#Vlc better alternatives for ipad and mac tv#
Thanks to VLC, Apple TV now supports nearly every audio and video file format you can find. Files from WMP weren’t enumerated perfectly right off the bat, but that might just as easily been WMP as VLC. My NAS boxes offer DLNA, and so does Windows Media Player. Either it took too long to cache, or there was another issue.īut even MKV played fine when I streamed it to VLC using DLNA. The one notable fail was MKV files-one 500MB, the other 30GB. That’s not surprising as all the versions of VLC use internal codecs for just about everything. When working within those limitations, VLC handled MP4, WMV, FLV, OGG, QuickTime, and just about everything else even some old Real Media formats. VLC for Apple TV understands HEVC and UHD (3840 by 2160, or 2160p), but successful playback was limited to 1080 and frames per second to 30 for reasons undetermined. It also played 5.1- and 7.1-channel surround sound. In addition to the usual M4A, MP3, and WAV support, VLC also played both Apple Lossless and WMA Lossless, APE, FLAC, OGG, and even Opus. VLC on Apple TV browsing files on an iPad Excellent format supportĪudio support was nothing short of fantastic. I’m thinking that’s a bug and expect that it will soon be fixed. In my hands-on, it didn’t want to display image files, though it did list them and create thumbnails. Is VLC for Apple TV (called VLC for Mobile in the App store) perfect? No.
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