I am having trouble playing large video files either mkv or mp4. I recently tried watching star wars from my external hard drive and it wouldn't play past a certain point. I had to then use my computer to finish the movie. It also happened with a mission impossible copy. The mission impossible movie would not play past 30-45 mins whereas star wars played to 130-1:45.
The star wars was 3.5 gb and mission impossible was around 8gb. Both play fine on my laptop. What is going on?
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Hi,
I have a problem with my Magic right now, I'm using Villain's Rom 3.2.
While watching movie (a full movie, mp4 format, 1 hour and 36 mins), after 6 or 20 or something minutes, it freeze, I still can go to home or other apps but oh photo gallery to view the video again is impossible. The only way is to reinsert the battery and play the movie again but then again after few minutes the issue still persist.
please help if you know the sollution...
Thanks...
Heya. I've recently copied a lot of 720p .mkv files on my phone to watch while commuting.
It worked flawlessly with the first file I copied. I was able to pause and play it without any harm done.
When I finished watching the video, I deleted it off my microsd and earlier today I copied two more (at the same time) to my phone.
I found that whenever I paused the video, the sound and video became out of sync when I started playing again. There was a 3-4 second delay between what happened on the screen until the sound came. It's very annoying.
Has anyone else had similar problems? I'm using a Sandisk Mobile Ultra (16gb) card, it's class 2 but considering video playback is flawless if I don't pause it, I don't think the class will matter? My transfer rate with the card is about 7mb/s.
I also noticed that when I paused videos there was a split second delay between when the video paused and when the audio was paused. Maybe this contributes to the syncing problems when I play again?
Did this only happen with the last video you copied? Have you tried it with the one you didn't have trouble watching intially? I haven't found any such problems, but perhaps a reboot of the phone might fix it for you unless the problem is with the file itself.
This has happened to both the second and third file to be copied onto the memory card. And yes, I tried to reboot the phone. I also killed all the running apps with advanced task killer.
Well it could be that the phone doesn't like the codec of the files? Try RockPlayer and see if that gives you the same problem. Also try the original file that you didn't have a problem with perhaps?
Hi,
I've only been playing with my phone for a day so apologies if I'm treading old ground.
I've dumped a few DivX movies on the phone and can happily play them using Rockplayer. However, they also appear in Gallery and Sense and if accessed from these apps the whole phone suffers serious performance issues like freezing and extreme slulggishness. It indicates a hung process and the only way to remediate the situation is via a reboot.
The obvious answer would be to not access them vai these apps, but if they're muddled with other videos then it doesn't take much to accidently select one or for someone else playing with my phone to do the same.
Has anyone else experienced this?
Thanks,
Yao
Yao Ng said:
Hi,
I've only been playing with my phone for a day so apologies if I'm treading old ground.
I've dumped a few DivX movies on the phone and can happily play them using Rockplayer. However, they also appear in Gallery and Sense and if accessed from these apps the whole phone suffers serious performance issues like freezing and extreme slulggishness. It indicates a hung process and the only way to remediate the situation is via a reboot.
The obvious answer would be to not access them vai these apps, but if they're muddled with other videos then it doesn't take much to accidently select one or for someone else playing with my phone to do the same.
Has anyone else experienced this?
Thanks,
Yao
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I think it all depends on your bitrate. You can have a divx movie that is completely unplayable because it's such a high bitrate.
For example I bought() a divx movie and put it on the phone, same problem you're having.
I ripped a movie myself and that one played without any problems... (think it was like 512x384, 1000bps which is mooooore than enough on a phone)
but anyway I'm switching to all .mkv movies but I haven't found a decent app to play those (yet)
What is the best player for DiVx?
Is it Rockplayer?
Hi all,
I've had this phone for over 6 months now, my first (and last) samsung device - great phone, but terrible build quality and it seemingly won't perform some of the basics my old Xperia Z used to do. Such as playing any of my music or videos! I've had no problem playing them on countless Sony Ericsson or Xperia phones over the last 15 years, or any apple device. For some reason nothing will play on the standard music or video player on the note 3. I've tried the standard players, along with poweramp, cubed, mx player, vlc player, plus a few more. The music and videos play fine on my laptop too, I've done a transfer via kids, via media go, I've dragged and dropped straight onto the memory card, I've taken the card out of the phone and done the same. I've also tried re ripping one of my dvds, using the special 'samsung' option in case it's an encoding issue.......nothing works at all. I'm at a loss, just wondered if anyone else has hit this issue and how they fixed it?
It's a rooted UK phone, but running the standard samsung rom so nothing very fancy there that could cause a problem I would imagine.....
How do they not play? Do you get an error? Have you tried a factory reset?
The Note 3 line itself isn't at fault, I use mine all day as a music player and 4 hours a day as a videoplayer with everything from avi to mkv. The only issues I've encountered are copyright related, because there are a few codecs that were removed from most players.
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Not posted in a while as I've been largely enjoying the Mojo trouble free. However yesterday I was watching one of my video files using SPMC and it just stopped, sending me back to the video selection screen in SPMC. I'm using a 2Tb WD USB hard drive, on my Mojo is CM 12.1, and SPMC is my usual choice to play files back.
This was an MP4, 1080p at 2.7Gb, and this was a 3 hour movie, which ceased playback at the 2 hour 15 minute mark. I attempted to resume to playback, but it seemed to try and then immediately dumped me back again.
My first thought was it must be a corrupt file, so I tried it on my PC but there were no issues. I go back to the Mojo to try restarting the film from the beginning again, skipping ahead to the troublesome part, but it stopped again at exactly the same moment.
I then tried VLC, and to my surprise I found this was exactly the same. Playback ceased at the same point exactly.
So now I'm worried it's the drive, so I decide to plug it into my Raspberry Pi which is running the latest OSMC, and to my surprise it's fine. Playback is trouble free. Plugging the drive into my PC to play the file reveals it plays fine. It has to be the Mojo, but it must be a global setting or something. I've tried clearing the app cache, but it's made no difference. To be honest I don't really know where to look next. Can anyone help? Thanks all.
tl;dr: File plays fine on PC and Raspberry Pi, stops abruptly on Mojo using SPMC or VLC. Must be a setting somewhere to fix. Help!
Well now here's an interesting discovery to make after several months of ownership! I always was slow on the uptake...
It seems on further inspection that the Mojo/CM 12.1 doesn't like any of my "large" files above 2.5Gb. I have tried some others around that size and larger, and they are all the same. The are slow to use (skipping forward etc.), and then just give up so far into playback. My drive is formatted NTFS, so I don't think that's the issue.
I'm really hoping there's something I can do to fix this.
Aaaand on even further inspection, file size has nothing to do with it. There's a number of files that just won't play very nicely, big or small. They lag when skipping through, and then cease so far into playback.
I'd read that Android wasn't so great with video codecs generally, and this must be what they mean. Can't believe I didn't notice it before.
I had the same issue with videos over 2GB. It is an issue with NTFS. The same files played fine on a FAT32 drive. I have since gone to using a NTFS NAS instead. Works flawlessly with Kodi.
Thanks for replying. I've ended up simply remuxing and replacing those problematic files, which seems to have resolved the issue. It's a pity, but I am finding the Mojo a very fussy and particular system indeed. What a shame, as it is so capable at hardware level.
Tried playing the file with Kodi?
That's usually my fix to those type of situations.
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Tried playing the file with Kodi?
That's usually my fix to those type of situations.
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Sorry for late reply. Yes all the video apps show the same result, which means it must be the system. I've read up a little on this and have discovered other folks with similar issues when using Android for video playback. I'm fine now anyway - like I say, I remuxed these troublesome files and made them smaller but no less qualitative. Some of them were quite big for DVD rips (around 3-4Gb) and did not need to be so. Thank god for Handbrake! It worked out well in the end as my drive was beginning to be pressed for space with so many of these, and I've managed to free up 70Gb just by being a little bit more conservative.