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iPad 2 owners: how about mkv & divx's?
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In ipad 1, with oplayer i can see divx's withouth conversions.
My question is if any of the ipad 2 owners have tried with an mkv file.
because ipad 2 is more powerful than ipad 1, mkv files should be played ok.
divx is a broad range of films. Some may play, others wont without conversion.
MKV is a container file, much like a zip file, it wont be supported natively on iPad 2 and would be very surprised if there is some app out there that will play them without conversion.
MKV is a container file, much like a zip file, it wont be supported natively on iPad 2 and would be very surprised if there is some app out there that will play them without conversion.
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.
OK, thanks, that´s i want to know. Anybody has tested oplayer or something similar in his ipad.
Thanks!
Thanks!
Air video will do the live conversion from my Mac playing mkv's and others and AirPlay to my atv2.
I have the vlc app, but haven't put any movies on my ipad2.
I have the vlc app, but haven't put any movies on my ipad2.