IPad Buzz Player Streams And Converts Movies From Network Storage

Buzz Player is an iPad (and iPhone and Android) app that lets you river video from flattering ample any device on your network. That means you can watch cinema stored on a network-attached hard disk without switching on a computer. It's flattering amazing.

There are other solutions for streaming video to the iPad. Air Video takes any record on your Mac or Personal Computer and converts it on-the-fly to an iPad-friendly format, but requires a P.C. to do it. Another app declared FileBrowser will river cinema send from, say, a Time Capsule, but they must be H.264 MP4 files. This may means you'll have to modify the files first.

What Buzz Player does is link up right away to any SMB or FTP server. From there, you can crop the folders until you encounter a film you'd similar to to play. Tap it and you can select to duplicate the record to your iPad, or only fool around it. The cinema starts right away, and plays stumble giveaway in clearly any format.

And we meant any format. Not only will it fool around H.264 MP4 and WMV in a operation of containers (AVI, MOV, OGG, DIVX and more), it will hoop things similar to Sorensen, Real Video and Theora. It moreover supports flattering ample any sound format, and allows you to link up over the local network or even via 3G using many networking protocols. Buzz Player even supports subtitles, and lets you tweak not only their look but to cancel out their timing - useful for getting things to sync up.

It's not all great, though. The interface is ugly, unintuitive and looks more similar to an open-source Linux plan than a discriminating iPad app. Once you obtain past this, though, it's easy sufficient to use.

I moreover obtain a few crashing. All time we strike the "X" in the tip left dilemma to back out of the current film or division of the app, it dies. When personification cinema and using the network, though, it is stable.

You unequivocally need to read the iTunes outline to see only how ample this thing can do, but let me only increase one more point. You can moreover bucket up the app with cinema via iTunes, only similar to any other video player. That way, you have flattering ample every probability covered.

Buzz Player is only $4 is to iPad, $3 is to iPhone and 499 (around $6) for Android.

Buzz Player [Bugun Software]

Buzz Player for iPad [iTunes]

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