iPad is very convenient for working with multimedia, but it is believed that it will not work to watch any video. This is not entirely true. Indeed, the "native" video format for him is MP4. What video formats does the iPad support yet? These are M4V, MOV and AVI.
But with a suitable video player, you can open XVID, MKV, WMV, ASF and RMVB files. Unfortunately, FLV cannot yet be viewed on the iPad. When trying to open a similar file, some of the players seriously freeze. It is also worth paying attention to the fact that many copyright holders force developers to exclude support for one or another codec in the players. So, some of the latest editions of popular players have already lost support for AC3 and DTS, so you should first get to know what video formats the iPad player supports and, if anything, look for old versions.
Now there are at least a dozen very good and as many satisfactory players, mainly from third-party manufacturers. There are free ones, and a paid player can be bought at the same Apple Store for the price of 2-5 dollars. Here are three of the most popular:
- AVPlayerHD - despite the fact that it is inferior in functionality to many of its brothers, the player is popular precisely because of its simplicity. The pluses include stable operation, which some more “advanced” applications cannot boast of. It costs $ 3.
- OPlayerHD Lite - plays almost all formats, though not always as high quality as paid players. Suitable for watching video in a stream, connects to FTP, has a built-in browser.
- Buzz Player - different quality playback of almost all formats (slightly slows down HD), supports downloading files from the network. It costs $ 5.
The built-in browser in the last two of the mentioned applications is necessary for everyone who is going to watch video from the Internet. The ability to view files of one quality or another also depends to some extent on your provider. In the specifications of the device on what video formats
iPad 2 supports, it says that the maximum frequency is 30 frames per second.
Limitations on the encoding frequency depend both on the capabilities of the device and on the download speed from the network. Information about specific restrictions from the provider is usually provided, but we will note that the better the video quality, the greater the likelihood of problems (with a good connection speed, problems will arise only with HD). A good player not only simplifies the answer to the question about which video formats iPad supports, but also partially solves problems with downloading. However, the owners of the best licensed products cannot yet avoid the abnormal termination of the program.
With the help of players, you can no longer care about which video formats iPad supports, convert movies and clips, search for content in a suitable format.
If you are sure that the iPad should play the available video formats, but the file still does not open, most likely it has digital rights. Apple, as we recall, complies
with copyright laws and has implemented controls in the iTunes app. If you personally purchased the content, you must synchronize the iPad with the specified application, otherwise it is better to find the desired movie without DRM protection in another place.