Hi, I'm not very tech savy with my TP2 phone and was just wondering about watching videos on it. I've tried putting videos on my phone that I've downloaded from my PC and nothing ever works through the media player. Always get an error or a message saying can't play this type of format.
I've also tried RAR movie files and those are also a no go. Is there anyway media player that I can download that plays rar files? Is there anyway to watch these on my phone?
Thanks
One player on WM plays most of the codes. Core Player. It is a commercial product. It's well worth the cost.
You cant play rar files, instead the rarfile contains the video so you will have to unpack it with either winrar or 7-zip.
Rezz said:
You cant play rar files, instead the rarfile contains the video so you will have to unpack it with either winrar or 7-zip.
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okay thanks. This winrar, do I download it to me pc or phone? Probably the pc right and unpack the rar files on there and then load them on my phone?
Now once I've unpacked them will any player play them of just the core player?
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okay thanks. This winrar, do I download it to me pc or phone? Probably the pc right and unpack the rar files on there and then load them on my phone?
Now once I've unpacked them will any player play them of just the core player?
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Yes, extract the contents of your RAR file on your PC to your phone. What player will play your file will depend on your file's format or codec. Coreplayer will play just about any kind of video file though.
One of the key features i loved with Windows Mobile was i could manage files and download files from the web with ease. i could download pictures, mp3's, zip folders, rar folders and extract the files all on the phone without being dependent on a computer.
Now i recently had a chance to try to download a mp3 file that i uploading on a hosting site and when i clicked download the mp3 i was trying to download began playing in the browser but i could not locate it on the device. What happens when u try to download pictures, mp3s , zip and rar files on wp7? i know theres no file manager but u are able to save pictures from what ive read so why cant we save mp3s and add it to the zune library on the phone? what happens with the zip and rar files? and if u are able to download zip and rar then maybe we can get some kind of pocketrar or something
is it any chance of a limited file explorer being made that just gives u access to files downloaded from the web without giving access to the phones files and registry settings that they dont want us tampering with?
this is a huge issue along with the usb mass storage mode and multitasking that i really hope they add support for in the future
Lol, I posted the same thing a week ago. So far all I found is you can save pictures to your phone. MP3's download and start to play in Zune, but they aren't saved. Same thing for videos I tried to download. Tried to download a zipped mixtape. No Go!
i hope they address this some kind of way because i do this 90% of the time now on my touch pro 2
it will unzip standard zip files but I don't know about the rest of the compressed files.
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it will unzip standard zip files but I don't know about the rest of the compressed files.
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so u saying i can download a zip folder of mp3s and that will work? where will the files go will they add to ur library
how to download file in WP7? where do those files go? WP7 does not have file explorer, do those files would go to nowhere, no way to view them.
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so u saying i can download a zip folder of mp3s and that will work? where will the files go will they add to ur library
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Didn't work for me. Matter of fact it said WP7 doesn't support zip files when I tried to dl a mixtape.
when install app from marketplace, where did those downloads go? are those save to phone at installation, cabs or xap. what happended to the files?
also, if I download files, music, pictures, videos, pdf, where would they go? how to download them to pc?
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when install app from marketplace, where did those downloads go? are those save to phone at installation, cabs or xap. what happended to the files?
also, if I download files, music, pictures, videos, pdf, where would they go? how to download them to pc?
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Like I said when I dl music, The Zune player opens up and plays the song. Video same thing. It opens the file just like on your computer when you select open instead of save. That's it. I was able to save pictures. They go with the other pictures on my phone. PDF go in Adobe Reader, but the must delete after you read them unless you save them(?). I get them everyday and read but I've never deleted them but they are gone.
internet exploere does have any featue to download files, even picture.
suppose it is possible to download files, where would the files go? how to find them.
citrix80 said:
internet exploere does have any featue to download files, even picture.
suppose it is possible to download files, where would the files go? how to find them.
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If you select a picture on a webpage, you hold down on it and the save option comes up. That's all I've found. You keep asking. Everything I've tried doesn't download. IE buffers it then plays it. Like Netflix does! You watch a movie but it's not on your phone or computer.
Yea that was a killer for me that's why I use my mytouch 4g now and because the brower is so slow
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played with this further. After downloading zip of 2 songs, it did unzip them and allowed them to be played, but it would not save them to the phone as far as I could tell.
I just tried a pdf, it downloade and open in adobe reader, but it is never saved to phone.
this is a big problem for WP7. cannot load files to phone except music and videos.
how to take out the files in word and one note mobile? i save some files and could not take them out.
As for pdfs and pictures its not true.
Those two can be saved and opened in the pictures hub and the adobe pdf app.
I don't think its a huge problem but I would also like it to be "fixed". Maybe Microsoft want to prevent that users are buying music at amazon or other stores than zune?
Edit: And for getting office stuff or pdfs out of the phone: you can email it to you... (not the best solution i know)
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As for pdfs and pictures its not true.
Those two can be saved and opened in the pictures hub and the adobe pdf app.
I don't think its a huge problem but I would also like it to be "fixed". Maybe Microsoft want to prevent that users are buying music at amazon or other stores than zune?
Edit: And for getting office stuff or pdfs out of the phone: you can email it to you... (not the best solution i know)
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is it impossible to make a file explorer app for the marketplace that only gives u access to storage space on the memory card and not to the phones file system? that way you can manage files through the alotted space on the memory card adding songs to zune and pdf files zip folders and other kinds of files? that way saving files would be no problem and ur not screwing with the phones file system would microsoft go for a app like this?
pdf save in picture hub? i dont see it anywhere. you cant even email it to yourself if you cant find the file.
it is not saved it the file system. I tried to put the phone into usb mode, just see what files in pictures, and music folder. pdf is not there.
Guys,
Pdf is AUTOMATICALLY saved to the phone once opened from email or website.
You just need AdobeReader and files can be browsed and deleted from the app.
I'm using root file explorer to connect to my Samba shared NAS (goflex home).
If I copy a .mkv file to my local sdcard, when I click the file (in file expert) it gives me the popup of what program I want to open the video file in. I click mxplayer, it plays just fine.
But if I connect via SMB to my NAS, when I click the same .mkv file, it won't let me pick a video player; instead it says it can't find a default program for this type of file, do I want it to search for one or no thanks. Search for one fails, and no thank just returns me to the File Expert screen. If I want to take the time (and SPACE) I can copy that same mkv file to my sdcard and play it.
So, my question is, how do I get file Expert to give me the video player prompt when connecting via SMB?
As a side not I've tried ES File Explorer in Lan Mode and always get Login Failure connecting to the goflex_home NAS (even though I've triple checked the login credentials and am using the same as in File Expoer).
I've also tried Avia to use DLNA and it sometime works but it doesn't show my Samba shares, it shows my DLNA shares and for some reason doesn't show all of them, including the files I want to play (and yes I shared them already with the Goflex Home config panel.
tl;dr -- how do I tell file expert to use mxplayer when browsing SMB shares, instead of the popup asking to find a program to handle the file?
Edit: Made some progress; tweaked the ES File Expert connection settings to connect to the root of my share and can connect and it gives me the choice of what file player to use -- though it seems to fail streaming. the same file I can play fine from sdcard chokes and is unplayable over streaming.
Alternately, does anyone have a better solution for this problem entirely?
Edit2: Sorry a but more info. When the mkv file is on my sdcard and I click it, I get the same error popup. If I hold down on the file fore afew seconds, I can click "Open As" then "Video" then pick my player. But in SMB exploring, holding down doesn't have an "Open as" option in the menu.
i second this question... same here with samba!!!
anybody knows?
It gives me option to select the player.
I have a modded CM10/SGT7 Linaro Kindle Fire. I tried copying a large movie file (mp4 format) that is roughly around 1.08GB and the Kindle Fire times out at around 20% remaining on the file to be copied. It just hangs .. I have to remove the USB cable and hard reboot the device. Is this a know issue with big files? Is there any way to get around this?
Thanks!
read post 12 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1979998&page=2
Used AirDroid
Tried using the MTP method and the file writing to the Kindle Fire still times out. The only way I could get this working is transferring the file through WiFi using AirDroid. BTW the file I was transferring was a 1.4GB movie file in mp4 format.
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Tried using the MTP method and the file writing to the Kindle Fire still times out. The only way I could get this working is transferring the file through WiFi using AirDroid. BTW the file I was transferring was a 1.4GB movie file in mp4 format.
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I wonder if you compress the video file before sending it over the USB cable to the Kindle will make it work? I saw an example where they took a 167mb MP4 and compressed it to 35mb for a faster upload.
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fljoe said:
Tried using the MTP method and the file writing to the Kindle Fire still times out. The only way I could get this working is transferring the file through WiFi using AirDroid. BTW the file I was transferring was a 1.4GB movie file in mp4 format.
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Boot into recovery, mount usb storage and then transfer the file.
That works
Wow .. never thought about that. It works great!
Thanks! :good:
Hey Guys,
I have a problem with my desktop that when I attempt to transfer any .mkv file to my 32gb wifi nexus 7(2013) via USB, file explorer crashes and resets. This happens on both large and small files and only with .mkv files. I am able to zip the file and then transfer to the tablet, but this requires a lot more time and additional steps that I would rather not have to do every time. Does anyone have any solution to make the direct transfer from Windows 8 to the Nexus 7 work?
Note: I have searched Google for any solutions, but it seems the general solution is removing DivX from the desktop- which I do not have installed.
Thanks in advance!
Found the solution to my problem and am posting just in case it can help anyone in a similar instance in the future. Though I did not have DivX installed, I did have shark007's codecs installed on my desktop and this was causing the problem. I found a solution from androidcentral (Sorry I cant submit a link to the forum, my account here is new):
"Howdy again, If you are using the Shark 007 Codec Pack in Win7 x64, open the Settings Application x64 file (Run as Administrator) and go to the MKV Tab, then Tick the Disable the DivX Media Foundation splitter. The DivX MF splitter will do the thumbnailing when enabled box and this will allow you to copy and paste or send to the Nexus. Tested and working well. Hope this also helps!"
Hope this helps!
Great to know! I've had Explorer crashes before, but only with certain AVIs (usually but not always greater than 4 gigs), and I have neither the Shark 007 Codec Pack nor Win7 x64. The general problem is that Windows is trying to make a thumbnail or otherwise grab info from the file, to where I couldn't move or delete the file outside of Safe Mode.