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VLC Media Player for the iPad
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hong Kong
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Anyone used this yet with .avi movies?
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Join Date: Sep 2010
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Yes I'm using it now. Works well with .avi files that are under 900mb. Larger files seem you go out of sync with the audio track. Not bad for a 1.0 release..
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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I've tried it with up to 1.5GB .avi files and seems to work fine for me. You may have issues depending on how your files were converted to avi but for me, so far so good.
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Aisle 7, with chips and dips
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It worked fine for my .avi DviX/Xvid videos but not for the Adobe Flash and WMV files that play on the desktop version of VLC. I hope they add more codec support in the near future. Meanwhile, I'm happy for what we have.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Italy
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Worked perfectly for me so far with any DviX/Xvid file
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Oct 2003
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I found another glitch. The DviX/Xvid files that played fine in VLC on the iPad didn't play when on the TV when I connected it with the Apple cable. The iTunes videos played fine on the TV though.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Toronto, Canada
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Originally Posted by Salsa
I found another glitch. The DviX/Xvid files that played fine in VLC on the iPad didn't play when on the TV when I connected it with the Apple cable. The iTunes videos played fine on the TV though.
That's not a glitch. Apps need to be optimized for playback on external monitors, that doesn't just automatically happen.
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Administrator
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Land of the Easily Amused
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Phileas is right. Apps just don't default to exporting what you see to a TV. Most won't work at all.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: England
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Caught in a web of deceit.
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Does 1.1 correct the audio sync issues?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hong Kong
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Originally Posted by Eug
Does 1.1 correct the audio sync issues?
Seems to be fine on the iPhone version so far.
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Jun 2005
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VLC plays things fine transfered from my iMac to iPhone: Dvix, .flv, Xvid & even .asx "programme of internet".
The problem seems tobe that trying to play stuff straight from web is very choppy or unplayable!
This for a 1st release is bad & worse for the end user is that file are put into inbox from movies played from web which you cannot delete within iTunes or iPhone (doesn't showup in edit-list of iPhone.
You have to delete the app to get rid of it? another big fail in my book since you watch a file of maybe 7.5mbs if more then 1 this can ad-up to 2 to 3 Gb's in a session.
Although on the positive side the files transfered did not eat any space on my iPhone & I still had 10.1 Gbs free.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
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Speaking of VLC, how many copies do you think they sold based on the scare it might get yanked from the App Store?
I admit, I totally fell for it.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: planning a comeback !
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Sold ? It's a free app, so they didn't exactly "sell" anything.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
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Scary as this sounds, I didn't even notice.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: planning a comeback !
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*off to create "free" app for subego*
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
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Moderator
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Polwaristan
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The only thing that bugs me is the lack of picture resizing. iOS natively-supported video gives you the option to crop the video so it fills the screen. VLC (at least on iPhone) doesn't do this, but it'd be cool if it did.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: UK
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I haven't had any problems with VLC - worked a charm both on my iPhone 4 and iPad
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