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'WALTR' for Mac Lets Users Upload Any Media File to an iOS Device for Native Playback
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Cheesy video, but I'll give the free trial a shot. May not need HandBrake queues anymore.
I haven't converted anything in years. Spending all those hours converting is such a massive waste of time. Even setting it all up is a waste. I felt liberated after changing systems.
There are quite a few apps on the app store that will do exactly as you say. There is a bloke on MacRumors who does incredible write ups of all the players available in the app store. Check them out. But in no particular order, here are a few.
1. VLC (free, is it still on the app store? i was taken down, then put back up, then???)
2. Cinexplayer
3. Nplayer
4. AV Player HD (or whatever it's called now)
5. other similar apps.
2 to 4 cost money, but the outlay is only 5 bucks. That is absolutely worth the cost of admission. Plus their controls are so much better than the standard Apple video player.
Indeed!
A question: I have hundreds of DVDs, some of which I'd love to rip, is there a ripping program that will bypass the protection on DVDs and rip to a standard video format? I used to have a program which did that, but it lost that ability. I'm not looking for MKV, just a standard avi or mov is totally fine.
This seems interesting because no iTunes. The other programs I mentioned above still work through iTunes even though it's still the same process it seems. What I'm wondering is how it will affect battery consumption. The built in video app seems quite good on battery consumption compared to Nplayer in particular and a little better than Cinexplayer and VLC.
The music part of the program also seems pretty good. I'm not aware of other programs that allow you to add flac files. Please post them here if you know. I've got some flac files and really don't want to transcode them.
Thanks. I will buy this program just to support such an interesting app.
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I haven't ripped a DVD for a long time, but doesn't Handbrake rip direct to mp4?
Oh, Yeah! I'm pretty sure it does. I forgot! Does it bypass the protection? I think if you have VLC installed it might. Not sure... I will have to check. thanks.
You need to install the libdvdcss add on to rip protected DVDs, it doesn't come with it as default.
This is just awesome! I've just tested several videos and all work super great! Even ones with subtitles! I don't know what kind of magic this is but bravo for this app!
It does, but everything I rip has 'artifacts' in it. Everything that moves takes on a horizontal striped effect. I've gotten used to it, but it is annoying.
I've played with different settings, but the artifact is still there.
Another thing, and I'm sure everyone here knows it already, but 'just in case', the
authorization code' from most movies that support iTunes can be entered directly into iTunes to get the movie. A friend of mine thought they had to do the 'Ultraviolet Dance' for every video they bought, but nope... SO far, works fine. Now if the bastards will stop deciding which flicks they allow iTunes for and which they don't, and keep them all on iTunes, I'd be happy. One of the Harry Potter flicks won't work with iTunes, Pirates of the Caribbean, Monsters, Inc., etc...
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I have tried the other mentioned and then I tried this.
Very quick and simply.
I bought it as I am quite happy to support it.
To me the bonus is that I can just use the Videos app to play movies, whether purchased from iTunes or loaded from my Mac.
Having said that, at home I use VLCStreamer and just stream from my mac mini. This to is really very cool and seamless (and gives me access to 3TB of material.)
Very quick and simply.
I bought it as I am quite happy to support it.
To me the bonus is that I can just use the Videos app to play movies, whether purchased from iTunes or loaded from my Mac.
Having said that, at home I use VLCStreamer and just stream from my mac mini. This to is really very cool and seamless (and gives me access to 3TB of material.)
Does it work with full HD MKV files? I remember that iOS wasn't allowed hardware decoding on everything not using the official Video API (meaning everything except .mp4 lags).
Or is it simply a converter that also sends the file afterwards? So I'll wait for 30 minutes if I drag in a video? Or does it mux them into a container?
So many questions!
Or is it simply a converter that also sends the file afterwards? So I'll wait for 30 minutes if I drag in a video? Or does it mux them into a container?
So many questions!
Well I just tried this one...
Worked great except for the subtitles as they were in VOBsub format.
Interestingly when looking at my device using either iTunes or iMazing the files are stored as MUSIC files, yet the video app sees them as if they were video files. I also notice they are using ffmpeg in their code.
Worked great except for the subtitles as they were in VOBsub format.
Interestingly when looking at my device using either iTunes or iMazing the files are stored as MUSIC files, yet the video app sees them as if they were video files. I also notice they are using ffmpeg in their code.
I bought nPlayer a while ago, plays all these formats, you can slide your finger across the screen to scan, lock the screen, play from all the cloud sources you want, save to it wirelessly via its own web interface, use webdav to connect to it, background play VIDEO (handy for stand up comedies and music videos in the car) use any NAS box, SMB share, FTP, uPNP share (works much better than VLC IMO), has a mini browser built in if you want to download media off a website, will communicate via webdav with other ios devices on the same network running nPlayer, you don't need iTunes at all and it takes the mystery out of wifi. You can even access your NON-DRM iTunes and pics and videos from it. You can adjust aspect ratios, zoom, adjust sync, boost audio, have SEPERATE or built in subtitles and adjust the size of the subtitles with gestures (obviously doesn't work if they're hardcoded). It almost feels like an app you'd only get in a jailbreak situation, but it's on the App Store. My only beefs are that they pulled DTS support because of licensing, and background playing a WebDAV source is useless if you home-button out of the app. But what am I complaining about for $5
MKV's are not a great test, many can be 'remuxed' into a M4V without re-encoding- basically the wrapper just needs to be changed. Others might only need audio to be re-encoded which is pretty quick.
Someone should try this with an AVI file, which normally must be re-encoded for playback in the iOS video player.
The advantage of being able to use the iOS video player is that it uses hardware decoding and is better on battery life. Normally if you play a non-compliant file with a 3rd party app, it is using software decoding which will use battery a lot faster.
So I'm not sure what's going on with this app, I will download the trial.
EDIT- From their web site, they are saying the program does transcode AVI files, but it's "almost instantaneous thanks to our new technology."
http://softorino.com/waltr/convert-avi-mp4-mac
Hmmmm...
just tried side by side test of the same flac file, one added w/waltr & played through the native music app and the other added through iTunes & played with a readily available, free flac player app. however they are re-encoding/repackaging the flac file caused a noticeable drop in sound quality, so there's really no point flac-wise to using it as that entirely defeats the purpose.
i do like the drag & drop for .mkv's, but there are plenty of other/cheaper options. id stick to handbrake or shell out ~$5 for one of the other players on the market.
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A good idea? Not
I installed the free trial of this app onto my iPhone 6. It does everything as it should. The only thing was that none of the .avi sample files i loaded onto my iPhone would run. They all came up with an 'unexpected error' message.
Same thing happens with .flv files. The error message is 'The operation could not be completed. An unknown error occurred (-12893)'
I installed the free trial of this app onto my iPhone 6. It does everything as it should. The only thing was that none of the .avi sample files i loaded onto my iPhone would run. They all came up with an 'unexpected error' message.
Same thing happens with .flv files. The error message is 'The operation could not be completed. An unknown error occurred (-12893)'
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