Network Video on iphone/ipad

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jonherries

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#70991 3-Nov-2010 09:51

I want to watch movies that are on an airport disk on my iphone.

I want to access this over my home network.

I know that airvideo needs a mac running (don't want this to be the case).
It isn't a upnp drive, or a NAS mltimedia server (plain old attached external usb).

I noticed that on the ios 4.2 gm, the apple remote for ipad shows videos, not sure whether this plays the video on the ipad with the new airplay thing?

Any suggestions, be great if VLC (eg. open a network path to a file) does this in the future?

Thanks Jon

jmumby

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#399854 3-Nov-2010 21:48

I bought Buzz $1.29. I don't have an airport but a WD World drive that has DLNA built in. Doesn't seem to matter if it has DLNA or not as Buzz seems to connect via a share (smb) or DLNA. I used to use airvideo but you needed to a PC running with the airserver, it would use FFMPEG to encode on the fly which was a pain. Buzz just connects and encode, alot faster at seeking as well, also no PC to leave on. Streaming DivX

jonherries

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#400478 5-Nov-2010 08:59

So downloaded buzz player, and was reasonably happy.

Not so happy with non-standard UI conventions, and some cryptic icon design, plus some poorly thought out UI design in general.

The applidium guys need to ramp up a better version of VLC with me being able to open network sources like in Buzz Player.

I am amazed though that in a app store of >300k, this is the only one I am willing to use (available to buy at a reasonable price) to do this?

Damn those fart apps.

Jon