You have seen this intro four times.
Just+ Player is an Android video player for phones, tablets and TV. It opens on your files and network folders, knows where the intro, the recap and the credits are, and offers you one button. The rest of the time it stays out of the picture.
While an episode loads: its backdrop and its logo filling in, when the launching app sends them, and how fast it is arriving. Then the episode.
The intro is ninety seconds. The button is one tap.
Segments come from the app that launched the player, from the file's own chapters, or from several online databases that vote. A segment several of them agree on is the one used.
- Intro and credits, set apart
- Each end of an episode gets its own behaviour: a Skip button for a few seconds, a Skip button for as long as the segment lasts, or a skip without asking.
- Nothing is final
- Every skip can be undone.
- From the file itself
- A chapter counts when its whole name says intro or credits, so a well-made file needs nothing online.
- Drawn where you can see them
- Intros, recaps and credits are a blue band on the time bar and ads an amber one, so you know what is coming before it arrives. The bar at the top of this page is drawn the same way.
It opens on your films, not on an empty player
Three places: Files on the device, Network folders on the machines around you, and Favorites, anything you held a finger on to put aside. A file handed over by another app still goes straight to the player.
- Files
- Rows, tiles with a still from each video, or columns on a wide screen. Each file shows its resolution, size and date, and where you stopped watching.
- Network
- SMB shares, WebDAV servers, DLNA/UPnP media servers and TorrServer, found on the local network or typed in. A share that wants a password asks for it.
- A playlist for free
- The folder a file was opened from becomes its playlist. After playback you land back in the folder, on the file you left.
- Subtitles that are already there
- Files next to a video are picked up by name. When your language is missing, it can search online for your exact file by its hash, by itself.
The picture and the sound, set for the room
Everything that is not a button of its own sits behind ⋮ More, in a panel beside the picture instead of a menu on top of it.
Light around the picture
When a film does not fill the screen, Ambient light fills the bars around it. Glow lights them from the picture's edges, Cinema puts the scene blurred behind it, Echo ripples light out from it, Mirror reflects it as on glass.
Brightness, reach and how quickly the light follows the picture are yours to set.
Behind ⋮ More
Speed, sound, ambient light, picture, the equalizer, skips, a sleep timer, repeat, online subtitles and watch together.
The sleep timer fades the volume out over the last thirty seconds instead of cutting off mid-sentence.
- Picture
- Presets, Vivid, Cinema, Bright and Night, or brightness, contrast, saturation, gamma, warmth, shadows and sharpness by hand. The display's refresh rate, and if you want its resolution, matched to the video.
- Equalizer
- Ten bands, with Film, Voice, Bass, Treble and TV presets.
- For late at night
- Even out loud and quiet, and make dialogue louder than the rest. Volume goes to 200 %.
- For a receiver
- Dolby and DTS pass-through, or surround encoded to Dolby for a receiver that takes no multichannel PCM. Audio delay is kept separately for decoded sound and for pass-through.
- Languages
- Name the audio languages you want, in order, and the player takes the first one the file carries. A track no decoder on the device can play is listed with the reason.
- Subtitles
- Size, colour, bold, background and outline with a live preview. A second line in another language, always or only when you pause, and machine translation when no subtitles in your language exist.
Sized for a remote
On Android TV the app opens on a start page with a card for each place. Every control shows focus the same way, and the d‑pad does what a d‑pad should.
- ◀ ▶Accelerate while held. On a stream a run of presses lands once, after the last one.
- ▼Opens the controls with focus already on the time bar.
- BackCloses a panel and brings the controls back on the button that opened it.
And the rest
- Watch together
- Play, pause and seek in step with someone in another town, by room, code or invite link. On a TV the invite is a QR code. The protocol is LAMPA's lparty, so a viewer there and a viewer here share a room.
- When a stream gives up
- A report in plain language instead of an error code, with Copy, Share and Link. Nothing is sent by itself. Watchdogs catch a load that never starts, a stall mid-film and a picture that stops while the sound goes on.
- What it plays
- AC-3 · E-AC-3 · DTS · DTS-HD · TrueHD · FLAC · Opus · H.264 · HEVC incl. 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 · XviD/DivX · AV1 10-bit · Dolby Vision on supported hardware · MKV · MP4 · AVI · M2TS · HLS · DASH
- For launcher developers
- Another app can hand the player a position, a title with its logo and backdrop, headers, subtitles, quality variants and a playlist of episodes, each with its own segments and resume point. LAMPA, Lampac and Nuvio already do.
The playlist API →
Get it
Android 6.0 or later, one APK for phones, tablets and TV. Installed this way, the app checks for its own updates, shows what changed and installs the new version in place.
What it is not
Not a source of films. It plays the files on your device and your network, and the links another app hands it. It hosts nothing and finds nothing to watch.
Not watching you. No accounts, no ads, no analytics. It makes two requests on its own, and both can be switched off: skip segments for the title that is playing, and GitHub for a newer version. A report leaves only when you press Copy, Share or Link.
Not affiliated with the shows it plays. The screenshots show Game of Thrones © Home Box Office, Inc., with artwork from TMDB, to illustrate the player. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.