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Originally Posted by Pajamaman
Off topic. I tried to add a few vids to an ipad for a friends and the ipad wouldn't let me because the format was incompatible. I think vlc would play them but the ipad wouldnt let me put the files on. I would call that closed and inflexible. I presume a veteran user could get round it, but I gave up after an hour or so. The files were not esoteric. I think they were mkvs.
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Why not install VLC on the iPad? There are other apps as well but VLC has been my go-to video players for going on 2 decades.
As for being esoteric? Matroska is not a video format. It is a container allowing you to package video, audio and subtitle files. Over the years, I've seen damn near every video and audio format stuffed into an mkv container. Is the video h.264? h.265? .mov? VP8? HEVC? Is the audio MP3? MP4? Ogg? flac? wav? AAC? Then we get into the subtitle formats. And remember container? The video, audio and subtitle files do not need to be the same format. You can get a file where part of the video is VP8 and another part is a .mov file (that one that I ran into when looking at an anime file my daughter downloaded).
I've seen mkv's where I unpacked and recoded them to get the contents to play when I did not want to install a mega-codec pack (see paranoia, justified) in hopes of being able to play the original file.