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Adutrumque

macrumors 65816
Mar 8, 2012
1,438
2
Sweden
Whats with the standard video player on the iPhone? Whats the difference really? And also - are you guys jailbroken?
 

satchow

macrumors 6502
Jul 11, 2011
467
186
Why do people keep saying VLC?

1) Was last updated 2 years ago
2) Not optimized for Retina iPad screens
3) Not optimized for iPhone 5 16:9 screen
4) OP cannot download VLC because it has been pulled from the App Store
 

michaelsviews

macrumors 65816
Sep 25, 2007
1,476
467
New England
Why do people keep saying VLC?

1) Was last updated 2 years ago
2) Not optimized for Retina iPad screens
3) Not optimized for iPhone 5 16:9 screen
4) OP cannot download VLC because it has been pulled from the App Store

VLC is in the appstore now. All different flavors of it.
 

shandyman

Suspended
Apr 24, 2010
6,458
397
Dublin, Ireland
Why do people keep saying VLC?

1) Was last updated 2 years ago
2) Not optimized for Retina iPad screens
3) Not optimized for iPhone 5 16:9 screen
4) OP cannot download VLC because it has been pulled from the App Store

Exactly. Plus it's starting to crash regularly.

VLC is in the appstore now. All different flavors of it.

No it's not. The only VLC app is the remote one and streaming one.
 

hovscorpion12

macrumors 68030
Sep 12, 2011
2,586
2,533
USA
PopUpTube and McTube are my primary video players. PopUpPlayer allowes a semi galaxy S3 pop up player behavior, but only on the app. McTube is more better Youtube viewer.
 

Avatarshark

macrumors regular
Sep 22, 2012
176
9
The Digital Frontier
Why do people keep saying VLC?

1) Was last updated 2 years ago
2) Not optimized for Retina iPad screens
3) Not optimized for iPhone 5 16:9 screen
4) OP cannot download VLC because it has been pulled from the App Store

Looks fine on my iPad Retina, besides the iPhone shouldn't be a problem, from the looks of it, the design is modular
 

jkauff

macrumors member
Oct 4, 2012
99
2
No one's mentioned HD Player Pro yet. It plays most any format, including FLAC audio, and uses hardware acceleration for both MP4/M4V and MKV files. Lots of my titles are in MKV, so I don't have to convert. It also resizes better than the stock player.
 

C DM

macrumors Sandy Bridge
Oct 17, 2011
51,390
19,458
Not anymore its not. It's not retina. Cannot video out properly. Crashes often in iOS 6.
And, again, for the vast majority, not something they can get onto their devices anyway as it's not available in the app store (and hasn't been for quite some time).
 

mrsir2009

macrumors 604
Sep 17, 2009
7,505
156
Melbourne, Australia
It's such a shame that VLC isn't on the app store :( I've got VLC on my galaxy tab, and even though it's only a BETA it's SO much better than the built in player, or any player for that matter: It's simple, it's versatile and it "just works".
 

RoboWarriorSr

macrumors 6502a
Feb 23, 2013
889
52
VLC is in the App Store, I get a lot of artifacting on my iPhone 4s playing 1080p MKVs, on my 5, almost everything plays perfectly, including 10-bit files. Does VLC have GPU acceleration? I remember jail breaking and using XBLM and it does have GPU acceleration but didn't see too much of a difference.
 
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