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VLC Media Player for the iPad
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Andy8
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Sep 20, 2010, 07:53 PM
 
Anyone used this yet with .avi movies?
     
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Sep 21, 2010, 05:55 PM
 
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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Sep 21, 2010, 08:36 PM
 
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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Sep 21, 2010, 10:41 PM
 
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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Sep 22, 2010, 02:23 AM
 
Worked perfectly for me so far with any DviX/Xvid file
     
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Oct 14, 2010, 10:31 PM
 
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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Oct 14, 2010, 11:41 PM
 
Originally Posted by Salsa View Post
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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Oct 15, 2010, 12:10 PM
 
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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Nov 4, 2010, 08:40 PM
 
I heard that VLC is going to be removed from the App store soon. Grab it soon!
VLC Player Might be Pulled from Apple App Store
     
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Nov 4, 2010, 09:06 PM
 
Does 1.1 correct the audio sync issues?
     
Andy8  (op)
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Nov 4, 2010, 09:42 PM
 
Originally Posted by Eug View Post
Does 1.1 correct the audio sync issues?
Seems to be fine on the iPhone version so far.
     
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Nov 5, 2010, 05:03 AM
 
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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Nov 5, 2010, 09:30 AM
 
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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Nov 5, 2010, 10:38 AM
 
Sold ? It's a free app, so they didn't exactly "sell" anything.

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Nov 5, 2010, 10:55 PM
 
Scary as this sounds, I didn't even notice.
     
turtle777
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Nov 5, 2010, 11:18 PM
 
*off to create "free" app for subego*

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Nov 6, 2010, 12:52 PM
 
I'll take three!
     
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Nov 6, 2010, 12:55 PM
 
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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Nov 18, 2010, 08:30 AM
 
I haven't had any problems with VLC - worked a charm both on my iPhone 4 and iPad
     
   
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