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VLC for iPad Rolling Out to App Stores Around the World, iPhone Version Under Development
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There are a number of us who have huge files in other formats the Touch, and iPad will not play without converting them. Yes I can convert them and for those of you with PC's the dBpower Amp Batch Converter is a fantastic way of converting large numbers of audio files to what a iPod/iPad will play as for videos I have used Any Video Converter (http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video/) for years they have a version for the PC and Apple ( both PPC, and Intel based) But when you have several terabytes of such files it gets to be a royal PIA to convert such large numbers of files, not too mention the space taken up by the duplicate files. There is also the fact there are some codexs such as Flac, and Ape that are lossless and are the codex of choice for maximum fidelity.
i'm excited by this, but i'm also trying to see why i'm excited.
i always have to convert video's to iTunes format before watching them on my iPad.
Now, with the VLC app, i won't have to??
that's it right?
That's the exciting part?
just checking.
i always have to convert video's to iTunes format before watching them on my iPad.
Now, with the VLC app, i won't have to??
that's it right?
That's the exciting part?
just checking.
That was my hope as well. Neither CineXPlayer nor VLC can play the .mpg files that my hardware encoding video capture card outputs. OPlayerHD Lite does, but has a banner add across the top of the screen. If no new version of CineX or VLC comes out I'll have to verify that the audio/video out-of-sync issue mentioned in OPlayerHD reviews won't affect my MythTV content and that the paid version removes the banner and then just go with that instead.
Edit: The audio out-of-sync issue is there, so I would need a newer version even for OPlayerHD.
I downloaded it and .... I was waiting for something usable as opening a video attachment in my Mail app right in my iPad. I use a combination of iFile and oPlayer that work excellent but it need a jailbreaked iPad. I need a non jailbreak option to be able to use iOS as it needed to be. And VLC did not fill that gab yet.
the worst player i've ever seen
why apple approves such useless apps?
it even doesn't recognize the files i uploaded to it's folder via itunes
after a week of waiting for it, absolute disappointment
hell
The worst comment I have ever read
Why does god make such useless people?
It even doesn't understand when it gets something for free via itunes
after years of reading comments on this board, absolute disappointment
heaven's
I kind of get the impression that this doesn't work right under iOS 4.2. Nothing but black screens on EVERY format I've tried, even h.264 files that are natively supported by the operating system.
I get sound, but no picture.
I get sound, but no picture.
This made my day and I still give it 5 stars for even getting approved, but really what is the point?
I've tried to play 25 different Matroska files only to have VLC crash out completely on 21 of them and play a black screen in the other 4. This was let out of the development lab way too early and needs a lot of additional work.
Good for free, but not very good overall.
I've tried to play 25 different Matroska files only to have VLC crash out completely on 21 of them and play a black screen in the other 4. This was let out of the development lab way too early and needs a lot of additional work.
Good for free, but not very good overall.
Awesome
This is the best thing that has happened for the iPad!! Bugs will be fixed .... I love this!!
This is the best thing that has happened for the iPad!! Bugs will be fixed .... I love this!!
I applaud the effort, but of the 10 .avi files that I tried, none of them play smoothly. .mkv did not work either.
Sadly, this is still the best player out there currently for the ipad.
An outdated windows mobile pocket pc plays files better currently.
On the desktop, if VLC won't play it, I find another video to play. I don't even bother to try to find a codec b/c I assume that it's the encoder's fault. It would be nice if the ipad/ipod could do the same thing....5 years after its release. One of the reasons to go with Android.
Sadly, this is still the best player out there currently for the ipad.
An outdated windows mobile pocket pc plays files better currently.
On the desktop, if VLC won't play it, I find another video to play. I don't even bother to try to find a codec b/c I assume that it's the encoder's fault. It would be nice if the ipad/ipod could do the same thing....5 years after its release. One of the reasons to go with Android.
Because it can play pretty much any video or audio format you throw at it? (Not all of us have exclusively iTunes/Apple content.) It's really great on your desktop for those random file formats you may occasionally encounter on the Web (and for some weird things you'd rather not keep on hand, like RealPlayer or Windows Media/Flip4Mac), but it can also play downloaded Flash videos and other formats, even some corrupted ones that other programs can't handle.
Basically, it can do everything you ever wanted and so much more.
However, posts on here seem to indicate that the iPad version is lacking some of this functionality, so it might be less exciting on iPad at the moment. Hopefully, they are working on bringing it up to par.
Obvious that I like what I've been using and feel VLC isn't as good? Yep. That's obvious! Cinex is free if that's what you are talking about... The Klexi guy is pushing that and it's $5. Just because I just signed up, doesn't mean I'm shady, dude. Jaded much?
Whoops had to edit this because "I" downloaded it for free on August 12th... Seems to have gone up in price since then...