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Tonido will support playback of  iOS Native formats (MP4 files) including the DRM files (those purchased from iTunes provided the iPad was previously synced with the computer to allow the licenses to transfer) .

Windows Version All  Versions of Tonido server only (as of v2.61) has Desktop servers (Windows, Mac and Linux)  have the capability to perform "Live Streaming" of incompatible video formats to iOS compatible formats. This requires a sufficiently powerful computer. For all other cases the video files must be converted upfront  for playback (Tonido provides this function as well) . Live transcoding support will be made available for Mac and Linux computer in future.

 Tonido iOS app will automatically select the best method to play the video depending on the Server capabilities.

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Yes. Tonido supports watching video that are in your computer without downloading to your iOS device. All Tonido devices allow streaming of natively supported formats of iOS (mp4).

As of Tonido server v2.61, the Windows version Tonido Desktop versions  (Windows, Mac and Linux) of Tonido server also supports live conversion of video formats that are not natively supported in iOS. This requires the computer to be somewhat powerful enough to perform the encoding on the fly. For all other cases, you can do "offline" transcoding to convert the videos to natively supported iOS formats.

Supported Video

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Types in Tonido iOS App

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Tonido will automatically transcode (if possible). 

Tonido will automatically transcode (if possible). At this time of writing (Tonido v2.61), only Windows version supports the 

live transcoding. All other versions of Tonido will require offline transcoding before a video can be played.

File TypeTranscoding	RequiredLive Streaming Supported
MOV	YES
MP4	NOYES
M4V	NOYES
MPG	YES
MPEG	YES
AVI	YES
VOB	YES
MKV	YES
WMV	YES
XVID	YES
FLV	YES
SWF	YES
OGG	YES
GP3	YES
MTS	YES
M2TS	YES

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What is Live streaming?

Tonido v2.61 in Windows Desktop server has the ability to transcode a non compatible video file on the fly to allow playback of the file. This requires a sufficiently powerful computer to allow smooth playback.Future version of Tonido will support Live streaming on Linux and Mac systems (they should be powerful enough to be able to do transcoding).

How do I Play non Native iOS formats from Non Windows computer or low powered Windows Computer using Tonido iOS App?

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