Video player for an Ipad?

Acid0

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Hi

I am looking to setup one of the ipads for the little one to keep him busy with some movies and sing along videos for the car.

So what I am looking is for a free.paid app that can do the following.

1. It needs to play the next file automatically
2. Create a playlist to play a sequence of files (optional really just a nice to have)
3. Create folders where we can place different shows and songs in their own respectful folders.


That is it, not a long wish list but I would rather ask here before downloading seven hundred different apps.
 

jansdejager

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Be sure to get one that plays HEVC x265 which is the new standard, just incase you need it later on. In fact if you search HEVC there are a few that pop up but most of the players I've tried were rubbish (even the paid MediaXtreme), except for FlexPlayer but FP doesn't have special features that OP asks for.
 

DrJohnZoidberg

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Be sure to get one that plays HEVC x265 which is the new standard, just incase you need it later on. In fact if you search HEVC there are a few that pop up but most of the players I've tried were rubbish (even the paid MediaXtreme), except for FlexPlayer but FP doesn't have special features that OP asks for.

HEVC requires immense computational power or dedicated decoder hardware built in to the device. As far as I'm aware iPads don't have hardware HEVC decoding (the new iPhone 6's are apparently the only ones, and it's currently only supported for Facetime video). Any app that says it supports it on the iPad is probably trying to swindle you.
 

jansdejager

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HEVC requires immense computational power or dedicated decoder hardware built in to the device. As far as I'm aware iPads don't have hardware HEVC decoding (the new iPhone 6's are apparently the only ones, and it's currently only supported for Facetime video). Any app that says it supports it on the iPad is probably trying to swindle you.



The app looked pretty legit and were free to try, but I didn't have any h265 to test then. Most things are h264 so the built-in player will happily play the remuxed streams. Which I prefer since there isn't an app I've tried to works better in terms of quality and fluidity. The only irritating things are these 10-bit h264 encodes what a ballache.
 

Space_Chief

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AVPlayer HD is the best player. Plays everything from .RMVBs to .MKVs with excellent subtitle performance. Also capable of hardware decoding of most things.
 
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