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sofakng

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Dec 5, 2008
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I have an iPad Air 2 and iPhone 6S+ and several Android tablets. Everything is connected using 802.11ac.

My network storage device is fast (10x 2TB, RAID6) and benchmarks around ~400 MB/s reads.

When I play videos using Android (MX Player) or my HTPC the videos start playing instantly. However, every iOS video player seems to take 10+ seconds before playing any video. Why is this?

The fastest I've seen is AirVideo HD but it often transcodes videos and I was hoping for native playback without transcoding (i.e. like MX Player for Android).
 
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