This article is only meant for advanced users - ones that 1, know how the file system of iDevices can be accessed; 2, aren't afraid of doing so. Note that unless you edit other files than I describe, my fix is absolutely safe. The absolutely stunning, great media player I've very frequently recommended, nPlayer ($2.99; AppStore link; Universal app), has just been updated to version 1.10.
This post is intended for readers with advanced technical knowledge who have jailbroken devices. If you don't jailbreak, it contains information about the real-world performance of Apple's new Lightning-HDMI adapter.
As a developer for iOS, Android, and Windows who also teaches their programming, I have all the major iDevice models ever released. (But, naturally, I don't have the different storage / 3G / color configurations in one model.)
As I always carry many of these iDevices with me, I also need at least twice the number of cables. Let's also take into account that Apple's own cables have a tendency to break apart and the need increases even more. Just Google, “iPhone cable breaking apart”; and you'll find threads with pictures such as this and this.
This post is intended for readers with advanced technical knowledge. This article explains how you can mirror and show Web-based Flash videos on external displays connected to your iDevice. In order to answer the questions of several people at MacRumors (original thread), I've decided to thoroughly test the external monitor/Apple TV mirroring/playback capabilities of the currently available Flash browsers.
This post is intended for readers with advanced technical knowledge. In this article, I will explain how to transfer videos to Apple’s built-in Videos app with a brand new version of the excellent, free, all-in-one iDevice transfer tool, iFunBox. In the past, uploading videos to the Videos app has only been possible via the Movies tab in iTunes. iTunes, which is Apple's only desktop tool for transferring videos/movies to the Videos app, has restrictions, which make it impossible to transfer the following types of videos to iDevices:
Azul Media Player (Currently $0.99 for iPhone) is being featured in Apple's Staff Favorites as "The #1 Travel App of 2012." While I've never recommended it personally, I decided to thoroughly test version 4.5 to find out if I should trust its recent recommendations.
For programmers or people with advanced technical knowledge. Optimizing your videos, assuming they haven't been purchased from the iTunes Store, is of extreme importance if you stream them to iOS devices, particularly to an Apple TV. In my previous article, I've shown you some ways of finding out whether a video file is optimized. Check out this article on how optimization needs to be done if you run into a non-optimized video, with, for example, the absolutely excellent Subler.
A fairly new entry onto the iOS media-player scene is iMPlayer 1.3.0 ($2.99). While the player has some useful features — which I will elaborate on — in a word: I do not recommend this player, unless you need its bookmarks feature. Otherwise, its performance is just too weak for its price point.
As I pointed out in my previous article, iMedia Player is an excellent free multimedia player. And now its developers have announced the debut of a separate, commercial app, MPlayer ($2.99) officially licensing the (E-)AC3 audio codec.
iDevices make great video playback machines thanks to their (in most cases) excellent screen and built-in hardware support for video decoding and playback. Tons of third-party multimedia player apps have sprung up to meet demand, and their developers update them frequently. These recent updates are great news for multimedia enthusiasts. I will review major updates of two of the best players, AVPlayerHD and It's Playing, and will report on new versions of some other players as well. Let's start with AVPlayerHD.
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