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Most people know MX Player as the app that finally played that one weird video file their phone refused to open. It has grown well past that. These days it also carries a library of free movies, web series and shows, which makes it interesting to anyone who follows entertainment releases and wants somewhere to watch them without paying for another subscription.
Running it on a Windows machine changes the feel of it. The gestures that define the phone version become mouse actions, the subtitle controls get easier to aim at, and a 24-inch monitor flatters the streaming catalogue far more than a 6-inch panel does.
Local files first
The core of MX Player, published under the name J2 Interactive, is still the local playback engine. It scans storage, groups everything into folders, and shows thumbnails with duration stamps. On a desktop it fills the window with a grid that is easy to skim.
What the app is known for is codec tolerance. The HW+ decoder pushes hardware acceleration onto files that would otherwise fall back to software, and MX Player was the first A...
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