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Best Movie player for ios: RushPlayer
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Just curious: what players did disappoint you and in what area (playing back what kind of video files)? Knowing this, I can tell you for sure whether RushPlayer is going to disappoint you or not.
Thank you for the help.
I'm not gonna tell the names, cuz I don't have the mood for argument with some crazy fan that comes from nowhere (trust me, I met enough).
Anyway,for those two, one sucks in 720P MKV(I haven't double checked but I think it's MP4+AAC?), one sucks in 720P RMVB, in average/common data rate(I downloaded them from movie sharing forums, not some HD maniac forum), and they both play the other filetype pretty well, though I'm not perfectly satisfied with the one that plays rmvb well.
So, to put it simple, I wanna know if Rushplayer can play both 720P MKV and 720P RMVB pretty well, or plays 720P RMVB as good as PC does?
Before I have done enough research, I'm very reluctant to throw in extra dollars, I already bought two and there're even plenty of free players that can play at least one of them to a tolerable extent.
Also, I tried Rushplayer lite on the livestream (TV channels) and the connection is not quite stable (while my broadband is), I wonder is there any difference on that between paid version and lite version?
1. If you aren't jailbroken (read: can use either RushPlayer+ or XBMC), it's better to forget playing back MKV's entirely. If you do find a player that plays them back perfectly (GoodPlayer, generally, plays back most 720p content on the iPad 2/3 OK, but this doesn't mean it'll play ALL 720p files just fine), you'll still have a much worse battery life because of the very high CPU usage.
2. why don't you remux the MKV's to standard MOV / MP4 / M4V files? If you have a Mac, Subler works just great and is very easy to operate. And it's VERY fast. Most players (incl. the stock Movies) play back these files just fine.
3. I'll be able to elaborate on the RMVB compatibility very soon.
All in all, unless you ABSOLUTELY must use MKV's and in no way have time to remux them into M4V's, I can't recommend you anything. Usable MKV players only exist on jailbroken devices.
This MAY change in the near future, though. The latest beta of "It's Playing" plays back MKV files almost flawlessly. It's, however, not available in the AppStore yet - the currently available one is pretty bad and in no way recommended.
Thank you for your time, I do have time for remuxing (and rushplayer team even wrote a program to do it on ipad, haven't tried it though). It's just that I'm an advocate of the "it just works" philosophy
, I'd rather grab my laptop to bed in that situation(it has a nine-cell battery, enough for two full-length blockbuster movies). Since pod2g just announced the exploit also works for 5.1.1, I'll probably just wait a few weeks and buy myself a few chocolate bars instead of any in-appstore media players . I've heard of XBMC, a friend with jailbroken devices told me it is a no brainer. Might give rushplayer+ a try though, if the TV live stream can work stably.Unfortunately, it isn't very good. (Have thoroughly tested it.) In order to avoid linking to my blog (=self-promotion), let me copy the entire section from my original article elaborating on the converter:
Mkv2mp4
I've also thoroughly tested Mkv2mp4 from the same developer as that of RushPlayer. Unfortunately, I in no way can recommend it. It could only remux only one (h264_720p_mp_3.1_3mbps_aac_shrinkage.mkv) of the numerous test MKV videos (I use all the standardized test MKV videos accessible HERE): one that already had AAC audio (and no subtitles). The other test videos resulted in the following:
264_1080p_hp_4.1_40mbps_birds.mkv (no audio!): progress indicator quickly flashes but the app doesn't, then, convert
vc1_1080p_ap_l3_18mbps_ac3_hddvd.mkv: nothing happens
h264_1080p_hp_4.1_10mbps_dts_unstyled_subs_monsters.mkv : stays at 0%
h264_720p_hp_5.1_3mbps_vorbis_styled_and_unstyled_subs_suzumiya.mkv : stays at 0%
xvid_480p_as_l5_1mbps_he-aac_foreign_subs_matrix.mkv: nothing happens
h264_720p_hp_3.1_600kbps_aac_mp3_dual_audio_harry_potter: -. The first audio track is converted to static noise; the second results in a crash at either transcoding or playing time. (The resulting file of the second is useless)
h264_720p_hp_5.1_6mbps_ac3_unstyled_subs_planet.mkv: stays at 0%
Note that almost every of them could be reliably converted (along with subtitle migration) with the desktop-side conversion tools.
All in all, stay away from Mkv2mp4, at least for the time being. It's just plain incompatible with a lot of audio / subtitle formats, unlike the desktop (de)muxer tools (avidemux for MKV -> MP4 conversion and audio recoding; iMkvExtract + Subler (+ Jubler) for subtitle migration).
I am using XBMC with Windows 7 as the upnp server.
I also manged to get an .avi file to work but all other formats attempt to play then the screen shows a large blue musical note and I'm returned the last directory.
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Prolly an incompatibility issue. What other UPnP-capable iOS players have you tried? GoodPlayer?
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sadly not free as in free beer
The Cydia version IS free unless you need menus.
Currently using GoodPlayer, but would like to try this one out... Any promocodes left by any chance?
Thanks!
--rob
Thanks!
--rob
1, are you working for Velestar Private Enterprise? You have four posts; every single of them recommends a product of them (VM Player and vSSH). You should at least post a quick remark like "I know I may be biased but..."
2, I do NOT recommend VM Player. Theoretically, it's a nice app but, in practice, both the video decoders and the streaming module have a LOT to be desired. For example, its SMB compatibility is far worse than that of GoodPlayer / XBMC - it didn't work with my password-protected OS X share. (GoodPlayer worked just fine.) Its UPnP support is also pretty bad - it showsjJust a dark screen when streaming (downloading works). After switching to SW decoding, it works. GoodPlayer works just fine in streamed, HW-accelerated mode under exactly the same circumstances.