Best App to Play MKV Files in iPad Pro?

[masotime]

Here's a follow up screenshot playing the H265 clip Tears of Steel. The file is too large to attach so I've uploaded it here: http://postimg.org/image/y4qtfuzwl/full/

As can be seen, it supports DTS audio. I think this should lay to rest any doubts about the ability of nPlayer to fully utilize the iPad Pro's resolution.

If you want to try the video clip itself, click here: http://www.libde265.org/downloads-videos/

NOTE: Although you can download and play the clip yourself, nPlayer falters trying to play HEVC - this is a limitation of the difficulty of decoding HEVC, which, even for the iPad Pro is an extremely processor-intensive task. Unfortunately native (hardware) HEVC playback doesn't seem to be exposed in the iPad Pro's API (or perhaps nPlayer doesn't utilize it, I'm unclear about this).

This shouldn't be an issuing playing h.264 videos, although they'll be much larger of course.

 

[WilliamG]

No.

nPlayer doesn't support it either.

Incorrect. It does.

 

[seasurfer]

Can nPlayer play files with .srt...those subtitle files?

 

[max2]

Infuse 3 Pro has cover art nPlayer doesn't.

 

[seasurfer]

Yes it does. My best guess is that the app was designed to scale properly even before the iPad Pro was launched.

Nothing against Infuse Pro, just that I've already invested quite a bit in nPlayer, and I'm quite satisfied with the broad feature set that nPlayer already provides.

I'm actually not sure why @max2 keeps insisting that nPlayer doesn't support the native resolution of the iPad Pro...

By the way, can you transfer files wirelessly from iMac to the iPad Pro with nPlayer?

 

[Osty]

I don't bother trying to play MKV on my iPad, I convert the container to mp4 using ffmpeg on my Linux rig. Only takes a minute or two and that's with a circa 2009 Core2Quad processor. it's a one-line command to do a single video or a couple of lines of bash to do it batch mode.

 

[seasurfer]

I don't bother trying to play MKV on my iPad, I convert the container to mp4 using ffmpeg on my Linux rig. Only takes a minute or two and that's with a circa 2009 Core2Quad processor. it's a one-line command to do a single video or a couple of lines of bash to do it batch mode.

How do you do it on a Mac?

 

[Absrnd]

How do you do it on a Mac?

Subler !
http://streaming-blog.com/subler-remux-mkv-videos-apple-tv/

 

[Chrisbbarnes]

Just wondering if there is any yet?

PLEX

 

[Osty]

How do you do it on a Mac?

Install ffmpeg on your mac with homebrew: http://brew.sh/

Then run the following command in the Terminal

$ brew install ffmpeg​

When that's installed:

$ ffmpeg -i /path/to/file.mkv -vcodec copy -acodec copy file.mp4​

 

[coops]

nplayer supports subtitles perfectly - whether packaged within the (mkv) container or an external srt file.
plays dts.
can download file from network for later local playback etc etc, from NAS drives or seagte wirelesss drives and the like... nplayer is my default player for my ipad (air).

 

[pacorob]

I was a nPlayer user untill they updated their app and you had to pay again for some existing and new features.
I have been using Infuse 3 Pro for quite a while and i love it. It has automatic metadata download and also can download opensubtitles.org. This can't be done with nPlayer.

A great free alternative is VidOn Player but lacks quite some features although i think it's still much better then VLC.

 

[masotime]

I was a nPlayer user untill they updated their app and you had to pay again for some existing and new features.

Interesting... what existing features did you have to pay for? I bought nPlayer when it was ~$3-4, then some more for DTS support when it finally came out as an IAP... but that's all I recall. Possibly AC3, but I don't remember paying for existing features.