Not recently updated — last update was on 2012-11-16.
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Vimu Media Player for TV is a feature-rich Android TV/STB media player designed for local and network playback with robust 4K hardware decoding. It supports UPnP/DLNA, SMB, WebDAV, and NFS, offers external SRT subtitles, and a TV-optimized Leanback experience. Not ranked in top lists, it has 100,000+ total downloads and 200 in the last 30 days.
Pros & Cons
TV-optimized Leanback UI for easy navigation
Broad format and codec support including 4K hardware decoding
Extensive network and local playback options (USB, SMB, WebDAV, DLNA, UPnP, NFS)
External subtitles and multilingual audio support
Requires external media sources (USB drive or network shares); no built-in content.
Only compatible with Android TV boxes and TV devices (not for tablets/phones).
4K hardware decoding depends on device capability and support.
About Vimu Media Player for TV
Vimu Media Player for TV is a video players & editors app developed by GTVBox.net.
Download Statistics
Vimu Media Player for TV has been downloaded 100 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 200 times.
User Ratings
Vimu Media Player for TV is rated 4.06 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 710 ratings.
App Information
Vimu Media Player for TV costs $2.99 to download. The last update was on November 16, 2012.
Technical Requirements
Vimu Media Player for TV requires Android 5.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play August 2012.
Description
Key features: - One minute setup! - Optimized for the TV. - Support for most common file formats: MKV, AVI, MP4, MOV, FLV, TS, MPTS, WMV, DIVX, 3GP, VOB, MP3, FLAC, ALAC, JPEG (depends on device capabilities). - Hardware decoding up to 4k (HEVC/VP9) on Android TV for compatible devices. - Grid, list and double list navigation. - Works as UPnP Renderer (DLNA Push) on Android TV. - Simple and fast Leanback UI for Android TV. - Android TV Picture-in-Picture mode support (7.0+). - Navigation and playback from internal storage, SD cards and USB drives. - Navigation and playback from Windows shares (SMB). - Navigation, search and playback from UPnP/DLNA servers. - Navigation and playback from WebDAV servers. - Navigation and playback from NFS servers. - Switching audio tracks in multilingual files. - AC3, EAC3, DTS pass-through on Android TV. - Support for external SRT subtitles in any encoding (you need to have an srt (lower case extension) file in the same directory as your movie file like movie.mkv and movie.srt). - Support for embedded MKV, MP4 in SSA/ASS,, SRT, DVBSub and VOBSub formats - M3U playlists support. - Streaming (progressive download) from HTTP/HTTPS sources.
Application does not contain or provide any content! You need to have USB drive with media files or attach a network share (SMB, WebDAV, etc).
This app is ONLY compatible with TV boxes and TV-sets. Tablets and phones are not supported!
Documentation: http://www.vimu.tv/
Official support forums: Support Group: https://groups.google.com/group/gtvbox
If you have no sound while playback, your video file might have unsupported audio track. If some of your files fail to play you can get refund for 3 days after purchase.
Apps is compatible with all official Android TV units. App MAY BE compatible with some non-official TV Boxes based on Android 6.0 and higher.
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Best player for the revue so far plays more codec video files than the video player that come with the device a great adition to the revue
★★★★★Henry Vallejos· Jul 7, 2015
Smart Developer Great app to buy for Sony NSZ-GT1 with a network hard drive. I can actually play all my formats with this app, when I had a connection issue 2yrs back I actually got help from the developer and solved the problem. Works with 1st gen Ipad streaming videos from most non subscribed websites though on the same sites it doesn't work with my android phone. Hopefully the developer fixes that issue, other than that this app is the best for older Google tv devices. I must purchase.
★★★★☆A Google User· Jun 17, 2014
Good App, Best for SMB Streaming This app works great for streaming just about every media format you can throw at it - EXCEPT for anything with DTS. This is a limitation of Google TV, not Vimu. I've noticed that switching between video formats in the same viewing session will cause the player to slow down and eventually crash. A reboot will fix it, you can prevent it by occasionally exiting the application then restarting.
★★★★★Istvan Horvath· Mar 8, 2017
It's a great application for my Sony Bra via 55XS7005. I had many problems with the Sony Android native player when play from DLNA server. This player is the most stable what I tried. Maybe some features would be nice when select the audio stream and subtitle. I prefer to have a popup window to select the languages. And a most useful features would be a button for just toggle switch on/off the subtitle. When I watch some movies with more subtitles (3-4 or more) and just want to switch on /off without going through all the languages before off.
★☆☆☆☆A Google User· Nov 9, 2014
90% of movies will NOT play! I've paid for this app, but I'm not able to use it. About 90% of movies will NOT play because the audio is not decoded - i.e. this app cannot decode audio formats.
★☆☆☆☆A Google User· Aug 15, 2013
Not playing certain files won't play a lot of my movies. doesn't work any better than the free video players. Actually worse!
★★☆☆☆A Google User· Aug 28, 2013
Nfs doesn't work yet having trouble getting nfs to work. Maybe the format of the expected value doesn't match but can't find documentation on it. Overall navigation on the app is terrible. Has those strange facebook-app-style overlays that don't work well for a tv, and they get stuck over the "open url" button. I find I have to use http server to copy url to video then paste into vimu -- maybe vimu doesn't get associated with video files in android. Gets 2 stars just because It's marginally better than the browser's built-in video play that leaves scrubber and controls on screen during entire video and vimu also allows quick aspect switch.
★☆☆☆☆A Google User· Aug 18, 2014
No good it keeps on opening YouTube videos when I am playing a mkv file. Subs keep stacking on top of each other
★☆☆☆☆A Google User· Dec 23, 2013
Keep crashing when I checked "Index Content" option in UPNP it kept crashing in my sony GTV GS7. I bought this because I wanted to see my movies' collection with cover arts. Very disappointed.
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Trust & Safety: No permissions are listed in the data; the app relies on user-provided media sources (USB, SMB, WebDAV, DLNA). This reduces exposure to sensitive permissions typically associated with content delivery. Supports Android TV devices and provides official documentation and support channels.
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