I didn't quote you, I wasn't referring to you.
Additionally, they won't pull it, they have no reason to. The developers pulled it the last time.
Most the web is saying USA get it at 11pm with ROW tomorrow.
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I didn't quote you, I wasn't referring to you.
Additionally, they won't pull it, they have no reason to. The developers pulled it the last time.
Most the web is saying USA get it at 11pm with ROW tomorrow.
Will it Open With (from other apps) Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora files?
Wikipedia has lots of that media, which can't be viewed on iOS... but it easily could as long as some video player would allow Open With. I haven't found one yet that does (for those formats). Safari offers to Open them With various apps I have (mainly storage/file-management apps), but they don't have video playback.
Wikipedia has lots of that media, which can't be viewed on iOS... but it easily could as long as some video player would allow Open With. I haven't found one yet that does (for those formats). Safari offers to Open them With various apps I have (mainly storage/file-management apps), but they don't have video playback.
even if it still supported only software based video processing, i think it's fair to say that the devices now available have considerably more horsepower, enough to not have issues
I'm also very interested in knowing the advantages over AVPlayer HD.
AVPlayerHD has met all of my needs with the exception of not having a way to "Export to Photoroll" or an "OpenIn" feature which is why i usually keep a 2nd copy on another File Managing app such as PhoneDrive or iDownloader in the event that i want to share with a friend via dropbox etc.
I would love to know exactly how VLC would differ not only in terms of Hardware/Software decoding but features as well.
I think its safe to say that most of us are able to play and open any video format with the apps that are currently available, which leads me to believe that VLC might be a little late to the party. A knockout feature seems necessary to make it relevant at this point in time.
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FYI: The iPad 3 is considered to be the 'Worst iPad' ever built in comparison to the other models due to the Retina Display combined with a Slow graphics processor. Which is the reason it was phased out so quickly and replaced by the iPad 4 with a faster gpu and battery that could handle it as well as no overheating.
Testing the video playback of an .MKV file on an iPad 3 is like trying to run an HD Movie on a Laptop from 2001. Just saying... I would hold off on any choppyness comments until users with Current Gen hardware (iPad 4) can confirm these speculations.
Honestly this guy was a big factor in me turning sour on the GPL and the people supporting it. Especially in the last revision GPL is not about software freedom at all, it is rather a way to force some rather silly requirements upon business or software developers. Sad really because some of the concepts behind open source make lots of sense.
The app was available here in NZ before I went to have breakfast... I've since come back and the app is now no longer available...
That was quick!
That was quick!
A lot of speculation of why it's possible to distribute it on app store now.
So the major change is that they've bi-licensed it with gpl and mpl. And Mozilla public license is compatible with app store. So don't blame this french guy, as far as I understand he was "right", gpl is still problematic with app store.
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So the major change is that they've bi-licensed it with gpl and mpl. And Mozilla public license is compatible with app store. So don't blame this french guy, as far as I understand he was "right", gpl is still problematic with app store.
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This is great news! I've never deleted my original copy of VLC; it's the best iOS media player out there. Glad it's legitimately back.
I'm not sure if you are trolling or not but iPad 3 is far from the worst iPad ever. I started with the original and the upgraded to iPad 3 and can honestly say the differences are night and day. Where iPad 1 was nothing more than a proof of concept iPad 3 made the product viable.
If your only metric of value is the ability of a device to do software decode video, then maybe iPad 3 isn't that great. However reality is that few iPads are ideal for this. Overall iPad 3 was a massive improvement over previous versions. Far from being the worst it set new standards of performance and capability for the line up.
That may be if CPU decode is used. Videos that can exploit the built in hardware decode aren't a problem though. To fully resolve this issue I suspect we will have to go beyond iPad 4. It really depends upon the source material and the quality of the decode software.
The other problem that you run into with these CPU based decoders is power usage. It is often advisable to avoid them on the power usage metric alone.
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Right is a matter of perspective here. I would not call this guy right at all. Childish is the best word I can come up with for a public forum.
This case also highlights how the GPL has really morphed into something that is very ugly. While I'm still a fan of open source I've come to have no respect what so ever for GPL 3 and the people who wrote it.
To those who already had the "old" VLC, is this a new product or will it show up as an upgrade to the existing VLC?
It's just that there are two different types of freedom:
GPL : Enforced freedom that you can not relinquish
BSD : Complete freedom, including the freedom to be enslaved
Each has it's purpose and place.
Imagine a free market, where the banks control sizable shares of many companies, and things are setup where it is more "efficient" use of capital to borrow money as needed and return equity to investors as dividends, rather than to simply save money within the company. This would mean that boom and bust cycles would inordinately be compared to the credit expansions and contractions induced by the banks.
Ok, now, given that a boom and a bust were then mostly artificial constructs, and that wages are set by the interaction of supply and demand for labour, then it becomes clear that complete freedom, to hire yourself out for whatever wage you want, would mean that the oligopolies in charge could simply create a recession to skew labour demand, and thus lower the wages as low as they want, even below the poverty line. You now have the freedom to be enslaved. But, with a minimum wage law, you have enforced freedom, which is freedom within bounds, that you can not be coerced to give up. True, unemployment itself would increase, but that would then induce other effects to limit the profitability of the induced recession.
WOW! Off to test it! Will report back - hopefully with a full review!
Hope it's indeed a complete rewrite. The original iOS version, back in late 2010, was really bad in almost every respect, no matter what is stated by some people.
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Definitely. The iPad 3's raw CPU power is in no way worse than that of the iPad 2.
I've made TONS of software video decompression benchmarks (see my in-depth articles here in the iPad app forum: https://forums.macrumors.com/forums/144/ ) and have never found the iPad 3 slower than the iPad 2 during video decoding.
(I have all 9.7" iPad models - 1,2, 3, 4 - so I can directly compare them all.)
Hope it's indeed a complete rewrite. The original iOS version, back in late 2010, was really bad in almost every respect, no matter what is stated by some people.
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Definitely. The iPad 3's raw CPU power is in no way worse than that of the iPad 2.
I've made TONS of software video decompression benchmarks (see my in-depth articles here in the iPad app forum: https://forums.macrumors.com/forums/144/ ) and have never found the iPad 3 slower than the iPad 2 during video decoding.
(I have all 9.7" iPad models - 1,2, 3, 4 - so I can directly compare them all.)
Well, actually, the original iOS app was a VERY bad one. Any semi-decent third-party player is orders of magnitude better. That is, we haven't lost much with its removal from the AppStore.
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Will soon be available.
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1, you'd see exactly the same decoding speed on the iPad 2 / Mini. The iPad 3 is NOT worse than those two models when it comes to CPU power.
2, you'll always want to use HW decoding with MKV files, unless it's impossible to do (e.g., with 10-bit H.264 streams). AVPlayerHD, along with nPlayer, has one of the best MKV remuxers.
I'll answer this - along with all the questions asked in this thread - as soon as it becomes available here in Finland.
Basically, VLC should have much broader format and streaming support. For example, AVPlayer doesn't support UPnP, HTTP and SMB streaming. Hope VLC does - on the desktop, it's pretty much capable at streaming.
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Well, if it does support AC3 and DTS, everybody should download and archive it immediately before Dolby / the DTS folks force it down (but to at least drop support for these formats), as has happened to all other media players...
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Nope, the two have nothing to do with each other.
Perfect since I have all my movies on a Mac Mini Server. I can stream them now 
And can download them directly from that for offline playback.
And can download them directly from that for offline playback.
It surely is. It'd be pretty hard-to-use without iTunes File Sharing. (BTW, the initial VLC also had support for it. I'm 100% sure this version will too.)