Had a .wmv video on my pc. Copied to a500 internal sd card. Played it and it played fine. Then took over to my sons to play and it would no longer play with any video players I have. Reboot and the same thing, no pix and mickey mouse audio.
So went to convert .wmv to something else. Every time I convert, the converted file has some text that I can't read in its icon and won't play.
Does this have something to do with drm..?
I wonder why it played once...?
Running latest Honny Vill and 2.5 Kern
shaun298 said:
Had a .wmv video on my pc. Copied to a500 internal sd card. Played it and it played fine. Then took over to my sons to play and it would no longer play with any video players I have. Reboot and the same thing, no pix and mickey mouse audio.
So went to convert .wmv to something else. Every time I convert, the converted file has some text that I can't read in its icon and won't play.
Does this have something to do with drm..?
I wonder why it played once...?
Running latest Honny Vill and 2.5 Kern
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Sounds like Drm to me.
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I'm using joox to download movies and I would like to know how can I download or sync the videos to my phone? Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
Could anybody tell me please how to upload movies to my phone, if it's possible? I never did it with my so I just though I try it. Thanks in advance!
fastest way would put them on your storage card via a card reader and then put the card in the phone.... I have some on mine and they work fine but I do tend to stick with just .avi format
Where do you get your videos from and how do you do it? Thanks!
I've been playing movies on my Titan with TCPMP (the core pocket media player) and everything is playing fine, plays Divx and XVid and everything.
just take your movie file and reencode it in 320x240 with wathever software you want. Personnaly, I always use PocketDivXEncoder, set it to PDA, crank the audio to 6 and an episode of 22 minutes takes around 55Mb
Man...it's frustrating when you're a novice to some things. Could you explain a little further how to download the movies to my computer and then to my phone? Now, I download the movies to a my realplayer library and I'm stuck at that point.
well, I don't know how the Realplayer thingy works, I usualy just download TV Rips (in Divx or Xvid) then reencode them. I guess google is your friend for the rest!
Ok. Thanks for what you told me anyway.
t1mman said:
well, I don't know how the Realplayer thingy works, I usualy just download TV Rips (in Divx or Xvid) then reencode them. I guess google is your friend for the rest!
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When you install Realplayer, it gives you the option to record video and audio streams from flash players, though it saves them in real format. I personally prefer SUPER (thats the name of the program), which downloads and reencodes the videos on the fly. It even has presets for several screen formats. Also, it's freeware, which helps.
Cheers.
I use the program Videora/Red Kawa to convert dvd's to my HD2. The Movie loaded on my phone with no problem and the Video looks great but the audio on the movie is really choppy. Also the raw version of the movie plays fine on i tunes, the audio sounds perfect but on the HD2 its really choppy. The steps I took to transfer the movie are as follows... Put DVD in computer, Run Movie Decryption program, Run Videora/Red Kawa program, It transfered the movie to a file, I copied and pasted movie to memory card by using the USB cable. Like I said everything worked perfect but when I play the movie through the movie player that Transformers is on, it looks great but sounds horrible. I also tried playing the movie through Windows Media Player and the same thing happened, the sound was really choppy. If anyone knows what I can do or what I should have done different, I would really appriciate the feedback. Thanks.
You may be using too higher data rate for the HD2 to be able to process it fast enough (wether thats down to media bandwith or processing abilitys). If you have TCPMP, try the benchmark option and see how fast it runs, if its no faster than normal play, you're likely to need to lower the bitrate of the films.
Try this thread bro
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=668233
I'm a newbie to my Android phone, I am in the Caribbean so I have no access to the market on my phone, i had to trick it to get apps on it at first because it would not see the content of the SD card because i could not download the File Manager.
I noticed I could not play videos so after getting the file manager I decided to download a video player and hoped that would solve the problem, well all it does is play the audio of the movie and my screen remains dark and blank, what am i doing wrong guys? and if its the software that's the problem where can i download a good video player for free that will work?
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I'm a newbie to my Android phone, I am in the Caribbean so I have no access to the market on my phone, i had to trick it to get apps on it at first because it would not see the content of the SD card because i could not download the File Manager.
I noticed I could not play videos so after getting the file manager I decided to download a video player and hoped that would solve the problem, well all it does is play the audio of the movie and my screen remains dark and blank, what am i doing wrong guys? and if its the software that's the problem where can i download a good video player for free that will work?
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I'm guessing you're unrooted, correct?
For the videos (which I assume you're playing off the sdcard) did they ever work? If they didn't it's going to be because they're using a codec your phone doesn't support (probably divx, xvid, although I doubt the avi container would show up in many video apps), so you'll need to convert them or find a player that does support them.
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I'm a newbie to my Android phone, I am in the Caribbean so I have no access to the market on my phone, i had to trick it to get apps on it at first because it would not see the content of the SD card because i could not download the File Manager.
I noticed I could not play videos so after getting the file manager I decided to download a video player and hoped that would solve the problem, well all it does is play the audio of the movie and my screen remains dark and blank, what am i doing wrong guys? and if its the software that's the problem where can i download a good video player for free that will work?
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Can you record video with your camera/camcorder app and then play them back?
If so then you can play video just fine and it's just a codec issue.
If not then it sounds like an app or rom issue.
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Can you record video with your camera/camcorder app and then play them back?
If so then you can play video just fine and it's just a codec issue.
If not then it sounds like an app or rom issue.
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Yes Binary you are indeed correct, it was a codec issue, i can indeed play videos my camera records plus i downloaded an mp4 from online after i posted my complaint here and it played just fine on my MT3G, the problem was i converted the movies to play on my phone with "Allok 3GP PSP MP4 iPod Video Converter" but for some reason it seemed to mess up the mp4 format because it wont play on my phone but it plays back fine on my computeri even redid them in 3GP and my phone still didnt play them, I downloaded another converter and the movies are indeed playing just fine. thanks again for your speedy response
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Yes Binary you are indeed correct, it was a codec issue, i can indeed play videos my camera records plus i downloaded an mp4 from online after i posted my complaint here and it played just fine on my MT3G, the problem was i converted the movies to play on my phone with "Allok 3GP PSP MP4 iPod Video Converter" but for some reason it seemed to mess up the mp4 format because it wont play on my phone but it plays back fine on my computeri even redid them in 3GP and my phone still didnt play them, I downloaded another converter and the movies are indeed playing just fine. thanks again for your speedy response
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No problem and you're welcome.
I'll close the thread for now. If you need it opened again for whatever reason, send me a private message with a link to this thread and I'll open it up again for comments.
Ok so my problem is regarding playing some movies I recently encoded. Movie info is as such:
h.264 MP4
2.8gb size
2000 kps Bitrate
800x480 resolution
29.75 Fps
128 kps audio
The movies I have tried are King Kong and Inception, now these movies have both played fine using WP7 but when I try to load them in Android they fail to play.
Is there a file size limit to what Android can handle processing? Shorter movies (FF7 Advent Children for example) will play just fine when the file size is about 1.5-1.8gb.
I tried the stock video player along with several free options from the market and same story every time.
Hopefully someone can shed some light on this for me
Currently Rom I'm using is in my signature
2.8gb for movie files is too bigger to handled by android sd cache, have u try sd card booster ?
anyway what the encoder program u have used ? a 2.8gb with WVGA resolution kinda waste
Im suggesting 'auto gk ' for best compression
I believe the problem is the SD card file system.
Fat32 cannot support files bigger than 2048MB = 2GB
sorry to throw this into further confusion but i just finished watching sorcerer's apprentice and the mp4 file size is 2.6gb. i alternate between using rockplayer and vital player on my hd2. no problems and the skip / locate works well. example, i wasn't able to finish it on the train yesterday morning. in the afternoon, boarded the train and rockplayer picked it up from the last scene i left it. although....i DID run into an mkv 300mb file which was rather slow and the skip/locate froze up. which is really strange because i've watched other mkv files with no problems. could be the file itself regardless if it's mp4, mkv, avi, etc.
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I believe the problem is the SD card file system.
Fat32 cannot support files bigger than 2048MB = 2GB
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Fat32 is 4gb limit if I remember right from my xbox360 days, if it was 2gb the file wouldn't be on a fat32 drive in the first place, or copy successfully onto a fat32 SD card from say a ntfs drive
download QQ Player from the android market. Thats what solved my problem.
2.8gb for movie files is too bigger to handled by android sd cache, have u try sd card booster ?
anyway what the encoder program u have used ? a 2.8gb with WVGA resolution kinda waste
Im suggesting 'auto gk ' for best compression
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I use iSkysoft media converter, very easy and great quality
Gunblade77 said:
download QQ Player from the android market. Thats what solved my problem.
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I tried that and still nothing
sorry to throw this into further confusion but i just finished watching sorcerer's apprentice and the mp4 file size is 2.6gb. i alternate between using rockplayer and vital player on my hd2. no problems and the skip / locate works well. example, i wasn't able to finish it on the train yesterday morning. in the afternoon, boarded the train and rockplayer picked it up from the last scene i left it. although....i DID run into an mkv 300mb file which was rather slow and the skip/locate froze up. which is really strange because i've watched other mkv files with no problems. could be the file itself regardless if it's mp4, mkv, avi, etc.
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See I wonder what it is that's different that allowed you to play that.
Is there any application that can play VOB files (DVD) files on the A500?
I know that there are conversion programs, such as Handbrake, but the conversion process takes a long time.
Would it be simpler just to copy VOB files (they have to be unprotected first) on to the SD card or USB stick, and then play it.
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Is there any application that can play VOB files (DVD) files on the A500?
I know that there are conversion programs, such as Handbrake, but the conversion process takes a long time.
Would it be simpler just to copy VOB files (they have to be unprotected first) on to the SD card or USB stick, and then play it.
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You can try apps like Rock Player, MoboPlayer, Vital Player(?), and etc. I've never tried playing VOB files and don't remember anyone asking if it'll work. So you can try if you want to, but I'm doubting it'll work without converting it.
Basically, VOB is another form of MPEG-2 PS. So there shouldn't be any problem playing VOB files.
If the VOB files are not recognized, you can try rename them to .MPG.
I don't have VOB now, so I can't test. Give them a try, and please report back.
Success!
Smooth video and good sound quality. Did not need to rename files. Simple copy from PC to A500.
Copied two sets of DVDs, i.e. the VOB Folders (VIDEO_TS) across to the A500 using the USB cable.
1) First DVD was a tennis match with a file size of 3.2GB
Took about 12 minutes to transfer the VIDEO_TS folder
- Rockplayer - played the without any problems
- Moboplayer - ditto
- Vplayer - ditto
But, with all three applications, I could not easily move about in the video, for example by dragging the marker that showed the place in the video. The fast forward button would send the marker to the end of the video.
2) Second DVD was a musical concert with a file size of 5.8GB
Took about 18 minutes to copy the VIDEO_TS folder over to the A500
- Rockplay - got stumped and kept asking me to 'Please choose audio track'. But after a couple of press of the Play button, the video began to play.
- Vplayer - could not get this to play the video.
- Moboplay was the best. It moved all the VOB files to the top of the directory and played the selected file without any problems.
While the file transfer did take a while, it sure beats encoding the video into another format. Hate to think how long it would take to encode the 5.8GB file in (2) above.
Now, if only VLC would bring out their player for Android.
I've been using moboplayer for this. Seems to play everything I throw at it, except for 720p MKVs(which just happen to compose about half my media...)
Same issue here. Have a good sized library of 1080p and 720p mkv's with some HD mp4's that I threw in for S&G's. None of them want to play right at all. I would have figured with the plug-in for A7 that Xoom people were reporting was the right one for Moboplayer, we'd at least have 720p capability, but nope. And I spent the whopping $10 for a micro to std HDMI cable at Fry's so I can use it as movie player at the hotels while I'm getting jet lag week to week.
1280x536 (what's considered 720p) AVI's are the best I can do so far.
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Same issue here. Have a good sized library of 1080p and 720p mkv's with some HD mp4's that I threw in for S&G's. None of them want to play right at all. I would have figured with the plug-in for A7 that Xoom people were reporting was the right one for Moboplayer, we'd at least have 720p capability, but nope. And I spent the whopping $10 for a micro to std HDMI cable at Fry's so I can use it as movie player at the hotels while I'm getting jet lag week to week.
1280x536 (what's considered 720p) AVI's are the best I can do so far.
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536 is a lot closer to 480p if you add in overscan.
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536 is a lot closer to 480p if you add in overscan.
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I'd agree with you, if the some dozen or so files I have claiming 720p didn't fall into something real close to the 1280x536 range. Thinking it could just be the aspect ratio difference between 16:9 and 16:10 that would give us this--only speculating.
Actually I would absolutely love the ability to feed out 1080p out the hdmi port and leave the main display alone. Give us a portable media center device in the process.
That’s exactly the reason why I am still considering getting the SGS II instead of a HC tab.