LitePlay
Small Android video player for local files and m3u8/mp4
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A small (~2 MB) Android video player for Android 8+. Plays local files plus m3u8/HLS and mp4 links, loads external subtitles and resumes where you stopped. No media is bundled. Only network permissions are requested and there are no analytics/tracking SDKs. The free version shows ads; an optional offline VIP key removes them. Built on AndroidX Media3.
PH · launched Oct 22, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%) · 0 views
Niche: video players and display software · 91 launches, 7 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- GitHub
- Video
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More like this: all 91 launches in video players and display software →
Could you build this?
Yes A small Android player that handles local files, HLS and MP4 playback, and external subtitles can be built on the open-source ExoPlayer/Media3 library. A solo developer can vibe-code it quickly.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 784 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #571 of 785 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 257 days after the earliest competitor.
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- AndroidPlay · github · 2026-09-29 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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