Hi.
I've recently got the Tab 3 and love it. Only problem at the moment is MP4 playback. I have MP4 files that plays on my PC (VLC) and plays on my S4 (VLC) but it does not play on my Tab (also VLC)... I've tried about 8 movie players and all have the same problem. All my other MP4 files work on all my devices.
Out of ideas.
I have been using mobo player by mobo team for a long time. So far I think I've run into one file extention that did not play right away, and all I had to do is add the extention type to the player through it's options and viola it played. I even play my audiobooks through it as it saves position on exit and allows screen off while continuing to play. Good luck.
AEVAREX said:
I have been using mobo player by mobo team for a long time. So far I think I've run into one file extention that did not play right away, and all I had to do is add the extention type to the player through it's options and viola it played. I even play my audiobooks through it as it saves position on exit and allows screen off while continuing to play. Good luck.
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I'll give that a quick go, thanks.
Nope - still not playing those files
Solved!
It's my sd card that corrupts the files... Just transfered the same files to the internal storage and it plays just fine. Weird that only some files gets corrupted
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What is the best music player on the Desire ?
Something that ideally supports mp3, m3u, flac, wmp, wav ogg
Stock supports MP3 and WAV. Flac is supported if you root and install CyanogenMod. I haven't found any player capable of playing M3U, WMP or OGG yet.
I'm pretty sure MortPlayer plays .ogg (brilliant music player BTW) - I could be wrong though...
If installing CyanogenMod allows for flac playback then then pushes me that much closer towards rooting my device - just need the courage as I've heard one or two stories of people bricking their phones. I wouldn't consider myself that much of a noob with these things but I hope someone can come up with a noobs guide to rooting your Desire...
TuneWiki is the best, has more than just music playback!
abc27 said:
Stock supports MP3 and WAV. Flac is supported if you root and install CyanogenMod. I haven't found any player capable of playing M3U, WMP or OGG yet.
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Ahem... The built-in player supports playing OGG files...
Thanks for the tips. I prefer MortPlayer which can play my files even if they are not perfectly rendered ID3 tags and have no album cover.
One thing that annoys me about most of the newest phone on the market is that it requires you to create a playlist of some sort.
Back in the days when most players would work just by simply playing all the files inside a folder.
gRoberts said:
One thing that annoys me about most of the newest phone on the market is that it requires you to create a playlist of some sort.
Back in the days when most players would work just by simply playing all the files inside a folder.
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Meridian can do that. You can navigate through your sdcard, long press the desired folder and play all (and a few other options)
gRoberts said:
One thing that annoys me about most of the newest phone on the market is that it requires you to create a playlist of some sort.
Back in the days when most players would work just by simply playing all the files inside a folder.
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Not mine it doesn't. Copy and pasted files into a directory and played. Not until a few days later did I set up a few playlists. This was using the stock player but was also playing around with TuneWike and 3 at the same time.
gRoberts said:
One thing that annoys me about most of the newest phone on the market is that it requires you to create a playlist of some sort.
Back in the days when most players would work just by simply playing all the files inside a folder.
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Meridian can do that. You can navigate through your sdcard, long press the desired folder and play all (and a few other options)
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Thats something thats annoyed me too. I just want to play files in my folders, not spend ages making a playlist........ Just downloaded Meridian and its doing what I want. Thanks for the tip off.
I just make sure all the tracks within a folder have the same 'Album' name, that way when you sort by album, they're all grouped correctly.
You can do this in Windows by highlighting all the tracks within a folder, then right click and go to "Properties | Summary | Advanced" and update the 'Album Title' field.
It can be instant, or take a minute or so to update the album name, depending on what type of ID tag it uses.
I've tried a few times to copy a few .mkv files over to my Nexus and it continually crashes my Explorer. Details are:
- Connected via usb.
- Transfer method a simply copy and paste via Windows Explorer.
- Using Windows 7 x64.
- Already transfered .ogg, .avi, .mpg, .mpeg and no problems.
I saw this thread in the "similar threads" that popped up where there is a similar problem with the Xoom. I even tried using DoubleTwist but the newest version requires the device to be attached in mass storage mode. Bummer.
Has anyone had a similar issue? Apart from finding an easy transfer method (I'm currently setting up Songbird to try) I would like to know how transferring a .mkv file would crash Explorer. Please don't waste time saying Windows is crap (or any variant). It's not really that informative!
Any help appreciated.
Songbird doesn't support .mkv.
Google for "mkv windows 7 exlorer crash". It may be related to your installed codecs.
Ive had problems moving just small jpgs to the nexus from w7 64bit along with a few others, think one guy was even on a mac.
ive managed to move a mkv to the phone no probs tho.
when it does lock up while transferring i use wifi and this works fine, just not as easy as drag n drop in windows.
it's most likely the MTP which is blocking non recognized or non allowed extensions
I was able to use WiFi File Explorer to transfer my .mkv files. I'm guessing any similar manner would work as well.
Ditto
Just got my Nexus today. Naturally, the first files I tried to copy were a batch of 3 720p, H.264-encoded Matroska video files (.MKV). Explorer crashed and respawned.
Tried again. Explorer crashed and respawned.
Read this thread and renamed '.mkv' to '.mkv_'. No problems.
It seems already my gut reaction to the lack of a removable card and USB Mass Storage were justified...
(Now to see what codecs this device supports playback of...)
I've been able to put .mkv files in the movies folder just fine.
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its your divx codec, I had to uninstall all my codecs, otherwise it would crash explorer everytime i moved over a mkv video
you can rename the files, but a pure fix is to UNINSTALL DIVX.
after uninstalling it i have no issues with MKVs transferring anymore.
if your worried about that making you unable to play AVIs, go download the shark007 codec package. i have that installed and i can play all videos on my PC and can transfer everything without issues.
Just a quick question... Can galaxy nexus play 720p mkv files by default, or do you have to install an external player? If so, which?
Thanks!
Vocko said:
Just a quick question... Can galaxy nexus play 720p mkv files by default, or do you have to install an external player? If so, which?
Thanks!
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it can't. best player is DICE Player, it's not free, but it's simply the best for MKVs. plays my 720p mkvs perfectly.
ok, i really have the lg optimus L9 from tmobile. but no forum yet for the L9 so here i am. just got the phone and am new to andriod, have ice cream.
just want to play a frickin mp3 and avi files that are on the sd card. if i use file manager and naviagate to avi video, i see a small thumbnail. but when i try to click it i get 'try again after scanning media file'. no idea how to scan media files. navigate to mp3 and click get a choice of google play music or music player. music player gives me again "try again after scanning media files'. now all of a sudden the google media works for my mp3 - no idea why.
guess i am trying to understand how to scan media files. and which program will use the library, google play music or music player. and how can i play video. i am ok with even purchasing a player as i really like to play just about any format without having to convert. what is the player out there that will play the most formats?
thanks
For media searching use the SD Sync app from market. Works well.
where is the best place to go to download apps?
Google Play ofcourse
ok. guess i am trying to figure for now
1) if i copy a media file to my storage card, how can i play it right away, without having to update my whole library. i want to download, point an applicaiton to it an play it.
2) what is the video player that can play the most formats?
1)Open the file with file manager. I prefer the root explorer.
2)LG stock player supports everything, at least no problems even with .mkv packed files.
Oh, you got the L9. Not sure about yours but must be same i think
Also if the file was downloaded from web, you can select/open in directly in the download manager.
Just Figured this out M'Self
OK, just had same issue (same 'system message') trying to watch videos using the built-in Video Player. Maybe it was the first time I used it, but I was actually trying to figure out how to use the new 'Q-Slide' feature to watch a video while doing something else on the phone.
I actually pulled up the manual PDF (downloaded from LG, here), then <CTRL+F> (searched the document for similar system mssgs), and got a 'hit' on Page 49 of the OEM manual (my search, BTW, was 'media files'--'scan for' never found it).
You have to let the system do this for the 'FileShare' app also (I'm sure it's about 'indexing'), so I did, and it worked.
Not so much a 'system error', as a little 'systemic quirk' (much like a cosmic queef)
See attached JPG.
Hello,
I have tried multiple apps that people have suggested using to play x264 format movies such as MX Player, Rock Player, V player (?) and none will play my files. I have tried multiple X264 to be sure that it wasn't just the file. I add the file onto my SD card but when I try to play it on my phone, it brings up a black screen with a play symbol in the upper right corner and the time bar down at the bottom. It acts as if it is playing but gives me no sound or video. I also have noticed that most of the time, say I have a 60 minute show, it will show that it is much longer, sometimes 2 hours or more. I am currently running wicked v 7.0 but have had the same issues when I was on other roms as well. Does anyone have any suggestions of what might be causing this?
Thanks,
Drew
dclifford said:
Hello,
I have tried multiple apps that people have suggested using to play x264 format movies such as MX Player, Rock Player, V player (?) and none will play my files. I have tried multiple X264 to be sure that it wasn't just the file. I add the file onto my SD card but when I try to play it on my phone, it brings up a black screen with a play symbol in the upper right corner and the time bar down at the bottom. It acts as if it is playing but gives me no sound or video. I also have noticed that most of the time, say I have a 60 minute show, it will show that it is much longer, sometimes 2 hours or more. I am currently running wicked v 7.0 but have had the same issues when I was on other roms as well. Does anyone have any suggestions of what might be causing this?
Thanks,
Drew
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MX Player Pro is the best player IMO. I have never come across any issues playing any type of file. However, some files require a codec to be installed. Do you have the MX Player Codec Pack installed?
You try stock video player on twiz? I had the same issue trying to play those files on aosp
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Hi All,
I did a search and can't find an answer.
First off, I'm running stock build JZ054K with stock kernel and modem. I'm rooted and all, just decided to install stock stuff for now. Of course that's 4.1.2.
When I transfer video files to the phone memory or the SD card, I'm having trouble getting them to play back. I've tried MP4, AVI, Wave and have also let the phone convert them as they transfer. The AVI won't play at all, it just says this file won't play. The wave will but has terrible quality. The MP4 is really finicky. Sometimes they will transfer and play part way through, sometimes all the way and sometimes not at all. Could it be the stock video player? I also have MX player but it doesn't seem to do much better. In fact it general does worse.
Should I let the videos convert or should I just transfer them as is. I've even had videos I took with the phone that didn't want to play.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
When transferring files to your phone make sure to not convert... Download (and there are many more apps but my favorites are) MXplayer or DicePlayer and watch the videos through that... Not only are there options within each players settings that allow you to adjust playback options for optimization but then at least you don't have to convert files (a copy of a copy is quite like the original, etc)
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