I am a subscriber to Kelbytraining.com mainly for the photography and post processing tutorials. I watch the videos from my laptop or main PC, and have so far, not had any luck playing the videos on my Sony Tablet S. The videos seem to stutter and freeze. I believe the videos are encoded using Shockwave, to allow them to tie into the main site. There is an iOS app but so far, no Android app available. I am toying with the idea of buying an iPad and selling on my Tablet S (I should be able to get around £260 for it, so a fair chunk towards the cost of the iPad). However, apart from the looks, I am still not sold on it. One big bonus would be if the iPad app for Kelbytraining worked well. Does anyone have any experience of the app - is it good? Worth swapping from Android to iOS for? The only other uses for the tablet at the moment are browsing, email (Gmail for domains, which I think can be downloaded without too much fuss?), Zinio magazine reader, Kindle and YouTube. Oh and Tapatalk for Forums - is there an iOS version? I use an Android phone - HTC One X - so it makes sense to keep an Android tablet - it's just not being able to watch the Kelby videos is a pain.
Gmail, Zinio, Kindle & You Tube all work well on the ipad. Tapatalk is available as well (it came out on IOS first)
Not used that app I'm afraid, but the iOS platform apps usually handle all their videos in a standard way which is pretty much guaranteed to give good results... ...if the server distributing the streams / files is up to the job. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kelbytraining-com/id435998113?mt=8 And it looks like the KelbyTraining app suffers from this problem. It's very unlikely they've written their own software based video player / decoder so if they are using the standard iOS methods and having stuttering / paused / broken videos then the issue is with their server. Is that similar to your Android experience?
iOS 6 doesn't have native YouTube support as Apple have removed the app. Google have produced a very nice iPhone YouTube app and will be releasing an iPad version soon. YouTube in the web browser works fine though.
The app only existed because youtube ran in flash which apple don't support. Now it's all html5 this isn't an issue.
Yes that's about right - although with Android, it's all through a web browser. The strange thing is though, that on a PC it plays fine. I did wonder if it was the tablet didn't have enough umph to keep up with the video - but everything else plays fine on it.
