No app capable of high-quality HEVC playback on XS Max

[collin_]

I am trying to watch a 4k HDR (.mkv, HEVC) movie on iPhone XS Max. It is about 2 hours long and 18 GB. I know 4k is overkill on a phone screen, but this is the only size I could obtain in HDR.

I cannot find an app that can play this movie without lagging. Tried VLC, iPlayerExtreme, etc. Playback is choppy. When it's not lagging it looks incredible.

Now I know that this is a high bitrate, but shouldn't the phone be able to handle this easily due to HEVC hardware decoding? According to MediaInfo, the bitrate of this file is slightly lower than the bitrate of 4k30 footage recorded using the phone, and obviously the iPhone can smoothly play its own footage.

 

[max2]

I am trying to watch a 4k HDR (.mkv, HEVC) movie on iPhone XS Max. It is about 2 hours long and 18 GB. I know 4k is overkill on a phone screen, but this is the only size I could obtain in HDR.

I cannot find an app that can play this movie without lagging. Tried VLC, iPlayerExtreme, etc. Playback is choppy. When it's not lagging it looks incredible.

Now I know that this is a high bitrate, but shouldn't the phone be able to handle this easily due to HEVC hardware decoding? According to MediaInfo, the bitrate of this file is slightly lower than the bitrate of 4k30 footage recorded using the phone, and obviously the iPhone can smoothly play its own footage.

Try nPlayer

 

[collin_]

Try nPlayer

Works, thanks so much! Apparently the other two apps didn't even support HDR

 

[ManuCH]

I am trying to watch a 4k HDR (.mkv, HEVC) movie on iPhone XS Max. It is about 2 hours long and 18 GB. I know 4k is overkill on a phone screen, but this is the only size I could obtain in HDR.

I cannot find an app that can play this movie without lagging. Tried VLC, iPlayerExtreme, etc. Playback is choppy. When it's not lagging it looks incredible.

Now I know that this is a high bitrate, but shouldn't the phone be able to handle this easily due to HEVC hardware decoding? According to MediaInfo, the bitrate of this file is slightly lower than the bitrate of 4k30 footage recorded using the phone, and obviously the iPhone can smoothly play its own footage.

While you're at it, could you also try Infuse in addition to nPlayer? I wonder if it can handle such heavy files as well.

 

[Minorite]

+1 for Infuse, also interested if it works.

 

[Pepe4life]

I play 60GB 4K HEVC files through infuse without a problem

 

[Minorite]

I play 60GB 4K HEVC files through infuse without a problem

Thanks for the info!

 

[Chargerdan]

Can't speak for the others but Infuse works well for me. Plays everything I throw at it.