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Originally Posted by stustaff
But air video isnt a video player as such.
it works by displaying a stream sent by a connected PC. not much use on a plane or on holiday.
And if I am at home I'll watch video on the large HD its connected to.
Nothing wrong with it as an app but for playing video from the memory stick its about as useful an app as Stanza or the big calculator app  |
Hmm... why does everyone think that AirVideo is only a streamer? Bad marketting on their part I guess.
AirVideo
also converts offline for syncing through iTunes. It'll convert anything into a H264 file and you can queue just as many things as you wish and let it rip. The only clunky thing about this is that you can't control the destination of the converted file: it will be saved in the same directory your original came from in m4V format with "airvideo" tacked on to the name.
It's also a very fast converter. I have tested it head to head against Handbrake and it wins hands down.
I have watched many, many things offline I pre-converted with it.
It also has the unique capacity of streaming from your desktop over the internet to your iPad over wifi or 3G (I wouldn't recommend the later with a limited data plan for obvious reasons.) Setting that up took me all 30 seconds with my particular router although some people seem to have issues with that and that functionality is labeled "beta."