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I'm a big fan of VLC, it's been my default video app since I can remember. Can't wait to see it again on iOS. The "big" feature I would like to see is some kin
by antr 13y ago
I'm a big fan of VLC, it's been my default video app since I can remember. Can't wait to see it again on iOS.
The "big" feature I would like to see is some kind of "super-easy" drag and drop feature where I could easily send video files to my iPad/iPhone without doing the whole Browser->IP:Port->Choose file, etc. A "video file right click -> VLC -> Send file to iPad (upload in background)" would put a smile on my face.
- roskilli 13y agoThe Dropbox integration may very well make it that easy, simply drop into your Dropbox folder and hey presto. Although waiting for it to sync to AWS might be painful, I wonder if the iOS and Android clients do local syncing like the desktop clients do when on the same network?
- steevdave 13y agoAndroid, at least here, does not sync the files to the device at all until you attempt to look at them
- icebraining 13y agoLAN syncing doesn't avoid having to upload it first to AWS, though; it just speeds up the subsequent download to the other devices.
- jbk 13y agoI wish we could do that, but it is really annoying to do, since it almost needs a special desktop app to do so. And the iDevice must be in the listening mode... Drag'n drop in the browser is the best we have so far. Maybe a later version with Bonjour will come... Patches welcome :)
- alco 13y agoBonjour is easy to implement. But why a special desktop app? Isn't there VLC for desktop already? I haven't used the original VLC for iOS. Do you run an HTTP server on the device for file uploading? You could go one step further and add WebDAV on top of HTTP. That would allow mounting the app as an external disk. It can also be integrated with desktop VLC for automatic discovery and file sharing. Can't wait to start contributing!
- jbk 13y ago> Bonjour is easy to implement. Indeed, but the first thing I did was crashing, and was not the biggest priority. I hope that we can bring it later on. > But why a special desktop app? Isn't there VLC for desktop already? We could do that, although I'm not a fan of such coupling, but maybe it's easier than I expected. > I haven't used the original VLC for iOS. Do you run an HTTP server on the device for file uploading? We do for this version :) > Can't wait to start contributing! Seriously? Can't wait for patches :)
- mehrzad 13y ago>it's been my default video app since I can remember. Curious as to what you think about MPlayer, MPC-HC, or mpv, which have mostly taken the crown in nerd circles as being the de facto video players.
- JohnTHaller 13y agoMPlayer works in the Linux world, but the app itself has no stable releases outside of that so it doesn't have traction beyond Linux. Unless you count things like SMPlayer (Windows-specific front-end and MPlayer backend) and the like. MPC-HC is pretty popular in the Windows world. But neither of them come close to approaching VLC's userbase. We make SMPlayer, MPC-HC and VLC all available in portable form at PortableApps.com alongside each other and VLC's downloads blow the other two away.
- Osmium 13y agoThere are some MPlayer-powered releases for OS X too, e.g. http://mplayerx.org http://mplayerx.org There are others too, though I'm not sure what the differences are.
- JohnTHaller 13y agoThere are a bunch of them on Windows, too. It's hard to keep track of them all.
- simcop2387 13y agosmplayer isn't windows only. It does work on linux fairly well too. That being said, I have grown to like VLC more lately.
- JohnTHaller 13y agoQuite right, my mistake. The point still stands, though, as Windows (the dominant OS by a huge margin) has no stable releases of the base MPlayer app, so there's no one version people can grab. Whereas VLC runs quite well on Windows, Mac and Linux.
- daed 13y agoAssuming it's like the last version on iOS (which I was lucky enough to download before it got yanked) you can just plug in your device and throw whatever videos you want into VLC's documents folder. Transfers really quickly over USB.
- Florin_Andrei 13y agoI kept the old version on my iPhone ever since it got pulled from the store. Made sure to not delete it. :) > native Dropbox integration > background audio playback This is awesome.
- daxelrod 13y agoThe old VLC for iOS used iTunes's transfer capabilities rather than presenting an HTTP server. Here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/cRwg8Rr.jpg http://i.imgur.com/cRwg8Rr.jpg Not quite as slick as the context menu you're suggesting though.
- jbk 13y agoThe new one has the HTTP server... I've added it...
- ferdo 13y agoThis isn't a VLC solution per se but it did solve my issue of getting files onto an iPad as I don't use spyTunes: http://www.digidna.net/diskaid http://www.digidna.net/diskaid
- jamesaguilar 13y agoPlex is almost this, if you're looking for something that has this feature now.
- ronnier 13y agoPlex is great. I'm on vacation with access to my full movie collection. Streams perfectly.
- jamesaguilar 13y agoYep. I paid for the membership, so Plex will also re-encode my stuff and sync it to the iPhone (or any other device). This prevents having to mess around with Handbrake for hours trying to get the iPhone to eat the video.
- 1qaz2wsx3edc 13y agoI love VLC. A mobile version sounds awesome, if streaming from a host is easy. That's really all I want to do. And to that effect I use Airplayit for streaming+copying from pc/mac to ios. It's fairly simple and reliable.
- darkstalker 13y agoIf you jailbreak you can use SFTP