Playing AVI files on iPad

[braaains]

I heard good things about "it's playing", which is supposed to be very good at playing back all file formats.
I tried it with a few HD samples, and it really struggled whereas AVPlayerHD played them back fine, so I'd recommend that.

I've also tried Azul and VLC, both of which I found to be not as good as AVPlayerHD.

 

[IsaacM]

Just get AVplayerHD and play any kind of video file, including divx avi and mkv. It's flawless.

 

[Angra-mainju]

so why did they pull the VLC down from the app store?

 

[Weaselboy]

Just get AVplayerHD and play any kind of video file, including divx avi and mkv. It's flawless.

+1 This is what I use also and it works well.

so why did they pull the VLC down from the app store?

There was a complaint that the Apple license was in conflict with the Gnu Public License (GPL) and the software was removed.

 

[Ronnoco]

Another happy AVPlayer HD user here...plays everything I throw at it and I play A LOT of video on my iPad2...

 

[Shoesy]

I'm just fully into XBMC right now. Only reason to jailbreak if you ask me.

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=XBMC_for_iOS_specific_FAQ

 

[AppleHater]

For SD contents, AVPlayerHD serves perfectly. For HD contents, I use AirPlay to stream them in. Those who with iPad2, how's your luck with 720p movies on the system? I hope by iPad3, we could play any 720p contents without having to encoding them for iPad.

 

[caflorin87]

This is exactly what MKVTools does. It pulls out the video from the avi into an mp4 with no conversion, then just converts the audio. Takes minutes rather than hours. It's a solution I used a lot when I used to stream to my iPhone 4.

The only snag is that the iPad 2 can't go above 720p, so all your sources need to be 720p or less. Anything that's 1080p will need the video converted.

 

[takeshi74]

This is exactly what MKVTools does. It pulls out the video from the avi into an mp4 with no conversion, then just converts the audio.

How exactly? The AVI container format can contain many more codecs than MP4.

 

[smoking monkey]

I've got both Cinexplayer and AVplayerHD, but I use Cinex because I can't seem to get AVPHD to sync the sound properly. I admit, I haven't tried it in a while and will try again.

But yes, Cinex won't play everything I throw at it but I mainly watch SD avi's for the file sizes as I travel a lot and want to have a large choice on my IP2. And I won't go near airplayer. No connection means no video equals no point.

 

[Consultant]

I've got both Cinexplayer and AVplayerHD, but I use Cinex because I can't seem to get AVPHD to sync the sound properly. I admit, I haven't tried it in a while and will try again.

But yes, Cinex won't play everything I throw at it but I mainly watch SD avi's for the file sizes as I travel a lot and want to have a large choice on my IP2. And I won't go near airplayer. No connection means no video equals no point.

Cinexplayer works for mostly everything for me. I think if you email developer they will look into stuff that doesn't work.

 

[connoisseur]

Flex player apple app store

 

[thunng8]

This is exactly what MKVTools does. It pulls out the video from the avi into an mp4 with no conversion, then just converts the audio. Takes minutes rather than hours. It's a solution I used a lot when I used to stream to my iPhone 4.

The only snag is that the iPad 2 can't go above 720p, so all your sources need to be 720p or less. Anything that's 1080p will need the video converted.

FYI, with iOS5, the iPad2 now supports 1080p video decode.

 

[rilayne]

I currently use a program called Wondershare Video Converter Platinum. It works great - it is simple and the output quality is excellent. However, the one issue I have is the size of the video output. For example, when I convert a 350MB TV Show episode to the Ipad-quality setting (H.264 - optimized for iPad) the output size is 759MB :-O Are mp4 files normally this larger than avi files or is it just the particular setting of this program?