Hey all
So the kids have an old iPad 2, with wifi and bluetooth. Going on a road trip soon, and in the past I've been able to put on a couple of movies onto it and just use VLC on there to play it. But I'd like to be able to give them more choice (toddlers, never stay with just the 1 thing). Just wondering the best way to go about it? Do I need 1 of those wireless flash drive/hard drives? Will it work on something this old?
Cheers
These drives are quite primitive (i.e. not very powerful CPU, small cache, and slow wifi). If you need to stream movies from them, just try to get the lower quality/higher compression files, preferable less than 1GB file. Otherwise, you might noticed lags/buffering during movie play.
We've used hotspot before so they can access Netflix.
If the iPad 2 is jailbroken and on iOS 6 or older, you can just plug it to an external hard drive or pen drive via a camera adaptor and copy movies into the vlc folder and play from there.
Like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSHEY4mwMV0
I Used to do that on my old iPad 3 years ago
Make sure you have SD videos so the wireless can keep up! We had major issues with HD when I used one of these.
OK I think I've found my own answer lol just hope it works, hoping someone has real-world experience.
So seems I can use either the Seagate 2.5" 500GB White STDC500306 Wireless Portable Hard Drive or 1 of the SanDisk 16GB Connect Wireless Flash Drives. Just hoping VLC 'sees' it as a source