If you’re cheap and are willing to sacrifice some quality for a free app with more limitations, VidOn might be fine.Įither way definitely download Infuse, even in crippled form it’s worth inspecting and checking out. You can play any video basically, directly from the NAS, no go between **bleep**. On the other hand, Infuse takes care of any needed codecs or format handling natively, so there is no middleman. Con: it may require one of those **bleep** servers you’ve gotta install to transcode for full format support. It’s free actually, and detects/navigates the NAS smoothly and quickly as well. But I am fine with that.įailing that, there’s another one that is not nearly as good as infuse, but it still works better than the other **bleep**. But I presume that is “for now”, since it’s still kind of new and they are still adding features. It was worth it to me to finally have a DLNA client that actually worked. I took a blind chance and I’m pleased that I did. I was very apprehensive about paying the $7 or whatever without even being able to know if the steaming sucked like the rest or not. But at least you can get a feel of the interface and feel of it. What you won’t be able to do in the free one is stream. It is free, but it is crippled until you buy the full version via in-app, and it’s a bit steep, about $7. There’s two caveats only that I should tell you. It loads indexes and thumbs quickly and the video is smooth and the best and most consistent I’ve seen yet. For audio tracks, it does AAC, MP3, FLAC, OGG, AC3 etc. It plays everything the others lack in one or the other… MP4, MKV, WMV, FLV, AVI and other obscure **bleep**.

I went through so many and finally lately I have found the one, I think: Infuse 2.

Even the ones you would normally believe to be solid (VLC) are subpar.

I’ve been searching for a decent DLNA client for iOS for years only to find constant **bleep**.

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