Cool it is available in Bulgaria. I have noticed something strange. When i'm playing xvid movie the film starts and than after 5 6 sec the video freezed and than for about 6sec only the sound running. After that everything is ok except the cyrilic subs i want to run. Is it the same with u guys?
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VLC for iPad coming next week?
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Yes i did. Just a little freezing at the start but after that everything seems to be ok.
I've tried three different video types: a real media file, and h.264 video encoded with Handbrake's iPod legacy preset, and an 720p mkv.
The real media file doesn't even show up (though plays just fine in VLC on Windows 7), the mkv shows, but won't load a thumbnail and when played, there is no picture or audio, and the h.264 mp4 won't show a thumbnail and plays garbled.
All three of these vids play just fine on the desktop version of VLC. Very disappointed. Hopefully these issues will be addressed in updates.
The real media file doesn't even show up (though plays just fine in VLC on Windows 7), the mkv shows, but won't load a thumbnail and when played, there is no picture or audio, and the h.264 mp4 won't show a thumbnail and plays garbled.
All three of these vids play just fine on the desktop version of VLC. Very disappointed. Hopefully these issues will be addressed in updates.
Okay riddle me this Joker......
With apps like Good Reader, iBooks, etc one can open email attachments via those apps or in some cases a choice of apps.
With VLC one cannot open media email attachments. Is this a limitation of the app that can be addressed later or is it going to be (presumably) a limitation of Apple?
Thanks
With apps like Good Reader, iBooks, etc one can open email attachments via those apps or in some cases a choice of apps.
With VLC one cannot open media email attachments. Is this a limitation of the app that can be addressed later or is it going to be (presumably) a limitation of Apple?
Thanks
OK, its version 1.0 and a port of an open-source project at that. I'll cut the company a lot of slack and give them an E for effort. But yes, this is not the VLC we are all accustomed to on a "real" computer.
Give it a few versions. I'm sure WMV support (which it doesn't right now), better integration with the native iOS apps, etc are all possible. If you want the features, support the company who published this. From what I can tell, they did so as a "marketing-ware" kinda venture, meant to garner some good publicity for their other paid apps.
Give it a few versions. I'm sure WMV support (which it doesn't right now), better integration with the native iOS apps, etc are all possible. If you want the features, support the company who published this. From what I can tell, they did so as a "marketing-ware" kinda venture, meant to garner some good publicity for their other paid apps.
I'll cut them some slack too, though I do find it strange that VLC can't play an mp4 video that the iPod app plays just fine when synced to the iPad via iTunes.
Me too - I suspect that because of the uncertainty of this being approved by Apple, they didn't want to put too much effort into it.
Now that it's approved, I'm sure (hope) they will improve it to where it should be.
How's this compare to Cinexplayer, particularly with xvid files? Ever since the update came out, it's been playing my videos and I like how they fixed the "menubar" thing.
Well, for 4.2 CineXPlayer is still better. VLC doesn't work at all with the new beta.
I am playing mp4 videos with no issues, I got s0me problems with some Avi files, but I think it have to do with how they were encode
Most of the movies I'm trying to play are xvid/divx and for me, VLC plays a superset of the videos that Cinexplayer plays. I had a few files that Cinexplayer would crash out on or give me the "will not play" notification and all of these played on VLC. Having said that, there are still a bunch of files that VLC won't play for me and when it fails, VLC crashes out far less gracefully than Cinexplayer. Instead of a "will not play" warning box, it just freezes and then force closes and dumps me back on the home screen. I'm not worried, this is the first release. I'm sure it will be great after a couple of updates. As for the files VLC didn't play well, I had a few mp4 files that were not optimized for iPad and these were really laggy and juttered a lot.
cinexplayer sux a lot. The sound and video doesnt match at all. Vlc works just fine. Only the subs are my program.
RMVB files don't show
I added a few rmvb files through iTunes to VLC. I can see that they are being added to my iPad. However, after syncing, when I open the VLC app on my iPad, it tells me that nothing is in my library. I am assuming that rmvb files are not supported?
I added a few rmvb files through iTunes to VLC. I can see that they are being added to my iPad. However, after syncing, when I open the VLC app on my iPad, it tells me that nothing is in my library. I am assuming that rmvb files are not supported?
