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Old 08-10-2011, 16:01
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I wonder can anyone tell me what the prob is. I can import still photos to my ipad and view them, but when I try to import movies from my digital camera or my Vado, the movies seem to import and you get an icon on the ipad screen for each one but they then wont open.
Where am I going wrong?
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Old 08-10-2011, 16:15
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the ipad plays a very limited range of video files. it's an apple thing.

you could download another player that supports the type of file and compression that your videos are in. unfortunately the best one VLC is not in the app store (it's an apple thing) so you best bet might be to convert them.

http://handbrake.fr/ has an ipad pre set
as does free make http://www.freemake.com/free_video_converter/
the latter is very easy to use if a little basic.
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Old 08-10-2011, 16:23
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the ipad plays a very limited range of video files. it's an apple thing.

you could download another player that supports the type of file and compression that your videos are in. unfortunately the best one VLC is not in the app store (it's an apple thing) so you best bet might be to convert them.

http://handbrake.fr/ has an ipad pre set
as does free make http://www.freemake.com/free_video_converter/
the latter is very easy to use if a little basic.
AVplayerHD is a brilliant app, only about £2 and has so far played everything I have chucked at it.
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Old 08-10-2011, 16:29
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AVplayerHD is a brilliant app, only about £2 and has so far played everything I have chucked at it.
Another vote for AVPlayerHD. Plays everything I've tried.
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Old 08-10-2011, 19:05
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AVPlayerHD is the answer. Are you getting the message yet?
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Old 08-10-2011, 20:04
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maybe I' ll try AV Player HD...thanks peeps
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Old 09-10-2011, 20:53
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Doh, whys it saying that AV Player HD is incompatible with my iPad...and a similar app that I tried?
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Old 10-10-2011, 19:43
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anyone?
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Old 10-10-2011, 19:54
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No idea. It's an iPad only app...

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/avpla...407976815?mt=8

According to iTunes, you need iOS4.2 or above. Are you running an older version?
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Old 10-10-2011, 20:47
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I just tried (scratch that, bought) AV PlayerHD to play some AVI's. Play back was audio only no video, so that didn't go too well.

Re-encoding them to Apple HD (5Mbps) at the moment.
then they'll play okay with the in built App.
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Old 11-10-2011, 07:05
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Well now I have the difficult AVI's as m4v's I like what AV PlayerHD can do so I have started using that but it still barfs on some AVI, those I'll have to convert, but TurboH264, is pretty fast for that anyway.
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Old 11-10-2011, 09:09
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the ipad plays a very limited range of video files. it's an apple thing.

you could download another player that supports the type of file and compression that your videos are in. unfortunately the best one VLC is not in the app store (it's an apple thing) so you best bet might be to convert them.

http://handbrake.fr/ has an ipad pre set
as does free make http://www.freemake.com/free_video_converter/
the latter is very easy to use if a little basic.
VLC was removed from the app store because it was done by a third party and the organisation asked Apple to remove it.

Anyway AVplayerHD is better than VLC was. I also use AirPlay to play files from my NAS.
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Old 11-10-2011, 09:12
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I went down the cineXPlayer route and it works fine. Even has a free version to try files out on so no need to just buy it outright (well, it did have a few months back when I got it...)
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Old 11-10-2011, 13:41
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What app would people recommend to actually edit your movies? iMovie doesn't look too great...
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