iPad 2 viewing hd videos

The question is where did the video originate? If it is the HD videos sold in the iTunes Store, all of them should work perfectly on an iPad. Videos from other sources can fall out side the parameters of the iPad and do not work so well.

Have you imported this video directly into iTunes? Have you tried to have iTunes or Handbrake convert the video to an iPad version? What video app are you using to view this video? Have you tried VLC for these videos?


Dah•veed

I have videos that are .avi that are less than 1 GB that play fine in VLC, but I do not believe that those huge files would play well on an iPad 2, even with its much better video abilities.

Video formats supported:

H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;

MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;

Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format

I never have stuttering problem viewing HD videos on my iPod Touch 4 nor iPad 2. The original poster is probably using wrong file source to encode. I get better PQ than most other people because I am experienced in this area.

Recommendation: Find yourself uncompressed MPEG2-TS files. They are huge. 5 minutes worth of video will take up 700MB. I use Clone2Go software and convert it to 1280x720@ 10 Mbps for pristine PQ. I then use iTunes to import them to ipod or ipad 2. No stutter, no nothing. They are very sharp and crisp.

You can convert the videos with HandBrake to 'HD iPad format' and then they play perfectly;

http://www.handbrake.fr/