An iPhone, an iPod Touch and especially the iPad are excellent portable devices for watching videos and movies, because the screen is very defined and allows a clear and clear vision of each movie. Unfortunately, however, the default application to view videos on iOS supports, basically only the MP4 format, therefore, every video you want to see via iPad or iPhone, before transferring it, must be converted from the computer. For this reason, to avoid this tedious job, it is better to have another video player by downloading one of these applications.
In this list of best video player applications for iPhone and iPad, media players for movies and some applications to watch videos streamed from the internet and also from the computer (via wifi) will be listed.
To watch a video file on the iOS device, you can download the following best free video player applications for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch from the Apple App Store.
1) PlayerXtreme is probably the best video player for iPhone and iPad, which supports all types of video files such as: 3gp, asf, avi, divx, dv, dat, flv, GXF, M2P, M2TS, m2v, m2v, m4v, mkv, Moov, mov, mp4, mpeg, mpeg1, mpeg2, mpeg4, mpg, mpv, mt2s, mt, MXF, ogm, ogv, ps, qt, RM, RMVB, ts, vob, webm, wm, wmv. In addition to playback, this app also allows you to play videos from your PC or another network device and also transfer videos from your computer to iPhone via Wifi network. It also supports subtitles and also allows you to download them.
2) VLC for iPhone and iPad returns to the Apple Store after two years of absence and becomes the best and most flexible application for watching videos and movies on iOS .
3) 8Player is another among the best free applications to watch videos and movies AVI, DivX, Xvid, VOB, MKV, MP4, MOV, OGM, WMV, FLV and other formats on iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, also in quality HD.
If you don't need additional functions, I would say that this is the player to install, especially because it's free.
4) OPlayer is a similar application that is used above all to watch videos from http sources, that is videos found on the internet .
OPlayer is in 3 versions: OPlayer Lite for iPhone and iPod, OplayerHD Lite for iPad and OPlayer for a fee. If the internet connection is good, you can stream videos from any site with this media player.
5) KMPlayer Mobile is the iPhone and iPad version of the famous open source PC player. KMPlayer, free, allows you to watch videos and movies on the iPhone and iPad even with subtitles. KMPlayer supports 3gp, avi, divx, flv, mkv, mp4, mpeg, ogg, vob, wmv videos and many others. It also supports streaming video playback from the internet, including from Youtube.
6) InFuse is a video player for the elegant interface, with AirPlay support for streaming videos, subtitles, synchronization with iTunes, and the ability to play any format without conversion.
7) AirVideo HD is the application that allows you to watch, streaming and via wifi, the videos and movies that are on your computer, directly from the iPhone or iPad . the Airvideo player supports almost all formats and works if iPhone or iPad are connected to the same wireless network as the computer. In this case, the movies can be streamed, without any transfer or prior conversion.
A similar application to watch PC video streaming on iPhone and iPad is AirPlayit which is completely free .
8) YXPlayer for iPhone, iPod and iPad also supports MKV formats. This video player also works to watch streaming videos saved online in free storge services such as 4Shared, DropBox, Google Docs and Box.net and has an integrated browser that supports viewing the flash videos of some sites.
9) MX Video Player is the iPhone version of a hugely popular Android smartphone app, which supports all common video formats. The MX Video Player interface is optimized for Retina Display, for an excellent movie viewing experience.
10) AVPlayer is an excellent video player for watching movies in AVI and MKV formats.
11) Movie Player, as the title says, allows you to watch movies, transferring them from PC to iPhone or iPad, without having to convert them first.
12) nPlayer Lite is an excellent application to watch videos without having to convert them which can also play videos from various streaming sites and remote devices.
13) WMV HD Player & Importer is an app with clean design and easy to use interface, great for playing Full HD videos of all types of video file formats such as flv, MPEG, pg, mkv, mp4, etc.
14) PowerHD Media Player can play almost all major video file formats. The interface of PowerHD Media Player is very clean and simple to use, with gesture support.
15) It's Playing works well for playing local files or streaming videos from cloud storage and local area networks. The app offers video resolution up to 1080p, can play videos on AirPlay and has Dolby Digital audio output. It supports several video file formats, including MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI, WMV, VOB and RMVB.
I only remember that, if you need to convert a video to view it on iPhone or iPad with the standard application, there are several programs to convert Avi and DVD videos and watch them on iPhone (to MP4) .
There is no perfect video player for iOS, some applications promise the viewing of videos of any format, including those in high quality MKV and the classic AVI or Divx but they work well only on the latest generations of iPad, iPod Touch.
Especially MKV 720p videos on iPhone may not be readable on older models that don't have enough power.
Videos can be uploaded to the device via iTunes.
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