Would an android play avi and mp4 files natively?
On my NexusS Gizmo plays allmost everything (without conversion), of course FlashPlayer must be installed.
But apart from native support for video codecs, in my opinion the iPad is overall still the best tablet pc... I would not swap
it for an android. Well, others may see this different
I must say that Iam quite disappointed. The only reason I puchased the IPAD was so that I could watch media on it via jriver.
Some sort of warning would have been nice, especially given that there are ipad apps that support jriver.
Also the iPad does not support much video codecs natively, there are a lot of DLNA apps that do so. Have you tried one of them?
If video is the main focus, I would recommend "AirPlayer". Not a nice GUI but works good with MC and plays various video files better
than PlugPlayer and several other apps I've tested.
I still hope that JRiver fixes video conversion in a way that it's also usefull for iOS devices. It would be much easier then for apps
like My River and JRemote to offer also a good video support...
EDIT:
I've still installed MC16. It offered "WebPlay". If "WebPlay" could not play a file on the iPad, it was possible to select another app to play
the file (the browser is closed, the other app is opened and the file starts to play). I've used "FlexPlayer" for this purpose and it
worked for allmost every file. Also "WebPlay" is still offered on the MC17 "Library Server" HTML start page, it seem to be broken. I guess
it was replaced by "WebGizmo". Maybe it is possible to (re)implement the "play with other app funktion" for "WebGizmo"?