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!
Yeah...I tried to transfer my MKV files to my nexus 7 which is 100% stock and every time I drag and drop the MKV files over (Doesn't matter if I drag and drop 1 or 50) Windows explorer crashes. Anyone found a way to fix it from doing this...?
Is it over 4gb? I believe it's formatted as FAT32 and 4gb is the max file transfer.
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redmonke255 said:
Is it over 4gb? I believe it's formatted as FAT32 and 4gb is the max file transfer.
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No...they are all under 100 megabytes.
I should also note that I have to use MTP..because UMS isn't supported. But even if I try to sync them via windows media player it fails all the time.
Have you transferred other file types? This is most likely a stupid suggestion but maybe try renaming them first? Maybe it's something with the mkv extension or an illegal character in the file names. As I said, dumb suggestion, but once in a while those are the ones that work.
technically, it shouldn't be a problem. Did you checked whether JB supports MKV files? Or did you tried to transfer another type of file this big?
Try to upload a single MKV to Google Drive and download it to N7 and then play. If it works, then transferring should not be a problem.
nusairh said:
technically, it shouldn't be a problem. Did you checked whether JB supports MKV files? Or did you tried to transfer another type of file this big?
Try to upload a single MKV to Google Drive and download it to N7 and then play. If it works, then transferring should not be a problem.
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I have it hosted on my local apache web server and I just browse to the webpage and tap on it and it loads right up and plays in MX player...However no matter what I do I CANNOT transfer the files to the nexus 7...
I just tried it out, copying a 720P MKV file from Windows 7 to the Nexus 7 over MTP. Worked fine for me.
Well no matter what I did it wouldn't work...I ended up putting the files in a .tar file and copying them over and extracting the archive...it worked then but its a HUGE pain in the ass.
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[Workaround] Transfer MKV to Nexus 7
Astraea908 said:
Yeah...I tried to transfer my MKV files to my nexus 7 which is 100% stock and every time I drag and drop the MKV files over (Doesn't matter if I drag and drop 1 or 50) Windows explorer crashes. Anyone found a way to fix it from doing this...?
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Found a workaround:
Change Usb settings to PTP
1. Menu>Settings>Storage>Menu>USB Computer Settings
2. Tick Camera(PTP)
3. Transfer to Pictures folder
4. Using a file explorer of your choice on the device, transfer to final destination folder
5. ????
6. PROFIT!!!1!
I've successfully streamed mkv files to my N7 with Dropbox and using a local server and ES File Explorer. Haven't yet needed to transfer onto the limited flash of the N7 but I am sure that will happen for my next business trip so I will try it tonight to see if I have any issues with large files and smaller files.
I can't get mine to transfer. Even tried the picture folder trick. Of course I have the .wmv digital copies of movies I'd like to transfer. Going to try and convert them to mkv at least.
Aside from dropbox, would google drive work as well for streaming?
Very odd. I get a prompt saying my device might not be able to play the file but do I want to copy anyway. I just click the "do this for all" and say yes. You on Win 7?
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ExploreMN said:
Very odd. I get a prompt saying my device might not be able to play the file but do I want to copy anyway. I just click the "do this for all" and say yes. You on Win 7?
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I have both the Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 7 and have the same problem from my Windows 7 Home machine, but at work my Windows 7 Premium machine copies MKV files without a problem - on my home machine it crashes Windows Explorer every time...
There are several ways I've found to copy the files without converting them to MP4/AVI files first:
Dropbox, Google Drive, AirDroid - all of them treat the file as a "captured video", but at least AirDroid doesn't NEED Internet access, while the other 2 do
I'm not sure if it's a driver problem within Windows, but if I find any further methods I'll post here...
Astraea908 said:
Yeah...I tried to transfer my MKV files to my nexus 7 which is 100% stock and every time I drag and drop the MKV files over (Doesn't matter if I drag and drop 1 or 50) Windows explorer crashes. Anyone found a way to fix it from doing this...?
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Do your PC has Dixv Plus codec installed? If so, uninstall it will fix the problem.
There is another thing that cause window explore crash, some of the mkv files don't have header compression removed when muxing.
Using Windows 7 Home Premium x64 on a laptop, no problems copying MKV files to a rooted Nexus 7 16GB running JB via USB. Even used ES File Explorer to copy, wirelessly, an MKV video file from the laptop to the Nexus 7. The video file (created with Handbrake from a ripped DVD) was 1.05GB. Screen captures of both the copying from Windows 7 and the file shown on the Nexus 7 attached.
rlreddy said:
I've successfully streamed mkv files to my N7 with Dropbox and using a local server and ES File Explorer. Haven't yet needed to transfer onto the limited flash of the N7 but I am sure that will happen for my next business trip so I will try it tonight to see if I have any issues with large files and smaller files.
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I was trying to do something like this. I tested out Google Drive and Dropbox, but both seemed to have issues, one of which was the file transfer rate. TOOK FOREVER. What video player do you use to watch the mkv files?
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Very odd. I get a prompt saying my device might not be able to play the file but do I want to copy anyway. I just click the "do this for all" and say yes. You on Win 7?
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Mine has a pop up, but there's no "copy anyway" option. Just "cancel" or "ok". Hitting okay just accepts the rejection message, it doesn't keep transfer.
It is Windows Home version though, so like the other post, this may be the issue.
My tablet isn't rooted yet either.
droidnext said:
Do your PC has Dixv Plus codec installed? If so, uninstall it will fix the problem.
There is another thing that cause window explore crash, some of the mkv files don't have header compression removed when muxing.
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Cool , it worked for me like a charm after uninstalling DivX plus. Thanks man )
"Windows explorer has stopped working" it says whenever i try to transfer a large video file from my PC to my SG4 via USB. Tried
- two cables
- two different USB ports
- different files all sizes 1.3-1.8 gb
- card in adapter directly. It works with the adapter. So how do I make it work with the cable? I've transfered plenty of small video files ~100mb without any problems.
Thoughts?
Hmm the fourth thread I read about this says
This is happening to me too, whatever size the mkv file is. What i do is, rename the mkv extension to mo or any ma, then copy paste to sd card, rename it in root explorer back to mkv.
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Is this really the only way!? What a hassle!
Copying used to work just fine until today. From my PC I can see all the files in my phone just fine using the USB, so it's not like it's not being recognized. I've tried multiple cables, turned off my AV, tried different movie formats, I can delete phone files from my PC, I can transfer pictures from my PC to the phone. But it will not transfer MP4, MKV, AVI from my PC.
???
did you enable any settings in developer settings? Also do you have drivers installed? I assume you do but just asking. You'll also want to make sure you have the correct selection here. Make sure use MTP
Completely computer illiterate oldie here so please be patient. Got tablet Black Friday. Following you tube managed to get Playstore using Toolbox V10. Trying now to copy photos and music albums from laptop. Keep getting different scenarios. Currently, when tablet connected to laptop, File Explorer shows C drive and D drive (DVD) plus "Fire". Clicking Fire, page opens saying "This folder is empty". Opening Fire shows Properties - General - Fire - Manufacture -Amazon, Firmware Version 1.0 and serial number. Nothing else. I somehow seemed to be managing some transfers Saturday/yesterday "Fire" had on occasions "internal storage"" option. but when I access photos vis the Amazon Photos app, not all have been transferred. Likewise when I open the Audify Music app I downloaded, only 5 albums appear.
Tablet has USB Transfer turned on. In Storage - Internal Storage, there are 21 music albums and 13 photo albums but I have no idea how to access them from there.
I don't know if this helps but micro SD card is Kingston 32gb class10.
Tearing out what little hair is left - had anyone any advice please?
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Completely computer illiterate oldie here so please be patient. Got tablet Black Friday. Following you tube managed to get Playstore using Toolbox V10. Trying now to copy photos and music albums from laptop. Keep getting different scenarios. Currently, when tablet connected to laptop, File Explorer shows C drive and D drive (DVD) plus "Fire". Clicking Fire, page opens saying "This folder is empty". Opening Fire shows Properties - General - Fire - Manufacture -Amazon, Firmware Version 1.0 and serial number. Nothing else. I somehow seemed to be managing some transfers Saturday/yesterday "Fire" had on occasions "internal storage"" option. but when I access photos vis the Amazon Photos app, not all have been transferred. Likewise when I open the Audify Music app I downloaded, only 5 albums appear.
Tablet has USB Transfer turned on. In Storage - Internal Storage, there are 21 music albums and 13 photo albums but I have no idea how to access them from there.
I don't know if this helps but micro SD card is Kingston 32gb class10.
Tearing out what little hair is left - had anyone any advice please?
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You must have disabled USB debugging in developer settings.
AmznUser444 Dev said:
You must have disabled USB debugging in developer settings.
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Unfortunately I can't go back and see what I was doing at the time I posted but strangely enough I have just this minute finished downloading the music and photos I want. I found it very easy to move by going back to Windows Media Player (which I have ignored for such a long time) on my laptop and syncing to my tablet SD card from there using VLC and Galley apps. Definitely had USB debugging on this time. Thanks for your reply though.