nPlayer Review – Slick and featureful video player for iOS

– Hey dude, did you watch that video I sent you the other day?
– Crap, couldn’t open it on my iPad and forgot

Been there? I have, several times. Well, right until a few days ago when I got nPlayer. Is it the ultimate video player experience for iPad? Well, it might actually be. I, for one, won’t be searching more through the App Store jungle: nPlayer is all I need for video playback on my iDevices.

The list of features and supported codecs is so long it’s mindblowing. Can it play format X? Quite likely. I threw at it the weirdest files I had in my hard drives and nPlayer didn’t miss a beat. Subtitle files? Piece of cake. Streaming from Plex to my iPad? Yeah. AirPlay from nPlayer to my Apple TV of a video streamed via a cheap “networked drive”? Yup! It’s not only the endless feature list, is that it solves several pain points I had with multimedia at home.

As for usability, nPlayer is a joy to behold. Slick, fast and responsive. It’s “miniview” (so you can watch the video while you are changing some settings within the app) is 10 times better than Youtube’s (of cours this is not hard, but nPlayer’s is actually useful, not like Youtube’s.) It has a great range of settings to tweak anything (caching, retina rendering, color themes, gestures – yay!–, using remote controls…) You name it, it’s in there.

After almost a week of playing videos almost non-stop (advantages of freelancing :D) I’ve found no glitches or problems with the app: it’s as perfect as it can get. Or more. Well worth its current price, it could easily sell by twice that. Grab it while the developers don’t realise it!

Oh, and a nice thing: Since nPlayer is based off two open source codec libraries (ffmpeg and SoundTouch) its source code is totally available. Great work from the developer team!

The post nPlayer Review – Slick and featureful video player for iOS appeared first on What's On Iphone.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *