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VLC for iPad Rolling Out to App Stores Around the World, iPhone Version Under Development

Quiddity said:
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...
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Would be nice if MacRumors took care of fake accounts simply for advertising like yours.
 
jzuena said:
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.
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Thanks for the pointer to OPlayer, I had sort-of heard about it before but I didn't realise that it could play MPEG2. At first impression it seems to do a reasonable job although I did briefly notice the audio getting out of sync too. I'll have to put on a longer file to see whether it's a regular problem.

It appears to have support for network downloading but not streaming; although I'm not sure as I couldn't get it to play nice with my Samba server. There were also a couple of oddities with playing Transport Streams. I could only jump forward and backwards, I couldn't scrub to a specific location. Also there wasn't an obvious way to turn off the subtitles embedded in the TS. I ended up having to change the subtitle stream number.

Still it looks like it could be an adequate solution for quickly dumping a few programs onto my iPad for a trip.
 
It's broken.

FYI
This version of VLC for iPad should have been titled "VLC Sync"

It claims to allow streaming, but has no interface for entering an address, thus, it cannot stream a video, say, off a web server.

Yes, this is a fantastic boon to those that don't mind syncing media every time they want to use the app. Great. But I, for one, have avoided syncing at all costs... it is a huge time waster (in regards to media). All my media sits on my web server —the Apache2 built into OS X— basically, the Sites folder in the Home directory, and Web Sharing turned on in System Preferences. No syncing... just use the browser, access to all media instantly, no syncing necessary.

Thus, this version of VLC is useless to me, as it is. zodttd had a port of vlc for the original iPhone (jb) that was more functional than this iPad version, released a few years ago. I am quite disappointed with the new app.

The desktop version, however, is the main media app on my computer... even though development for VLC on Mac has stalled, it is still far superior to any other media player available for Mac.
 
peteo said:
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 :confused:

heaven's
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Haha! Awesome.

Don't think I need VLC personally, but I'm sure there are people that will for their own reasons.
 
Pared said:
Would be nice if MacRumors took care of fake accounts simply for advertising like yours.
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Oh yeah, now I remember why I lurk and don't bother posting... There is always people that are complete jerks to new people.

Opinions are obviously a lot like you....


You know what? People asked in this thread about xvid. I posted my thoughts. People are crapping in their pants about VLC and I don't see a need for it, when I was using something else. Sue me for saying stating my opinion.
 
Quiddity said:
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...
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I apologize for any forum rules I may have broken for suggesting an alternative application. I have been a MacRumors member for almost 5 years and a lurker for much longer. I simply did not know.
I don't work for Klexi, nor have I even downloaded it yet. I just read about it today and noted that it had features equivalent to VLC and many features that VLC does not have.
 
xvid plays great, didn't expect non-gpu 720p to work and it didn't.

However for all those small 170mb single tv shows that were a pain in the arse to convert to h.264 vlc is working great on my ipad. A lot better than cinexplayer which played 1 in 5 files at best and crashed a lot.

This new, more forgiving approval policy from Apple is a win.

When ipad multi-tasking (yeah, yeah quasi) comes out I will for sure software upgrade and get back onto the non-jailbroken path, now vlc is out I only use the jailbreak to run pandora in the background.
 
edcrosay said:
I apologize for any forum rules I may have broken for suggesting an alternative application. I have been a MacRumors member for almost 5 years and a lurker for much longer. I simply did not know.
I don't work for Klexi, nor have I even downloaded it yet. I just read about it today and noted that it had features equivalent to VLC and many features that VLC does not have.
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Dude. I'm sorry I wasn't trying to call you out (I agree Klexi looks slick). I was just pointing out that I wasn't the only one who suggested an alternative. I'm new to posting true, but I've been lurking at macrumors every day for years as well and felt attacked.

Sorry I didn't have the "seniority" to not get picked on... bottom line is the same as the general consensus, that VLC is a let down. That's all I was saying.
 
I don't know why people can't believe apple approved this. I've used an app for some time already called yxplayer that plays every format I've thrown at it including flash. What these apps really need is goodreader and dropbox support.
 
For me AVI videos play smoothly - just one problem. For those encoded with multi channel audio it seems that the voice tracks are not playing. Lots of sound effects and no dialogue.

Cant see how it passed testing TBH.

Hope they fix it though because it could be so good, judging from the video quality.
 
catmistake said:
FYI
This version of VLC for iPad should have been titled "VLC Sync"

It claims to allow streaming, but has no interface for entering an address, thus, it cannot stream a video, say, off a web server.

Yes, this is a fantastic boon to those that don't mind syncing media every time they want to use the app. Great. But I, for one, have avoided syncing at all costs... it is a huge time waster (in regards to media). All my media sits on my web server —the Apache2 built into OS X— basically, the Sites folder in the Home directory, and Web Sharing turned on in System Preferences. No syncing... just use the browser, access to all media instantly, no syncing necessary.

Thus, this version of VLC is useless to me, as it is. zodttd had a port of vlc for the original iPhone (jb) that was more functional than this iPad version, released a few years ago. I am quite disappointed with the new app.

The desktop version, however, is the main media app on my computer... even though development for VLC on Mac has stalled, it is still far superior to any other media player available for Mac.
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This is a great idea!!! I am going to have to try this!
 
christo747 said:
I care about file-types but what about the bad video quality. Am I the only one to have found this? You don't need a trained eye to see the really bad image quality. Just see the comparison I made. Total disappointment.
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You're watching it wrong. :p
 
More important than this particular app is the change in Apple's tactics. Until now they tried to play nice with studios by keeping pirated video content out of iOS devices and Apple TV. But now they say fine, if you don't want to sell your content it's your problem.
 
catmistake said:
FYI
This version of VLC for iPad should have been titled "VLC Sync"

It claims to allow streaming, but has no interface for entering an address, thus, it cannot stream a video, say, off a web server.

Yes, this is a fantastic boon to those that don't mind syncing media every time they want to use the app. Great. But I, for one, have avoided syncing at all costs... it is a huge time waster (in regards to media). All my media sits on my web server —the Apache2 built into OS X— basically, the Sites folder in the Home directory, and Web Sharing turned on in System Preferences. No syncing... just use the browser, access to all media instantly, no syncing necessary.
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That's pretty cool setup, but I would like to see it work on a plane or even a Hotel's wifi network. Usually when I'm home I like to watch stuff on my TV. I have Boxee for that.
 
I use VLC on my laptop numerous times every day.

But add me to the group not totally excited by the iPad version.

In the past five+ months that I've had the iPad I've synched it to iTunes/desktop a total of three times. Until wireless synching becomes available I don't have a lot of interest in managing videos via wired synch.

Is there any other way to get content onto the iPad so VLC can use it (dropbox, etc?)

I realize this may be great for some on-the-go video watching of certain formats not supported in other apps. But if I'm near my laptop I tend to just stream video (mostly divx) via AirPlay.
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7E18 Safari/528.16)

I would have prefered:

Built-in web server (like Air Sharing and Downloader)

OR

Integration with Dropbox, Air Sharing, or something else.

But it doesn't matter to me, I have a jailbreaked iPod, so I'll transfer it from the Air Sharing folder to VLC's.
 
Quiddity said:
Dude. I'm sorry I wasn't trying to call you out (I agree Klexi looks slick). I was just pointing out that I wasn't the only one who suggested an alternative. I'm new to posting true, but I've been lurking at macrumors every day for years as well and felt attacked.

Sorry I didn't have the "seniority" to not get picked on... bottom line is the same as the general consensus, that VLC is a let down. That's all I was saying.
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And spamming the board for another program. Back to anonymity, or until you find a reason to advertise on MR.
 
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