DivX Player Mobile:Rich Movie Player for Mobile

Jul 6, 2010 by Shivendu Madhava

A rich movie player from the guys who started it all…

Symbian users are lucky to have the robust Nokia media player packaged with their phone. Indeed, its support for different file formats and easy control scheme makes for quite a great player. As for Windows Mobile users, we curse them daily for having phones compatible with TCPMP.

Still, in case you aren’t happy with either of those players and seek a viable alternative, then you might want to check out DivX Player Mobile.

Developed by DivX — the guys who invented that lovely codec we all use — the player is a slimmed-down version of the popular desktop software. You will be made to register on the site before downloading the player, but you can always circumvent this part since the player is freely available on thousands of pages across the Web.

Fully compatible with both touchscreen and non-touchscreen phones, the program has surprisingly small keys that can be operated with the stylus or a keypad. We pity the touchscreen users here, because it’s quite a pain to access the keys. Hopefully, future versions of the program will fix this.

The program supports all DivX, AVI and MPEG files, and can automatically scan your phone’s memory to throw up compatible files.

The reason we are recommending this player is because of the display settings it offers. No mobile screen is the same as another, and brightness and contrast vary a lot. DivX Player’s ability to alter such settings makes for much clearer picture-viewing.

Platforms: Symbian, Windows Mobile

Price: Free

Download: www.divx.com/mobile