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The new iPad plays HD MKV files perfectly!

Decker said:
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Yeah, I use Subler, does the trick nicely. Only downer is - and I'd happily be proved wrong - you can't batch convert a load of files, meaning you have to do each individually. Someone please please tell me I'm wrong, it'd be great if I could queue a load of mkv's up.
 
yegon said:
Yeah, I use Subler, does the trick nicely. Only downer is - and I'd happily be proved wrong - you can't batch convert a load of files, meaning you have to do each individually. Someone please please tell me I'm wrong, it'd be great if I could queue a load of mkv's up.
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I just started using Subler, and I think the newest beta download has a "sent to queue" button in the upper right corner. I haven't tried it though.
 
yegon said:
Yeah, I use Subler, does the trick nicely. Only downer is - and I'd happily be proved wrong - you can't batch convert a load of files, meaning you have to do each individually. Someone please please tell me I'm wrong, it'd be great if I could queue a load of mkv's up.
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I wish I could say you're wrong but alas you must convert each file individually. It does a great job and is free though. :)

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aperry said:
I just started using Subler, and I think the newest beta download has a "sent to queue" button in the upper right corner. I haven't tried it though.
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Downloading the beta right now… i'll let you know if there is batch functionality.
 
Ttplayer

I recently found TTPlayer... and it has retina display. Plays everything that I have thrown at it so far.
 
Geeze, nice that TTPlayer pretty much copies AVPlayer's screen shots.
 
If I have some 4-5GB 1080 mkv rips and don't have access to getting AVPlayerHD, can anyone recommend what settings I should use to convert them to something the new iPad will play without getting choppy or loosing quality? Thanks.
 
MastahRiz said:
If I have some 4-5GB 1080 mkv rips and don't have access to getting AVPlayerHD, can anyone recommend what settings I should use to convert them to something the new iPad will play without getting choppy or loosing quality? Thanks.
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Subler

I have remuxed quite a few 720p and 1080p videos to .m4v and they all play perfectly on the iPad 2, iPad 3, ATV2 and ATV3. They even stream over wifi to the iPads/ATVs perfectly.
 
Decker said:
Subler

I have remuxed quite a few 720p and 1080p videos to .m4v and they all play perfectly on the iPad 2, iPad 3, ATV2 and ATV3. They even stream over wifi to the iPads/ATVs perfectly.
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Thanks! There wouldn't happen to be a windows version of that, would there?

Thanks again.
 
Interesting about being able to queue in Subler, very good, I'll investigate that.


MastahRiz said:
Thanks! There wouldn't happen to be a windows version of that, would there?

Thanks again.
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Pretty sure mkv2vob does what you want in Windows. It's what I used to use for my PS3 before I found Subler for mac.
 
i tried to play some 1080p mkv and m2ts files using CinexPlayer, VLC and AcePlayer. All three of these failed miserably.

do they not support hardware acceleration or something? i couldnt even get 1 fps.
 
Can try to play a normal movie? I guess that will put the hardware to its limits instead of some manga series.
 
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How does AVPlayerHD compare to Flexplayer. Flexplayer is free and plays pretty much anything too.
 
simba2585 said:
i tried to play some 1080p mkv and m2ts files using CinexPlayer, VLC and AcePlayer. All three of these failed miserably.

do they not support hardware acceleration or something? i couldnt even get 1 fps.
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1080p plays on AV HDplayer but frame rate is not ideal.
 
Good spot re: the Subler beta finally allowing queues/batch conversion! Works exactly as expected, bravo.
 
yegon said:
Good spot re: the Subler beta finally allowing queues/batch conversion! Works exactly as expected, bravo.
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How long does it take to convert a mkv to m4v in subler? I use handbrake on a Windows PC and it's taking 3+ hours to convert (on a i7 quad core!).

I've read that some apps can quickly convert by just changing the "container", but haven't found anything that does it quickly.
 
dmylrea said:
How long does it take to convert a mkv to m4v in subler? I use handbrake on a Windows PC and it's taking 3+ hours to convert (on a i7 quad core!).

I've read that some apps can quickly convert by just changing the "container", but haven't found anything that does it quickly.
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Less than a minute on a typical 1.19gb mkv on my mba. It's not transcoding it, that takes a while even on a beastly system like you say.

Well worth the time it takes, make a difference when playing them back on the iPad as it hw decodes m4v's, gives better battery life and playback.
 
yegon said:
Less than a minute on a typical 1.19gb mkv on my mba. It's not transcoding it, that takes a while even on a beastly system like you say.

Well worth the time it takes, make a difference when playing them back on the iPad as it hw decodes m4v's, gives better battery life and playback.
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My mkv's are rips from Blu-Ray and are more like 20-30GB per movie! How are you getting 1.19GB mkv files? That can't be 1080p nor a full length movie.

If I use subler on my mkv's, am I going to have same size m4v's or will they be smaller like using Handbrake (4-7GB per 1080p movie)?
 
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