MKV player

[rendez2k]

Hi all, is there an app that will play 1080p mkvs from my nas or from FTP for the ipad 4? Or am I asking too much?

 

[Menneisyys2]

Hi all, is there an app that will play 1080p mkvs from my nas or from FTP for the ipad 4? Or am I asking too much?

Only if you jailbreak. It's not possible to play back MKV files off NAS sources (over any protocol - UPnP, FTP, SMB, HTTP etc.) with hardware acceleration on a non-jailbroken device, not even on the iPad 4. (Software decoding needs far too much computing power.)

"Thank" Apple for their absolutely silly restrictions regarding hardware acceleration. It's all their fault - this is why jailbroken apps (RushPlayer+ and XBMC) play back MKV's just fine over UPnP and, with XBMC, SMB.

(More info on all this: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1503346/ and https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=16446551 )

 

[Fant]

Actually you can do it with air video if you are ok with running the server component on your network. It allows h264 passthrue so no transcoding