There are many paid players for specific video formats. You probably know that VLC is well-known for being stable and has been around forever. It aims to play almost any format of video or audio in the best quality with the least lag.
Because VLC Media Player can be run by command-line interface, Telnet, or a web navigator, its functionality goes above and beyond that of other media players. VLC for Android is the port of VideoLans famous media player.
The interface is plain, but you are able to customize it with the skins that are available. It allows you to customize the style, size, and placement of the subtitles on the screen.
It already has over 100 million downloads in the Play Store. They claim it to be the best open source video and music player that is fast and user-friendly. See the MPEG Wiki page for more details on the other MPEG standards. VLC For Android publicly started with a beta project and now, they have launched a full-fledged app that is supported wholly by the VideoLAN team. For portability to almost all decoders, we recommend using the MPEG-1 standard of vcodecmp1v, acodecmpga, and muxmpeg1. The application also supports several subtitle formats, like SRT, ASS, and other files extracted from disks. To know what codecs are readable with VLC media player, see VLC Features Formats. Additionally, VLC Media Player is capable or reading incomplete files if they are corrupted or partially downloaded. It also supports Blurays, DVDs, VCDs, and several different streaming formats. VLC Media Player can play any video or audio format, including MPEG, WMV, AVI, MOV, MP4, MKV, H.264/AVC, FLV, MP3 and OGG, along with many others. VLC can transcode into several formats depending on the operating system.Ĭontainer formats ASF, AVI, FLV, Fraps, MP4, Ogg, Wav, MPEG-2 (ES, PS, TS, PVA, MP3), MPJPEG, FLAC, QuickTime, Matroska Video formats H.263, H.VLC Media Player is an Open Source Multimedia Player licensed with GPL that allows you to view videos and listen to audios in practically any format. In addition, MKV files need a lot of processing power to play video files, and if your iPad is unable to offer that much power, then it would cause VLC can't play MKV.
For a full list of compatible file formats please see below. iPad or other iOS devices come with H.264 decoding support for hardware, which VLC doesn't use, so sometimes codec issues would cause VLC unable to play MKV format video files. VLC plays almost any video and audio format you can find, such as MPEG, AVI, RMBV, FLV, QuickTime, WMV, MP4, etc.
Audio formats AAC, AC3, ALAC, AMR, DTS, DV Audio, XM, FLAC, MACE, Mod, MP3, PLS, QCP, QDM2/QDMC, RealAudio, Speex, Screamtracker 3/S3M, TTA, Vorbis, WavPack, WMA (WMA 1/2, WMA 3 partially). Thanks to its versatile multi-format playback capabilities, it became popular among other competitor media players like QuickTime, Windows Media Player, etc. Subtitles DVD, SVCD, DVB, OGM, SubStation Alpha, SubRip, Advanced SubStation Alpha, MPEG-4 Timed Text, Text file, Vobsub, MPL2, Teletext. Video formats Cinepak, Dirac, DV, H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, HuffYUV, Indeo 3, MJPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2, RealVideo 3&4, Sorenson thus enabling direct playback of the modified Sorenson H.263 encoded videos downloaded from YouTube), Theora, VC-1, VP5, VP6, VP8, DNxHD, ProRes and some WMV. Container formats 3GP, ASF, AVI, FLV, Matroska, Musical Instrument Digital Interface (.mid/.midi), QuickTime, MP4, Ogg, OGM, WAV, MPEG-2 ( ES, PS, TS, PVA, MP3), AIFF, Raw audio, Raw DV, MXF, VOB, RM. 1.2 Output formats for streaming/encodingįormat Support Readable formats Input UDP/ RTP unicast or multicast, HTTP, FTP, MMS, RTSP, RTMP, DVDs, VCD, SVCD, CD Audio, DVB, Video acquisition (via V4l and DirectShow), RSS/ Atom feeds, and from files stored on the user's computer.