enhance the media viewing experience. There are no distractions with the viewing experience until you absolutely want there to be. The reason I like this interface better is because it’s all designed around viewing your media as quickly as possible. Modify subtitles, look for help on the app and even click on the folder icon to find other content you might want to view. MX Player offers similar options, but it’s all condensed into the corner so you can always access the menu whenever you are watching a movie. Overall, the VLC player works just fine, and they give you an easy menu to Search, Refresh your content and switch between the different options such as Video and Audio. That said, I started to realize that although it’s more familiar for me to have a menu where I can choose my directories and types of media, MX Player is really designed around viewing videos, and they try to push you to the content as soon as possible. When I first started playing around with the MX Player user interface I wasn’t a huge fan, since it brings you directly into the media on your device, and it doesn’t really offer a nice menu area like VLC. VLC is one of my favorite PC media players, since it supports just about any type of format, but I’d like to wait and see what other features they can incorporate after they get past the beta stage. MX Player is still the king of media players, since it has been around the longest and it provides features such as subtitle gesture controls and panning during a video.

You can’t do any online browsing or sharing with MX Player, so if you want to share something with a friend then you are out of luck.

MX Player includes ads, but you can get rid of these by paying for the Pro version.
