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New to Android - Why can't I play MPG videos?

So I love the EVO, and so far I love Android, except I can't seem to figure out how to play videos on it. Sure I can view Youtube, youporn etc , but I can't seem to find a player that will play simple MPEGs. I have downloaded and tried at least 5 different video/media players from the Market, and none of them will play MPEGs correctly. Some of them will give me sound, but none will give me video. I have tried a couple of different video files that I know work on my desktop.
Am I doing something wrong? I am coming from Windows Mobile with Windows Media Player that played just about anything I threw at it. I can't imagine such a wonderful piece of hardware coupled with what seems to be an awesome OS can't do MPG/AVI.
Note: I am currently rooted+nand+bugless beast 0.3 Although I was having this trouble before I had the custom rom or NAND unlocked.

sterlinron said:
So I love the EVO, and so far I love Android, except I can't seem to figure out how to play videos on it. Sure I can view Youtube, youporn etc , but I can't seem to find a player that will play simple MPEGs. I have downloaded and tried at least 5 different video/media players from the Market, and none of them will play MPEGs correctly. Some of them will give me sound, but none will give me video. I have tried a couple of different video files that I know work on my desktop.
Am I doing something wrong? I am coming from Windows Mobile with Windows Media Player that played just about anything I threw at it. I can't imagine such a wonderful piece of hardware coupled with what seems to be an awesome OS can't do MPG/AVI.
Note: I am currently rooted+nand+bugless beast 0.3 Although I was having this trouble before I had the custom rom or NAND unlocked.
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Curious, have you tried Meridian? I don't really play a lot of videos on my phone, but Meridian has come through on everything so far for me. YMMV

Rock player is the best video player I have ever used on Android. I can play all my divx format movies without conversion and always get 25-30 fps.
The player is in private beta now and should be released soon.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=698451

KCarpenter - yes, I downloaded Meridian last night. Just tried it again, and still no luck. Thanks for the reply.
Danknee - Thanks!

Considering that the Evo has hardware-accelerated H.264 decoding, why bother playing other formats that will destroy your CPU and battery?
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gbm85 said:
Considering that the Evo has hardware-accelerated H.264 decoding, why bother playing other formats that will destroy your CPU and battery?
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It's just that I received an e-mail MPG of my nephew riding his bike without training wheels and would like to see it that's all. Not sure what H.264 decoding is or if it has my nephew riding his bike without training wheels or not. I should go search for that thanks.
I just figure I should be able to view most any file attachment that comes into me these days.

H.264 is the video encoder for MP4's. Basically, if you used a program to convert your videos to MP4 videos, you would be able to play them without a problem. The phone has hardware acceleration for H.264, so it doesn't use as much processor/battery to play vs. other formats that have to be software decoded. Handbrake works good for me, though I can't remember what file types you can put into it.

sterlinron said:
It's just that I received an e-mail MPG of my nephew riding his bike without training wheels and would like to see it that's all. Not sure what H.264 decoding is or if it has my nephew riding his bike without training wheels or not. I should go search for that thanks.
I just figure I should be able to view most any file attachment that comes into me these days.
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The reason why you cannot play those mpg files is simple. Android doesn't support them out of the box. You need to turn to third-party video players which can do it.
Rock Demo Player is one (only one?) such video player.

You can try to use the third-party video player, I read an article is about the top 5 video player apps in Android Market. Maybe it is helpful to you.

Brucew0617 said:
You can try to use the third-party video player, I read an article is about the top 5 video player apps in Android Market. Maybe it is helpful to you.
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This thread is over a year old. I think the OP figured it out.

Thanks for your remind, I hope it can also be useful to other guys.

I use MX Player. I've only had a problem with AVI files that encode the audio with AAC.
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Mobo player so far for me has played anything I asked it to.
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MakeMeFibonacci said:
I use MX Player. I've only had a problem with AVI files that encode the audio with AAC.
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I used Moboplayer most of time, it seems that MX Player also have so much supporter. Maybe I should try it later.

Drm question which confuses me.

Alright friends, I have a few avi's that my dinc throws the drm play sign up on. This only happens on certain roms. Is there something I can do to bypass this. They are legit copies of my movies, just don't want to go through the whole conversion process again. Thanks.....
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Have you tried other players such as rock player? What roms does it work on? Where did you get these movies from/what type of drm is it?
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Thanks for answering, I have come across it on incrom in the past, and now with optimized shift. It standard player this time. Other 3rd party apps have no problem. The videos are from dvd. Converted to avi through dvd decryptor, then through autogk. I didn't even know that avi's contained drm.? It's not killing me, just curious, and figure the big brains here could dummy it down for me a little. (the movie is Zack and MIRI make a porno)
How do I check what kind of drm? It plays, just with the play symbol in the middle of the window. Thanks again....
Edit: does this depend on the DRM protected file apk? Weird how it pops up for me from time to time. Even had it happen when streaming orb. Not to bump this, but please, anyone experience this before.
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Any good apps for playing windows media files?

I cant seem to find one that works from the market and didnt see much in my search in this section. I used to use Arc Media player but that doesnt seem to work anymore. Most of them will play the file but there is no picture, just audio. Other files such as AVI seem to play fine with most of the players I have tried.

ryan2202 said:
I cant seem to find one that works from the market and didnt see much in my search in this section. I used to use Arc Media player but that doesnt seem to work anymore. Most of them will play the file but there is no picture, just audio. Other files such as AVI seem to play fine with most of the players I have tried.
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I use doubletwist player and it plays wma files no problem if its just video your looking for i havent tried it ill try tonight and let you know

ryan2202 said:
I cant seem to find one that works from the market and didnt see much in my search in this section. I used to use Arc Media player but that doesnt seem to work anymore. Most of them will play the file but there is no picture, just audio. Other files such as AVI seem to play fine with most of the players I have tried.
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Use moboplayer. It supports all video codecs.
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You can try moai video player. Its free of the market and plays almost everything. Also FVD video downloader will download videos to your sd card and has a built in video player.

Thanks for the replies I will give them a try

Crap, none of these worked so far.

vinodgajaria said:
Use moboplayer. It supports all video codecs.
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ryan2202 said:
Crap, none of these worked so far.
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I've generally had great luck playing any video format with mobo, including wmv.

I like MX Player. It has hardware decoding capabilities. If that doesn't work it supports multi core software decoding.

Rock Player plays just about anything

There's also a VLC player in alpha mode I think that may play it. Ill post it when I can.
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Winamp and power amp are what I use. Pro versions aren't free though. The Google play version works as well. Not sure if it plays local wma files, but it definitely play wma files from its server.
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Snappz market it will open a world of wonders
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ICS / cm9 video playing

Quick question for you gentlemen regarding video playback. I have some 720p mkv files on my media server and am having issues playing them back on any ics rom. They play perfect on nearly any player on touchwiz and flawless on vplayer in hardware mode on cm7. Anyone have any ideas on what I could do for cm9 to have the same playing capability? I hate touchwiz but the camera and video work flawless on it and seems like it may be the best bet for me atm.

have u tried flashing some of the other kernels?

jdelano said:
have u tried flashing some of the other kernels?
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That won't matter
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As marc said it doesn't matter but yes I have since I like to play with most major roms and kernels released. About to test miui b1 in a bit but I doubt it'll make any difference still I was just hoping a dev had some insight on this.

does cm9 not do hw decoding?
the option is greyed out on mine

on vplayer it allows the option and seems like it tries. mx player not so much. not having much luck with vlc either.

That's weird because they work fine over here on mx player.. did you search mkv video player in the market
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well again ill say I've tried mx player (with codec packs and without(, the latest vlc nightly, and I own the pro version of vplayer. I tried with vplayers old codec packs and its built in. hw displays 0 picture with vplayer and stutters heavily on vplayer. the isn't that it can't play the file, the issue is it doesn't play it as it does on cm7 and tw. these are 720p video files with fast action. and not anime stuff.
vplayer works great on cm7 but doesn't play in hw mode on cm9. the stock video player on tw works best, but vplayer also works on tw pretty well too. mx is lame sauce.

i get a no picture on vplayer also
the video im using doesnt have any weird encoding options either; its just a video i downloaded off of youtube, so pretty standard
is this just a bug with cm9? maybe it needs to be reported. i dont see anyone mention it in the tracker

[Q] mp4 support differences?

I have several different mp4 files on my GS3. When I run the stock OS I can play all of them without problems. When I use the Nightly CM10 image, however, several of the files won't play, giving me a generic "this format is unsupported" error. One plays but with no sound. Should I expect different mp4 support between the two versions, or would this be a problem with CM10?

That's because of the additional codecs Samsung has baked into TouchWiz. You can try using a third party player like MX player.
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rakeshchn said:
That's because of the additional codecs Samsung has baked into TouchWiz. You can try using a third party player like MX player.
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Thanks, that's what I needed. VPlayer and VLC play them fine as well, I just wanted to make sure I didn't need to submit a bug to Cyanogenmod.