VLC for iPad: for those who need to "go" and not have cheap

Last night came the good news from Cupertino. Epplovskaya "thaw" in relation to development has led to what appeared in the App Store Player VLC. An important event: before Apple blocked applications that perform the same functions as the system software.

VLC - a well-known player. This cross-platform development with open source. VLC supports many codecs and formats, incl AVI, MKV, and others. As a result, owners aypada no longer need to convert your videos to H.264 / MPEG-4.

So far VLC for iPad offers only basic features: video playback. From buns it can be identified unless the support for subtitles in SRT format. And then you can make a long list of drawbacks:

- there is no way to switch sound track
- there is no way to select the subtitle language
- no tools for organizing a video library: ie folders, playlists, etc.
- no support for hardware acceleration (as a consequence: there may be problems with video playback, as well as more rapid discharge of the battery)
- instability of the application.

To add a video to the VLC, it is necessary to:

1. Connect the iPad to your computer
2. Start iTunes, where the left column click on the iPad puntku
3. In the window that opens, go to the Applications tab (Apps)
4. Otskrollit screen down to the File Sharing. There highlight the VLC, click the Add button and add the proper video and subtitles (subtitle files names must match the names of video files, but in this case the subs "catch").

In general, the cons and the VLC, and epplovskogo approach to transfer / sync missing data. However, at least you can watch your favorite TV shows without conversion. Considering recent telesezona it can not fail to please!

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