Mmh, I wonder where those guys are who claimed VLC for iPad would never pass the AppStore-review. There were a few of those morons in the other thread. 
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VLC for iPad Rolling Out to App Stores Around the World, iPhone Version Under Development
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Does it play none apple formats like mkv? can you access video via video lan server?
Mmh, I wonder where those guys are who claimed VLC for iPad would never pass the AppStore-review. There were a few of those morons in the other thread.
They may have been right, had Apple not changed up the rules and loosened things up a bit.
As far as development on mac goes...eh...
VLC author's have already said that Macdevs are in short supply and the decent ones who are in the game are busy making money via apps or industry. Windevs are also in demand, but numerous and can donate more time. I can't code my way out of a paper bag, so i'm just glad we actually have a working mac version. I'll also buy the iPhone version when it comes out, too.
OK, I just played a movie to compare it to oPlayer HD Lite.
The movie was newest White Collar + polish subtitles.
So:
VLC:
+ plays with .txt subtitles (oPlayer works with .sub and .srt only), but Im not able to change encoding - so its useless.
oPlayer HD:
+ Run much smoother than VLC, I click play and it play, on VLC I have to wait few seconds until it start to play smoothly
+ oPlayer HD - video quality is BETTER
+ subtitles has much better font and are at the very bottom of the screen so when movie is in 16:9 subtitles are always on the black part - not on video like in vlc.
I was really hoping that VLC will become my only and favourite player on iPad, like it is on my mac - but well, maybe with next release, for now Im staying with oPlayer HD Lite.
The movie was newest White Collar + polish subtitles.
So:
VLC:
+ plays with .txt subtitles (oPlayer works with .sub and .srt only), but Im not able to change encoding - so its useless.
oPlayer HD:
+ Run much smoother than VLC, I click play and it play, on VLC I have to wait few seconds until it start to play smoothly
+ oPlayer HD - video quality is BETTER
+ subtitles has much better font and are at the very bottom of the screen so when movie is in 16:9 subtitles are always on the black part - not on video like in vlc.
I was really hoping that VLC will become my only and favourite player on iPad, like it is on my mac - but well, maybe with next release, for now Im staying with oPlayer HD Lite.
Imagine merging AirVideo with VLC for iPad. Stream native video to the "AirVLC" application and play any format it support natively. Anything it does not support or that required too much CPU to playback, simply transcode on the "AirVLC" server and stream as mp4 to the iOS device.
This way no need to transfer files to the iPad for playing where there is speedy wireless access.
Also imagine if the AppleTV ever get an AppStore, such an AirVLC would be a killer application!
AirPlay is not likelly to work with VLC as it essentially implement it's own video player... bypassing the iOS Quicktime player that support AirPlay.
This way no need to transfer files to the iPad for playing where there is speedy wireless access.
Also imagine if the AppleTV ever get an AppStore, such an AirVLC would be a killer application!
AirPlay is not likelly to work with VLC as it essentially implement it's own video player... bypassing the iOS Quicktime player that support AirPlay.
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Seems available in US stores, but can't download since at work with just my iPhone 4. Can't wait until I get home.
Seems available in US stores, but can't download since at work with just my iPhone 4. Can't wait until I get home.
Two question here:
1.How do you sync video content to your iPXXYY, manually as a removable hard disk?
2.So what? is VLC more power efficient than the standart video player, or it can play codec other than MPEG-4 like FLV or AVI, WMV like the version under Mac OS X
I've sent several video files over..... non worked? They show up, just play with no sound and a black screen... Hmm..
Um, here's a genuine question (as in, I really don't know the answer, not that I'm trying to lead you to a conclusion in a sneaky fashion):
Why would I want VLC?
I've never used it, so can someone please sell me on this? What does it do for me that I am currently lacking? I gather it plays non-Apple video formats. Um, why would I want those?
Please spell it out for me. I really have no idea why this is such exciting news for the rest of you.
Why would I want VLC?
I've never used it, so can someone please sell me on this? What does it do for me that I am currently lacking? I gather it plays non-Apple video formats. Um, why would I want those?
Please spell it out for me. I really have no idea why this is such exciting news for the rest of you.
iOS 1, iOs 2, iOS3, iOS4 and iOS5 eventuality all have file systems, Apple just locks you out of accessing it.
Same here. I tried an MKV file and got audio only. FLAC doesn't appear to be supported and neither does WMV - I imported those file types and neither showed up as available in the player.
Kind of a bummer - MKV support is what I was looking forward to the most with this.
Well that answers my question about codexs, and playback. I had a fantasy that VLC which I have used for years would enable a Touch, or an iPad to play MKV, Ogg, Flac or other such compression methods. as in NOT! That really is the only thing I wish I could do on and my Touch. I have just short of 3 terabytes of music and somewhere around aTerabyte of video in numerous different codexs. converting them is not really that much of a hassle but still I would settle for Flac if nothing else.
How so? It's the same version as the Windows and Linux ports. Sure there is no hardware acceleration, but that's ffmpeg for you. The UI is also not very Mac-Like, but don't expect that to change.
That's all fine if you're sitting in your home on wi-fi and your iMac ready to stream. So yeah you have no need for this.
Not much help when you're sitting on a plane(no imac and no network), which is my most common use-case for watching video on my iPad.
When I'm home and want to really enjoy video, I go up to my 73" tv with the surround sound, but that's just me.
I haven't seen anything official yet but my first tests where quite disappointing:-
avi - yes
mp4 - yes
mov - yes
mpg - no
wmv - no
flv - no
The unsupported files types just don't show up in the interface at all. I tried to trick the App by renaming a couple of files and unsurprisingly it now crashes.
VLC also only works via content added through the File Sharing interface. Apparently network streaming is going to be added in a later update.
Someone take a .avi and see if .divx and .xvid files perform on them.
Being that it is (apparently) all done via software rendering, there may not be hope of playing downscaled 720p video smoothly.
.avi playback for these types were simply awful using cinexplayer or whatever it is called.
Being that it is (apparently) all done via software rendering, there may not be hope of playing downscaled 720p video smoothly.
.avi playback for these types were simply awful using cinexplayer or whatever it is called.
