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“In our own brief tests, VLC performed very well and played all the AVI and DIVX files we threw at it,” Lardinois reports.
It seems like Apple is currently opening up its store to a number of services that were currently off-limits for developers,” Lardinois writes. “Just in the last few days, we saw the return of numerous Google Voice apps that were previously banned from inclusion in the app store, as well as the return of a popular C64 emulator with support for the BASIC programming language. Overall, this can only be a good thing for the iOS ecosystem.”
Full article here.
Get the free iPad app via Apple’s iTunes App Store here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Thelonious Mac” for the heads up.]
Just got it. Can’t wait to try it out.
It doesn’t appear to support “Open in.” You have to movie videos through iTunes. Getting sick of that.
…but can it stream over AirPlay?
Don’t have an iPad, can’t wait for it to appear on iPhone so I don’t have to convert my movie collection anymore
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Wonder what it does to battery life though, since the other video formats are presumably not handled as efficiently or at all by the dedicated h.264 processor.
Can iOS run Android?
Never thought I’d see Apple let VLC in the App Store.
It’s getting more and more difficult to avoid buying an iPad. I resolved myself to wait for the 2ndGen, prepared to order it the day it’s unveiled, but I’m growing impatient.
@R2
I’m with you. I’ve gone into the Apple Store twice in as many weeks this month alone and picked an iPad up and played with it. Each time I read about an app that I’d use, I have to tell myself to be patient.
This is the first release of the app, but a good first step. Unlike the cross-platform desktop versions of VLC which play ***anything***, the iOS version is pretty limited. I heard that H.264 MKV files don’t play due to hardware performance, but I also couldn’t get WMV files to play.
It did play other formats (like XviD AVI) just fine for me. Unfortunately, the quality in terms of smoothing out compression artifacts was somewhat lacking…not a problem if you have high quality to begin with.
@R2: It seemed likely they would allow VLC since they allowed other apps that were similar.
The most surprising app to see on iOS so far has to be Napster which just came out today.
Apparently, Apple did in fact just take a prudent conservative initial stance on app approval and now has figured out how to support more of the apps on the edge.
Hopefully, VLC will get Open In support as well as some file management features soon. For an amazing example of what an app can do in regards to this, see Good Reader (I friggin’ love that app on my iPhone and iPad).
I’m looking forward to seeing how VLC progresses.
What, is it not available on the Canadian iTunes store?
Apple was conservative with Apps at first – a good thing in these early days of the iPad.
If VLC plays AVI files, thats enough for me right now.
Good Reader is great, Pages is great, (with the caveat of the somewhat labyrinthine file system) – but all the Apps will improve or die.
LOVE my 3G 32 gb iPad!
I am very happy using CineXplayer on my iPad. It plays avi’s natively and allows for transfer via the ‘Open In’.
“Air Video” app is great for streaming video files from your home computer over 3G GSM into / onto your iPad or iPhone. anywhere in the world if you have access to 3G or WiFi
http://www.inmethod.com/air-video/index.html
er … the tie in –
Like VLC “Air Video” will handle DivX and Avi and many others … on the fly.
More important than this particular app is the change in Apple’s tactics. Until now they tried to play nice with studios by keeping pirated video content out of iOS devices and Apple TV. But now they say fine, if you don’t want to sell your content it’s your problem.
Well, this is a change.
But if this is built on VLC where os the source code? Does Apple allow developers to release the code now? I think I remember they banned such things?
I want it to be able to play the media over Wifi stored on network share or NAS etc.. and be able to stream it over Airplay to an Apple TV. That would be killer.
I hope Airplay is an open API which any app developer can make use of…
a bit of a hypee in here. App is weak on the iPad. Using oPlayerHD+CineXplayer instead.