How to play movies on iPad?

If they are mov / mp4 / m4v files, just drag them into the Movies tab of your desktop iTunes and enable movie synching to your iPad when it's connected, from the Movies tab under your iPad's view.

If they're in another format, you need to remux, transcode or use third-party players.

Hi, buddy

iPad supports playing MP4, MOV, M4V videos, yes, but for iPad 1 and iPad 2, the better video encoder is h.264, and up to 720p (1280*720) resolution, if using MPEG-4 encoder, up to 640*480 resolution.

for the new iPad 3, use H.264, up to 1080p MP4, MOV, M4V formatted video, and

• AirPlay Mirroring to Apple TV (2nd and 3rd generation) at 720p
• AirPlay video streaming to Apple TV (3rd generation) at up to 1080p and Apple TV (2nd generation) at up to 720p
• Video mirroring and video out support: Up to 1080p with Apple Digital AV Adapter or Apple VGA Adapter (adapters sold separately)
• Video out support at 576i and 480i with Apple Composite AV Cable (cable sold separately)

so, if your videos are these formats file, you can drag your videos to iTunes now, then sync them to your iPad.

if not, you can read this article http://www.movies-to-ipad.com

Theoretically, yes. In practice, however, you can safely put 1080p content even on your iPad 1 and 2. That is, you don't need to re-encode them at all.

With the iPad 1 (or the iPad 2 running pre-iOS 5 versions), iTunes won't be able to synch 1080p MOV files to the iPad, not even with the Level-downgrading trick (see http://www.iphonelife.com/blog/87/making-stock-videos-application-play-every-mp4 -files-possible for more info). There, you'll need to use iTunes File Sharing to transfer the files to third-party video player apps like GoodPlayer or AVPlayerHD that support hardware playback. Most of them do support HW playback; if you're unsure about the non-GoodPlayer / non-AVPlayerHD one you'd like to use, feel free to ask me, I'll answer. (I've tested ALL the multimedia players for iOS so I'll be able to answer.)