Bring movies to the iPad

Original Poster

24,432 posts

197 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014

So, my friend is in the hospital with her iPad, I'm going to visit her today and I've got a couple of movies on my laptop (Ubuntu) I want to bring her.
Sadly, it's a wifi only iPad 2 and no wifi in the hospital. I've got a 30 pin cable. Is it possible? Is there a piece of software on Ubuntu /iOS that'll do it? The laptop has bluetooth as well, would that be able to transfer them? Most of them are mkv's, should I convert them?

I've had experience with iPad's but it's been a long time since I wanted to load media on it, any takers?

I looked online but couldn't find an easy solution, so I'm guessing I'm going to need a piece of software?

Thanks a lot!

Original Poster

24,432 posts

197 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014

audi321 said:

The easiest way would be to get VLC player on her ipad but unless she already has it and without wifi in hospital that's not going to be possible (could you tether your phone to allow her to download it? It might be called PlayerXtreme now) That's the easy way as you can then follow this video.

Thanks, I can indeed tether my phone for an app!

audi321 said:

Without wifi, you're still going to need iTunes on your laptop though and import the file as above.

I can't think of another way without wifi, but i'm sure someone else will be along soon.....

Hmm, problem is I can't find iTunes for Ubuntu (yes, I'm one of those). I left my windows laptop at home, just realising the situation I've put myself in banghead

.
Can I not do it directly? I have a USB cable, I have wifi on both devices, bluetooth... there must be a way?

Original Poster

24,432 posts

197 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014

audi321 said:

A bit of Googling brings up this solution too, which may help you madmen with ubuntu wink

Thanks, seems like that'll work!
As for pulling them through the cloud on my data allowance, I rather not biggrin

Original Poster

24,432 posts

197 months