Hi, i want to buy and ipad 2, and i want to know if you have tried to play mkv files or divx in oplayer or vlc. With hdmi out maybe?
Thanks!
They will need to be converted.
As was already mentioned, MKV is just a container format, not a video codec. MKV can contain videos encoded in MPEG 2, MPEG 4 ASP (which is used by Xvid), MPEG 4 AVC (which is used in native Apple MP4 files) and various other formats. The performance you will see depends entirely on the encoding of the video. Not being able to play one particular MKV file does not mean you can't play any.Yes i have tried buzzplayer, oplayer hd, cinexplayer, yxplayer and vlc, but on my iPad 1, and on 1 mkv play is too slow and audio doesn't go with video, i think than the gpu of ipad 2 can play mkvs ok
As was already mentioned, MKV is just a container format, not a video codec. MKV can contain videos encoded in MPEG 2, MPEG 4 ASP (which is used by Xvid), MPEG 4 AVC (which is used in native Apple MP4 files) and various other formats. The performance you will see depends entirely on the encoding of the video. Not being able to play one particular MKV file does not mean you can't play any.
That said, the MKV container format can at this time only be read by 3rd party players. And to my knowledge these players can not use hardware-accelerated video decoding on the iPad (since Apple does not expose public APIs for this), so they have to do the decoding in software.