How do you transfer a movie to the Touch HD and get it to play?
I've got an .avi movie.
1h 32m
647MB
720 x 576
192 kbps
I've tried Syncing it using Windows Media 10.
Only about 5kbs transfers to the phone!?
I've tried copy & pasting via USB but nothing seems to happen.
Looks like it's transfering but taking an age and the progress bar doesn't move!!!
Is the file too big? Does the file have to be converted to another format?
Smaller .avi files play.
Any help here please?!
What playback software are you using?
Hi
When you connect your phone you usually have an option to do only a file transfer and not a sync.
I suggest you select that , then copy and paste your movie file to your microSD card.
I suppose its slow because the phone is syncing and transfering the file at the same time.
Hope This Helps
Jay
YUP agreed. All you do is select data transfer after connecting your phone via USB to your computer. Then go to my computer go to mobile device go to storage card then either drag and drop or copy and paste.
You can use a CardReader: in my opinion it is better solution if you must move big files.
D'rath
Big Thanks to everyone! It was doing my head in!!!
Waiting for your help, I continued to play around with the Touch HD.
Seems that when you connect the HTC Touch HD to the PC via USB, there's an option to choose between...
ActiveSync
Disk Drive
Internet Sharing.
When I tried to look at Mobile Device in My Computer (on the PC), I thought I'd somehow wiped the storage card . Looking again, I'd somehow chosen the Disk Drive option, and then in My Computer, another drive - Removable Disc (L) appeared holding my Touch HD storage card data.
I copy & pasted the movie (.avi) files from my PC hd to the (L) drive and the files transfered in the usual way.
Thanks again to all who took time out to advise. Hope my little guide can also help folk in a similar position!
Related
since this is my first post...u can all me newbie.
I'm trying to copy/paste some movies to device.
The card is 256mb from sandisk. Usually the is in divx mode. But the transfer takes a long time, and never ends!
So, is it because of the format of movie?
The size?
Have tried an app to rip from dvd to divs. Even then can't copy the stupid thing!
Some can gime me some hints?
thx a bunch
Oh...by the way, never thought that so many people uses the same device as me... :shock:
Hi,
I tend to use an SD card reader to copy large files onto my SD card.
I had big issues with the file explorer hanging when transferring a movie to my SD via Active sync. When I use a card reader, no problems and it's a LOT quicker
The only time I use active sync to transfer files is when i need to convert something into a PocketPC format (eg. excel to pocketexcel).
Good luck, I do enjoy watching a movie on the train or while I'm waiting for something.
Hooligan
So, u are saying, use something like a card reader/writer? Guess that's what u are saying. Will try that one.
Thx a bunch! :wink:
I use a card reade/write and often have problems when I remove the card after copying files to it I get "delayed write error", I now click on eject before removing it which I think flushes the memory buffer.
If you plan on sync'ing big files (ie movies regularly), than I would also suggest you get a card reader. However, make sure you get a USB 2.0 reader to really speed things up. I'm not sure if a USB 1.1 reader will improve MUCH on the speed of Activesync.
I have a 2.0 reader, which I bought on E-bay (you can get them from as little as 6GBP) and it sync's a movie that would normally take about 18mins to sync with the cradle, to about 2 mins!
I also sync a lot of music/songs to my storage card, taking about 5 seconds to sync a song.
I transfer movie files from pc to PPC via active sync and have had no bother !
best program to use is DVD to PPC ! find it very easy to use and never failed me yet !
anyone got anything interesting to watch on XDAII then ?
cheers
Hello. I've done a lot of searchs to try and find an answer to my problem. I'm not able to transfer most video files from my PC to my 8525. I've tried to do it in Windows Media Player via sync and also just to drag and drop them into the memory card folder on the phone. Nothing seems to work. I have the same problem with .mp4 and .avi files. I have several video ipod formated files I would like to have on my 8525 but I can't get them there. I think they would play once they were there b/c CorePlayer seems to play anything I throw at it. I can watch .3gp files that I download online, but can't transfer anything from my PC. Cab and exe files transfer fine, just not large video files.
any advice? thanks!
I transferred Divx files to the MicroSD to be played with TCPMP. I found it sooo slow with active sync that I now pull the card, use a USB 2.0 card reader on the PC and load about three 400meg movies on a 2gig card leaving 500meg for GPS map data and email. Using the card reader takes about 3 minutes per movie, far better than active sync could ever do.
i have a sandisk 16 gb microsd
my hd2 is in disk drive mode
i want to copy music to my hd2
this is the problem every time i try i can play 3 or 4 number from an album , the rest is unreadable or something like that
i tried mp3,wmv files
nothing helped
my card is fat32 formated
format through pc and hd2
nothing helped
try using activesync mode
settings->menu->all settings->connections->usb to pc->active sync
then go to my computer find your phone go to storage card and copy the files, perhaps this will make a difference.
The way I copy media files is by connecting via ActiveSync as jfmckenna says, then using Windows Media Player on the PC to sync my media files. This is easy if you use Windows Media Player as your main player on the PC.
After connecting your HD2 via ActiveSync, just whack up Windows Media Player and click on the 'Sync' tab near the top of the program, then just drag your music/media from the library on your computer to the 'Sync' column.
If you have files which aren't already in the library, just drag them from Windows Explorer into the library of Windows Media Player. The best bit is usually Windows Media Player will convert the file on the fly when syncing if the media file isn't compatible with your phone.
Hope this helps!!
personally i've had nothing but trouble using active sync or media player to copy music. the only way i transfer it now is by connecting in hard disk mode then drag and drop directly.
just goes to show what works for one doesn't for others.
Is anyone having difficulty getting certain types of files to transfer? Sometimes it'll stop transferring and I'll have to close explorer.exe. I tried using winamp to sync but I get an error message saying the files are incompatible, even though RockPlayer will work.
Need more info to help you out. What OS and version are you using. What type of video are you trying to transfer (size and format). Are you using the stock USB cable and are you using the USB on the front or back of you computer?
JC3 said:
Need more info to help you out. What OS and version are you using. What type of video are you trying to transfer (size and format). Are you using the stock USB cable and are you using the USB on the front or back of you computer?
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Win 7 ultimate. .mkv files which will play with RockPlayer, about 400mb each. I have to transfer them one at a time it looks like. Dragging the entire folder over freezes the copy process. Im using the stock cable which is inserted in a USB port in the back of my computer.
It might be the fact that the Xoom is recognized as a portable device and not an external drive. When copying over a folder does that warning message say it may not play on the device pop up?
Hi Guys,
Loving my transfer from iphone to the Gnote, i find android impressive but i have a question, how can i transfer music to my Gnote? I have tried Kies but i can only move 1 song at a time.......totally leborious!!
Help!!!!
Just drag the files to the sd card in mass storage mode
Or maybe create a playlist in windows media player and then import it using keis?
In the android world, its very simple... Forget about Kies.
1. Connect your phone to your PC using the USB Cable.
2. Mount your SD card so that your SD card appears as a D: or E: or any other drive in the My Computer section of your PC.
3. Copy all your songs to the SD card. Create a "Songs" folder if you like.
4. "Safely remove" your device / Unmount the SD Card.
5. Enjoy your music on your Android Phone.
By the way, you can do this on any PCs. So, if you have some songs on your laptop & not on your desktop, you can connect to the laptop & still be able to transfer your songs from there. You don't need Kies... or other softwares. It works very much like a pen drive really...
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Or maybe create a playlist in windows media player and then import it using keis?
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i just create a playlist in windows media player and sync that playlist. but for some reason, the playlist wont appear in my note. when i did it with my old atrix, the playlist would appear in the music player.
slow mtp
Hello everyone,
just wondering if anyone else is experience pretty slow file transfer speeds? I'm getting it both with Kies, and with drag and drop (on my macbook). I'm just putting about 29GB of music straight onto the SD card. It's a class 4, so nothing special, but the whole thing seems to take quite a long time. Maybe I'm just too used to filling up a usb stick in seconds, but I'm sure the SGS was faster in this front.
If you are simply transferring files, you are better off putting the Note into mass storage mode: Menu > Settings > Wireless And Network > USB utilities it should be faster that way.
padlad said:
If you are simply transferring files, you are better off putting the Note into mass storage mode: Menu > Settings > Wireless And Network > USB utilities it should be faster that way.
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There is a less annoying way to do this.
Plug the GNote into a USB port.
Open the notification bar and touch the USB notification line.
Sends you to the same place but you don't have to tunnel through options.