What is the best iOS video player for my iPad ?
I want to be able to play all my Youtube videos, movies, and tv shows.
I want to be able to play all my Youtube videos, movies, and tv shows.
Best video player
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Infuse
http://firecore.com/infuse
Infuse 4 comes out in a couple of weeks.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vlc-for-ios/id650377962?mt=8
http://firecore.com/infuse
Infuse 4 comes out in a couple of weeks.
Your link is broken. Proper link is here:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vlc-for-ios/id650377962?mt=8
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Infuse 4 for AppleTV is already out, and the iPad / iPhone version is supposed to be out before the end of December 2015.
http://firecore.com/comment/61182#comment-61182
I just knew VLC has an iOS version in the past. Now it seems that I have another choice. would give Infuse a try 
Thanks!
Thanks!
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The table you provided lists everything except iOS.
EDIT:
To be clear, vlc for iOS used to support ac3, but they removed ac3 support several versions ago, and furthermore, the older ac3-compatible version is no longer available via the iTunes store. So if you're downloading and installing vlc today, you'll get the lastest version with no ac3 support.
They had to remove ac3 from the iOS version for licencing reasons. OTOH, vlc for OS X includes ac3 support... but it's not on the Mac app store either.
VLC for iOS v 2.4.1 app ruined
BTW, I actually have the old version of vlc for iOS with ac3 support, but I don't bother using it because Infuse 3.6 is a better player. I'm careful not to update my vlc for iOS though, just in case.
EDIT:
To be clear, vlc for iOS used to support ac3, but they removed ac3 support several versions ago, and furthermore, the older ac3-compatible version is no longer available via the iTunes store. So if you're downloading and installing vlc today, you'll get the lastest version with no ac3 support.
They had to remove ac3 from the iOS version for licencing reasons. OTOH, vlc for OS X includes ac3 support... but it's not on the Mac app store either.
VLC for iOS v 2.4.1 app ruined
irate poster said:
developer of vlc for iOS said:
BTW, I actually have the old version of vlc for iOS with ac3 support, but I don't bother using it because Infuse 3.6 is a better player. I'm careful not to update my vlc for iOS though, just in case.
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fine, so it doesn't. now, i would like you (and the OP) to do a per-format file search on your PCs and tell me how many said files you have.
had to google it, ac3 is a dolby format. generally used in the industry to support professional film. pardon my ignorance but i don't see how this feature would be missed.
now i don't know Infuse but i support VLC out of habit since they revolutionized the world back-when WMP and their pals all tried to infect the world with DRM and paid codecs, and i still owe them a debt of gratitude.
had to google it, ac3 is a dolby format. generally used in the industry to support professional film. pardon my ignorance but i don't see how this feature would be missed.
now i don't know Infuse but i support VLC out of habit since they revolutionized the world back-when WMP and their pals all tried to infect the world with DRM and paid codecs, and i still owe them a debt of gratitude.
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Uh, ac3 is one of the most common audio formats out there in mkv internetland. It is not just a Dolby format, it is THE Dolby format. How common is it? Just about every surround receiver for the last 15 years supports ac3. Every DVD player ever produced supports ac3, because it's a mandatory supported format for DVD players. Same goes for Blu-ray. Audio output from video game consoles is in ac3. And so on.
IOW, for many people, vlc on iOS is near useless these days.
Honestly, it sounds like you don't actually have much experience with vlc on iOS, or audio formats in general.
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AFAIK there is no proper hardware acceleration for vlc in iOS. Or there wasn't in 2.5.x IIRC. So video playback choked on slower hardware and used up a lot of battery on all iOS hardware.
Plus it was not particularly stable. 2.6.x is probably more stable but I see nothing in the change log mentioning addition of full hardware acceleration on iOS.
https://allmychanges.com/p/ios/VLC%20for%20iOS/
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Infuse is great. From what I understand its basically a VLC branch with a much better UI. If you want to watch just about any torrented file the ac3 support is really important.
nPlayer is the other big one I hear about, but Infuse is the one I own.
Also there is MC Player. Its a branch of Kodi (XBMC) that got neutered for apple store. You can sideload the real Kodi on apple TV at least.
nPlayer is the other big one I hear about, but Infuse is the one I own.
Also there is MC Player. Its a branch of Kodi (XBMC) that got neutered for apple store. You can sideload the real Kodi on apple TV at least.
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