Hello everybody!
In this video I will show you how to play FLAC files on iPhone or iPad, what applications
support AVI, MKV, XVID, WMV, 3GP, FLV and other non-standard video formats.
We will have a look at the most popular programs to play music
and video on IOS devices.
In the previous video I have already said that the standard audio formats for Apple
devices are the following: AAC, HE AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, AC 3, E AC 3, AAX и AAX+, Apple
Lossless, AIFF and WAV.
Video formats: AVI, MOV, M4V.
Compression standards MJPEG, MPEG-4 or H.264.
Most often, IPhone or IPad users have problems with playing FLAC audio files.
Talking of video files, the number of supported formats is much smaller.
The first thing to strike you is no support for MKV and AVI formats.
IPhone supports only a few formats.
If you try loading files in an unsupported audio or video format, it will not be played
or even loaded.
If you use iTunes to load files, it will refuse to work with such unsupported formats.
Users often face this problem trying to load FLAC audio files that no Apple device can
support.
You can solve this problem by converting music into a format recognized by iPhone or iPad,
or by installing an application that can work with such formats.
If you know which format your device needs, you can use one of the many converters to
work on your audio files.
For example, Movavi Converter, find the link in the description:
To do it: • Install the program on your computer and
start it • Add the file you want to convert
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and select the output format • Click on the “Start” button.
To save your time from thinking about all of the audio and video formats, some of them
certainly not supported by your device, Movavi Converter offers to convert files by device
type.
For example, if I have iPhone 7 and need to convert files to be played on it:
• I add a file to the program • Select the tab Devices / Apple
• and choose my device from the list • If you don’t know your device model,
don’t worry - the program can recognize it automatically.
To enable this option, click on the icon with the magnifying glass and the program will
detect devices connected to the computer.
• As we can see, the device we have selected is now shown in the Output Format line.
That is, all files will be converted into a format compatible with this device.
It is very convenient.
• Click Start and the FLAC audio file will be converted into a compatible format.
In the same way, you can convert an MKV video file into a format compatible with iPhone
or iPad.
From AppStore, you can also install alternatives to the default audio player; they can play
the files in formats incompatible with the Apple standard player.
You can choose a player to your taste.
Among free products, I’d like to point out some names:
• Vox – in addition to standard formats, this audio player can work with FLAC, APE,
WMA and CUE.
• FLAC Player+ Don’t let the FLAC word in the name of this
player confuse you.
It can work with other formats too, including MP3, AAC, WMA, RM.
However, availability of a Lossless codec makes it an interesting choice for those who
value high quality sound.
You can load music to the library without iTunes as well.
Having enabled the function of Wi-Fi file transfer for the application, you can follow
the link shown in your computer’s browser to quickly load audio tracks through the web
interface.
If you want, you can install alternatives to the standard video player from AppStore.
You can choose a player to your taste.
Among others, I’d like to point out some products:
• AVPlayer - It can play video in huge number of formats including those unknown to iTunes:
AVI, XVID, WMV, RMVB, ASF, H264, MKV, 3GP, FLV.
In all resolutions, it supports subtitles in SMI, SRT, TXT and SubStation Alpha.
However, it is not free.
You can download AVPlayer for iPhone or iPad, find the links in the description.
• VLC - the most popular free video player.
Many users know it from its desktop version.
Traditionally, it supports all necessary formats: AVI, DIVX, MKV, WMV, VOB, 3GP, AC3 and many
others.
VLC can play streaming video and download it from web servers, Wi-Fi, Dropbox, Mega
and even Yandex.Disk.
You can download VLC for iPhone and iPad for free.
Find the link in the description:
• Player Extreme - one more free video player supporting almost all existing video formats.
They include 3gp, asf, avi, divx, dv, dat, flv, gxf, m2p, m2ts, m2v, m4v, mkv, moov,
mov, mp4, mpeg, mpeg1, mpeg2, mpeg4, mpg, mpv, mt2s, mts, mxf, ogm, ogv, ps, qt, rm,
rmvb, ts, vob, webm, wm, wmv
The player supports HD 1080p in all formats as well as SRT, SSA/ASS, SMI and other subtitle
formats in almost all languages.
It also supports files with several audio tracks.
It can increase sound volume when watching films without earphones.
But it’s not enough to install an alternative video player on your device to play the formats
that standard players can’t handle.
It is because you cannot load FLAC audio files, MKV or AVI video files into iTunes in a standard
way.
It happens because iTunes, and accordingly iPhone or iPad has a common library of files
which default applications can access, while every third-party application has its own
file library.
By default, iTunes downloads files in formats compatible with default applications into
the common library.
That is, to be able to play a file of a different format you should load it to the library of
an application that supports it.
How can you do that?
• Connect your iPhone or iPad to the computer and start iTunes
We showed how to do it in one of the previous videos.
• Click on the smartphone icon in the left upper corner of the screen
• In the window with information on your device that opens select the menu Programs
• Go to the bottom of the screen to Programs / Documents
• In order to add a FLAC audio file to iPhone or iPad, click on the audio player that supports
this format • After that, in the Documents window click
on “Add file” and add it to the application library.
• Ready.
• Go from the device to the application where the file was added and you can see the
file in its library.
• In the same way, you can add MKV or AVI video files
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