What multimedia player(s) can play most formats and access a Windows share directly

[Commodore]

Just like the title says... I'm looking for some decent media player that can play any audio/video format and access a Windows shared folder directly (to play stuff from there). Is there something like that available at all?

I have FileBrowser to access desktop files. It works great for "office" documents, as well as for supported multimedia formats. For unsupported media formats, I can send it to another media player from there, but it takes quite a while to actually copy the file (I suppose it would be faster if the player just accessed the share directly). I also have VLC, but it tells me to copy files to iPad. CinexPlayer plays a lot of video formats, but I also have to "add" files to it.

I'm looking for a quick and efficient way to read/play audio/video files stored on a desktop computer (or an external drive attached to it, or a CD/DVD media in it). I don't want to "import" or "add" (or even have to convert) the files. A hopeless case?

 

[DefBref]

Buzz player?

BUZZ Player HD for iPad on the iTunes App Store

☆ BUZZ Player supports various protocols: RTP, RTSP, HTTP, FTP, MMS, Netstream (mpst://), SMB, ffmpeg://, that allows user not only play media files from local but also play media files from remote servers and devices. User can use BUZZ Player to connect to their IP cameras and servers to play media from them.

☆ BUZZ Player also has Built-in Network Browser allows user to play and copy files from Widows/Mac/Linux PC, remote SAMBA servers, FTP servers, Media Server (uPnP) and Air Video Server (SMB & FTP & uPnP & Air Video Server Support). It can remember user name / password for Local Network Connection so that you don't need to retype them next time open local network

 

[Commodore]

Awesome! Thanks. :thumbs:
Now if only I could find a way to make Buzz player read the music pushed locally by SugarSync...

 

[Beherith]

VM Player - can access not only windows shares, but also ftp and upnp