What’s the best video player for iPad Pro?


What’s the best video player for iPad Pro? With bigger and better screens and lots of available HD content, it’s become easier than ever to turn your iPad Pro into a portable theater. There are a ton of codecs out there and not every video player can play every one of them. You wouldn’t be the first experience a dreaded “codec not supported” error. Thus, it may become required to pick up another one in order to play all of your videos. Thankfully, there are a couple of really good ones out there and let’s check out top 5 video player apps for iPad Pro!

1. VLC player (Free)
vlc for ipad pro

VLC is a start since it’s free. Although some people don’t like VLC, you can’t deny that VLC is a really powerful video player for iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch. It can play all your movies and shows in most formats directly without conversion.

It allows file synchronization with Dropbox, GDrive, iTunes, direct download and through an embedded upload web server as well as streaming from UPnP media servers. VLC on iOS is completely free and open source.

2. OPlayer HD Lite (Free)
oplayer hd for ipad pro
Official DTS audio support, though it is not free for patent cost.

Play all your videos directly without having to convert them! OPlayer supports almost every format for video/audio playback. It gives you the flexibility to be able to download your files to your device, or browse a SAMBA/FTP/UPnP/DLNA share over the network.

“Best video player on the App Store”
OPlayer HD has been rated as “iPad Apps Plus Best”!

【Supported Formats】
– Video: mkv, wmv, avi, divx, xvid, rmvb, rm, flv, mp4, 4k, mov, 3gp, m4v, blu-ray, ts, m2ts, swf, asf, vob, h265 (hevc), webm…almost all movie file formats.

– Audio: mp3, wma, wav, dts, ac3, eac3, aac, flac, ape, cue, amr, ogg vorbis, lossless music…almost all audio file formats.

– Subtitle: srt, ass, smi, sub…almost all subtitle file formats.

– Stream: http, ftp, samba, rtp, rtsp, mms…

– Widely devices support: Optimized for all iPad running iOS 6.0 and later, including iPad Pro 12.9 and 9.7.

3. Infuse 4 (Free)
infuse 4 for ipad pro

If you’re looking for a versatile, all-in-one media player that’ll play just about any file format that you can throw at it, then give Infuse a spin. It plays just about anything, including the standard MP4, M4V and MOV…plus MKV, AVI, WMV, MTS, FLV, OGM, OGV, ASF, 3GP, DVR-MS, WebM, WTV and fully certified Dolby® Digital Plus (AC3/E-AC3), DTS® and DTS-HD® audio.

In addition to playing local files, Infuse also supports browsing and playing videos stored on a Mac, PC, NAS, Wi-Fi hard drive or from UPnP/DLNA apps like Plex, Kodi (XBMC) and WMC…no syncing required.

4. AVPlayer HD ($2.99)
avplayer hd for ipad pro
The AVPlayerHD can play almost any computer video file format such as AVI, Xvid, WMV and much more clearly and effortlessly. No converting hassles. Just copy files via USB and just drag and drop into the AVPlayer’s Media Explorer.
The AVPlayerHD can also support external subtitle files such as SMI and SRT. So if you enjoy watching videos on your iPad, then the AVPlayerHD is an absolute necessity.

Video Format Extension
– Support High quality video clips (720P, 1080P )
– Dolby Digital (AC3), Dolby Digital Plus (EAC3)
– MP4, MOV, M4V
– XVID, AVI, WMV, RMVB, ASF, H264, MKV… most of all movie file formats.
– SMI, SRT, TXT, SubStationAlpha Subtitles

5. nPlayer Plus ($8.99)
nplayer plus for ipad pro
It’s a very functional iPad movie player. nPlayer supports all the most popular 1080p formats, AC3 sound, multi touch gestures and a detailed subtitles setup. Someone who likes to watch movies with original audio, may like this setup and quite a big list of the formats supported by the app – SMI, SSA, SRT, LRC, SUB, SubStation Alpha.

You can customize the text of subtitles by choosing size, color, and position of the letters. Position and size can be dynamically changed by using regular multi touch gestures. Moreover, this iPad video player can display two subtitle frames at a time (using different languages), yet this may not be too comfortable on iPad.

– Supports officially DTS audio codec (DTS HD)
– Supports officially Dolby audio codec (AC3, E-AC3)
– Supports Dolby Mobile Surround Sound
– Supports video files: MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI, WMV, ASF, FLV, OGV, RMVB, TP etc.
– Supports audio files: MP3, WAV, WMA, FLAC, APE etc.
– Supports subtitle files: SMI, SRT, SSA, IDX, SUB, LRC, SUP, MLP2 etc.
– Supports image files: JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, TIFF etc.
– Supports playlist files: CUE, M3U, PLS

If for whatever reason you still need to convert incompatible videos for viewing on iPad Pro, you can give HD Video Converter a shot.

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