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[Q] Playing Mp4 video files on Samsung Galaxy S

Hi,
I have downloaded a movie in MP4 format and while playing it on my Samsung Galaxy S, i can see the picture but there is no sound coming...
Picture quality for the file is very good no problem in it..only thing is sound is missing.
Is it some problem? Or some settings needs to be changed?
Seniors..plz advise.
Regards,
Anoop.

Remember that media volume is independent of ringer volume, so make sure you turn the media volume up.
I have run into a bug a few times where the sound on an mp4 won't play, but then I just exit the video player and try again and it works.
Otherwise, it may be the sound codec of the mp4 isn't compatible, although that is unlikely as the Galaxy S seems to support every major codec under the sun. Does the sound work on your computer?
I'm also unsure of if the Galaxy S is able to playback 5.1 encoded sound, so perhaps the sound is beyond the Galaxy S's playback capabilities. That would probably only be the case with a huge bitrate however.
Finally, you can always just encode the video into another format using a tool such as the excellent free Handbrake program (for Windows and OSX). Settings that work flawlessly for me are H264 .MP4 at 800 x 480 (the screen resolution of the Galaxy S, can crop videos if needed) with bitrates up to 2000kbps and AAC audio at 128kpbs, 48000hz stereo.

How the f.. a 1ghz Humingbird can beat a 1.6Ghz Intel atom??
I had the same problem with some 720p Mp4 video,
I also tried Rockplayer, but the playback freezes badly,
with the default Galaxy video player HD video is smooth, while on my intel atom netbook, HD is unwatchable..
How the f.. a 1ghz Humingbird can beat a 1.6Ghz Intel atom??

sonci said:
With the default Galaxy video player HD video is smooth, while on my intel atom netbook, HD is unwatchable..
How the f.. a 1ghz Humingbird can beat a 1.6Ghz Intel atom??
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Because the Hummingbird supports GPU hardware accelleration for H.264? ;D
Just grabbed myself a Galaxy S and im in the prosess of flashing official Froyo btw.
Best phone evah! (With lagfix)

Nice update now in Froyo,
I see my MP4 HD movies now have audio,
Well at least they did smth right..

The fact is Samsung can play most of MP4 files. Several special MP4 videos will not be played as MP4 is a container video format which may encode with a variety of codecs like H.264, MPEG-4, Xivd, DivX, MPEG-4 ASP etc. or with subtitles or multi-channels audio tracks. As MPEG-4 AVC H.264 codec, support is limited to the required specifications. If your MP4 files are using audio and video codec that Samsung Galaxy cannot support or your MP4 files cannot meet the supported specifications of audio and video codec, your Samsung Galaxy phones or tablets will fail to play MP4 files. Even you download different Android video player, they still fails to play.
In order to successfully play MP4 on Samsung Galaxy, a better solution is to convert MP4 to Samsung Galaxy supported MPEG-4 Video with require specifications. Google search TechiSky How to Play MP4 on Samsung Galaxy you will find the answer.

Try MX-Player

HW Accelerated Media Player - DicePlayer

Incredible S can play H.264 High profile+DTS/AC3 MKV/AVI files.
You can download from Android market ( search "DicePlayer" ).
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Dice Player is hi-performance media player for android.
Nexus S/Galaxy S2/Gingerbread Galaxy S can play 720p MKV/AVI ( H.264 High Profile+AC3/DTS Audio ) files.
Spec.
* Supported file format : AVI , MP4 , AVI
* Supported Video Codec : MPEG-4 ASP / H.264
* Supported Audio Codec : MP3/AAC/AC3/DTS
* Supported Subtitle format : SMI / SRT
* Apple Http live streaming ( beta )
Tested Devices
1. Samsung Galaxy S variants : Gingerbread required
-> 720p play well.
2. Samsung Galaxy S2
-> can play 1080p
3. Moto Atrix
-> can not play H.264 High profile clips.
4. Desire HD : Froyo tested
-> H.264 High Profile level 3.1 can play well.
5. Samsung Nexus-S
-> 720p play well.
6. HTC Incredible S
-> 720p OK. H.264 High profile level 4/5 is not supported
7. Samsung Galaxy Tab
-> 720p OK / Partial 1080p support.
Limitations
1. S5PC11x Chipset can play 720p(h.264 high profile)
2. Tegra 2 based phone can not play H.264 high profile clip.
3. Froyo Galaxy S/Tab can not play movie. Gingerbread is required.
4. 2nd gen. Snapdragon can not play H.264 High profile level 4.0/5.0 clip.

good recommendation, tq......

Im gonna try it out
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No .mov support?

rename mov to mp4

juami said:
rename mov to mp4
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Didn't work for me...

I don't get very good performance with this player when streaming from a network drive. Personally I prefer VPlayer (search on the market)

My Samsung Galaxy s2 Stock Media Player dosent play ac3 Audi files or Mp4 FIles with Ac3 audio decoded. I was able to play those using Dice player or rockplayer.
The official Samsung Site or other specification says this (This is from Wikipedia)
For audio it supports (FLAC, WAV, Vorbis, MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, MID, AC3, XMF). For video formats and codecs it supports (MPEG-4, H.264, H.263, DivX HD/XviD, VC-1) and video formats (3GP (MPEG-4), WMV (ASF) as well as AVI (DivX)).
Issues:
1. Stock Media Player dosent play ac3 Audi files or Mp4 FIles with Ac3 audio decoded (Stock Media Player gives the Option 5.1 to be enabled but ac3 not playing)
2. Other players play it Under software decoding, But main Problem is 5.1 isn't working with Head phones
I googled and found some Users were able to Play it with stock media Players. Read something like "I dont have any problem playing those files, I just copy and play them"

Qqplayer is free and plays almost everything. works perfect for me.

veitograf said:
Qqplayer is free and plays almost everything. works perfect for me.
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QQ is free. but drains battery much faster..

Cheers. Great player
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Great app but it's no longer available on the market
Anyone know why the full version is now available and how to install the app having paid for it when it was available?
Free version shows
*** Currently can not purchase the full version because the checkout account is suspended.
This is the only video player I found that could playback 720p mkv through dnla on my Samsung Galaxy S. Here's my setup.
Samsung Galaxy S / Skifta / Diceplayer (Full purchased off the market in Nov 2011)
Server running Serviio dnla server
1080p stutters but I think that is down to the single core in the Galxy S. 720p smooooth.
I paid £3.35 in Nov for the full version of Diceplayer from the market but I now need to reistall since changing rom but can't download from the market?
I didn't backup my apps with titanium before doing the upgrade or I could restore app only.
Any ideas?
I have emailed the developer with my receipt but have received no reply.
cheers

for me RockPlayer Lite is the best deal out there. plays most of the formats.
no problems till now

[Q] divx/avi player for incredible s?

can anyoen recommend an avi/divx player for incredible s? Or is there an easy to use program to convert to whatever format android likes?

video player
sdxda said:
can anyoen recommend an avi/divx player for incredible s? Or is there an easy to use program to convert to whatever format android likes?
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yes i find Mobo player is by the far and the best and is still being updated
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.clov4r.android.nil&hl=en
just download it and install it
im only getting 20fps on hd files tho but probably just because its bit rate is 6000 and i only have a class 2 card
but anything sd plays perfectly especially for all your 700mb back ups

+1 for mobo player, it's great!
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Diceplayer
try diceplayer.
diceplayer can use hw video decoder for mkv,m2ts,avi,mov....
it use less battery than sw decoding player ( mobo / rock / vPlayer / QQ )
diceplayer can play 720p H.264 High + DTS/Flac/OGG/AC3
(H.264 profile are depending on HW decoder .. ) and have better video quality.

Diceplayer doesn't work well on my incredible s using virtuous unity 1.27. Crash when trying to open settings.
+1 for mobo player

QQPlayer and vPlayer both worked perfect for me even with HD files with the SD card I received in the package.

humm
juami said:
try diceplayer.
diceplayer can use hw video decoder for mkv,m2ts,avi,mov....
it use less battery than sw decoding player ( mobo / rock / vPlayer / QQ )
diceplayer can play 720p H.264 High + DTS/Flac/OGG/AC3
(H.264 profile are depending on HW decoder .. ) and have better video quality.
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Mobo player actrually has hard ware decoding for many different SoC's
has hardware support for
ARM V5te
ARM V5te_VFP
ARM V6
ARM V6_VFP
ARM V7_VFP
ARM V7_VFPV3
ARM V7_NEON
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Just a FYI

I prefer Rockplayer, I think it's the best player for android .

jul644 said:
Mobo player actrually has hard ware decoding for many different SoC's
has hardware support for
Just a FYI
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Mobo player use ARM's VFP/NEON instructions.
it is not HW video decoder. it is SIMD instructions like MMX,SSE.
HW video decoder is not ARM core.
Diceplayer use SoC's Video decoder and HW renderer like a Stock player.
but Diceplayer can handle many formats(MKV/AVI/MTS/MOV) and audio codecs (DTS/AC3/FLAC/OGG).

no for the IS
juami said:
Mobo player use ARM's VFP/NEON instructions.
it is not HW video decoder. it is SIMD instructions like MMX,SSE.
HW video decoder is not ARM core.
Diceplayer use SoC's Video decoder and HW renderer like a Stock player.
but Diceplayer can handle many formats(MKV/AVI/MTS/MOV) and audio codecs (DTS/AC3/FLAC/OGG).
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Dice Player is hi-performance media player for android.
HTC Sensation/Nexus S/Galaxy S2/Gingerbread Galaxy S can play 720p MKV/AVI ( H.264 High Profile+AC3/DTS/FLAC Audio ) files.
Spec.
* Supported file format : AVI , MP4 , AVI ,MOV , MTS , TS
* Supported Video Codec : MPEG-4 ASP / H.264
* Supported Audio Codec : MP3/AAC/AC3/DTS/FLAC/VORBIS
* Supported Subtitle format : SMI / SRT / ASS
* Apple Http live streaming ( beta )
* SW based format : FLV , rmvb
Tested Devices
1. Samsung Galaxy S variants : Gingerbread required
-> 720p play well.
2. Samsung Galaxy S2
-> can play 1080p
3. Desire HD
-> H.264 High Profile level 3.1 can play well.
4. Samsung Nexus-S
-> 720p play well.
5. Samsung Galaxy Player (YP-GB1)
-> 720p OK , some 1080p works well
6. HTC Sensation
-> 720p OK , 1080p with some lag.
7. Xperia Arc,Play,Arco
-> 720p Supported.
8. Toshiba TG-03
-> 720p High 3.1 / may need libOmxVdec.so patch
9. Dell Streak,Venue,Nexus-1
-> 720p High 3.1 / need libOmxVdec.so patch
10. Moto Defy need Gingerbread.
Limitations
1. S5PC11x Chipset can play 720p(h.264 high profile)
2. Tegra 2 based phone can not play H.264 high profile clip.
3. Froyo Galaxy S/Tab can not play movie. Gingerbread is required.
4. 2nd gen. Snapdragon can not play H.264 High profile level 4.0/5.0 clip.
- Depending on the device will not work, so be sure to test Trial version and buy this version, please do.
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while this is true for some devices no the Incredible S

[Q] How to play most HD videos (720p/1080) Galaxy tab?

Hi,
I am trying to find out following:
I would like to use Galaxy Tab 8.9 (7300/stock HoneyComb 3.1) to play video on my HDTV (Full HD via HDMI adapter). However almost all the apps that I have tested seem to produce dropped frames or problems with sync with audio/video during playback for number of mkv/mp4/avi media files I have tested. I was able to play normally some of the full HD videos but that was in only few cases while most of 720p/1080p would have poor playback. So I am looking for an advice:
1) Will updating to ICS (now only custom roms available) help with video playback?
2) Are there any apps that you found that can play most of full hd videos? I have tried almost all the popular ones but could not get to cover full HD?
3) Will overclocking help with decoding? I saw several posts that indicate that some custom roms support overclocking. In some cases I got SW based playback to give almost good playback (HW based decoding did not work in all cases).
4) What is proper approach for mounting external drives that are in formats such as NTFS/exFAT? I am looking at this as some files might be bigger then 4GB limit of FAT32.
5) Is there a device that I can stream to 1080p from Galaxy Tab 8.9? Of course assuming that Galaxy Tab 8.9 can stream 1080p...
6) Do you have any other advice?
7) There are number of custom ROMs available (as listed in http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1441). Which one would you recommend for best video performance?
Kind regards,
Bo

Just got a Tab 8.9 and really struggling with this as well so keen to hear responses.

1) Will updating to ICS (now only custom roms available) help with video playback?
The GTab8.9 is Tegra 2 powered and will always struggle with HD playback, regardless of ROM or player. Good video player apps, I like MXPlayer, can mitigate it a little.
2) Are there any apps that you found that can play most of full hd videos? I have tried almost all the popular ones but could not get to cover full HD?
I like MX Player, but Vplayer is solid, but costs money. You will not find one that can play all 720p videos smoothly, and forget about an 1080p videos. Unless the bitrate is so low as to basically be low def, it won't happen.
3) Will overclocking help with decoding? I saw several posts that indicate that some custom roms support overclocking. In some cases I got SW based playback to give almost good playback (HW based decoding did not work in all cases).
Maybe a little, not worth it IMO.
4) What is proper approach for mounting external drives that are in formats such as NTFS/exFAT? I am looking at this as some files might be bigger then 4GB limit of FAT32.
I'm not sure on this, I will defer to others.
5) Is there a device that I can stream to 1080p from Galaxy Tab 8.9? Of course assuming that Galaxy Tab 8.9 can stream 1080p...
The GTab8.9 will struggle to play most 720p, forget about any 1080p.
6) Do you have any other advice?
I like the GTab 8.9 for its size, but a media power house it is not. If you want to play all manner of HD videos, then you're going to need a tablet with a Tegra 3 or better. Perhaps the upcoming Kindle Fire HD 8.9 or Nook+ HD 9, with their OMAP4470/SGX544s, will handle better and keep the smaller size.
7) There are number of custom ROMs available (as listed in http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1441). Which one would you recommend for best video performance?
I have not tried any custom roms myself yet. The video playback is a hardware limitation and a known weak point of the Tegra 2 SoC. Roms and players can attempt to mitigate it, but its not possible to resolve it.

Try vlc
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UnwiredDroid said:
Try vlc
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For some reason VLC is not compatible with the device...

I've got my NTFS flash stick running perfectly... with USM mass storage watcher...

Flash rom with ics by tracid..no problem with 720p playback even with stock video player :good:

hwooei said:
Flash rom with ics by tracid..no problem with 720p playback even with stock video player :good:
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Did you have problems with 720p with HoneyComb before? How much did it improve your performance?

Bo... said:
Did you have problems with 720p with HoneyComb before? How much did it improve your performance?
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Hc laggy on 720p playback..with ics rom no laggy wih 720p playback even with stock video player..or try bsplay**..support hardware acceleration..

hwooei said:
Hc laggy on 720p playback..with ics rom no laggy wih 720p playback even with stock video player..or try bsplay**..support hardware acceleration..
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The BS player gave me the best playback but not always smooth on 720p. Thanks for the info.... Great news....

2) In MX Player, turn on H/W+ mode in Settings>Decoding. This plays back 720p video (with a tiny audio lag) on stock Honeycomb 3.2. It's not going to do much to help you with 1080p though -- it's probable that nothing will.

you can run 720p or 1080p fluid.. spawndk from the eepad transformer forum:
"The Tegra2 chipset are designed as a mobile sollution chipset - to support web 2 standards. The highest encoding profile used here (Youtube 1080p) are 1080p baseline and this the Tegra2 chipset will both record and play with no troubles. As well as 720p baseline and main profile - but only upto L3.1 with some limitations. It doesnt matter which container is used (mkv, mp4, m4v, avi etc) and it doesnt matter if resolution are 1080p - its only a matter of the encoding profile used to encode the supported video format H264
Tegra2 will NEVER be able to decode High profile L4.1 encodes - it's not a software issue, neither in terms of Honeycomb or Nvidia libs, its simply a limitation of the abilities of the hardwaredecoder in the Tegra2 chipset and this will never change. It is also not a limitation in the Transformer specifically, but a limitation in ALL Tegra2 based tablets and mobilephones.
This is the same reason why some mediaplayers like the Boxee Box that was originally intended to use the Tegra2 moved on to an Intel chipset before launch.
In short the Tegra2 chipset will support playback of videos encoded in 1080p or 720p resolution, using the H264 video codec and AAC audio codec - as long as the video are encoded after the baseline profile standard
It will not now or ever - play 1080p/720p encodes encoded after the high profile standard."
So basically, you have to reencode videos just like on ipad..

[Q] New update -> MKV support ?

Hello everyone,
I'm new here, I don't know nothing about what you are all talking about here ^^ BUT a friend told me that the new update allow the O2X to play MKV files > Is that true ? He told me trough an email.
I happy with the version I have right now and if it supports mkv with the new update, I will definitely install it.
Thanks for reading me.

I think we could always do it with certain programmes because the mobile can process it. But according to wikipedia, 4.0 reproduces mkv natively so yes, it should.

ads88 said:
I think we could always do it with certain programmes because the mobile can process it. But according to wikipedia, 4.0 reproduces mkv natively so yes, it should.
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can you provide me the link please :victory:

dawizard11 said:
Hello everyone,
I'm new here, I don't know nothing about what you are all talking about here ^^ BUT a friend told me that the new update allow the O2X to play MKV files > Is that true ? He told me trough an email.
I happy with the version I have right now and if it supports mkv with the new update, I will definitely install it.
Thanks for reading me.
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Hi friend,
Yes the latest V30a ICS update allows MKV format to play on native video player app.Also flv video format is also supported by the native video player.Checked on my O2x.Just that 1080pi full HD videos are not supported yet.So have fun watching vids or movies without the inconvenience of converting

arvindlakra21 said:
Hi friend,
Yes the latest V30a ICS update allows MKV format to play on native video player app.Also flv video format is also supported by the native video player.Checked on my O2x.Just that 1080pi full HD videos are not supported yet.So have fun watching vids or movies without the inconvenience of converting
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Thanks I will definitely update ! Mkv + hdmi on the O2X make it a good device.
:good: for the flv, my friend didn't know that

The O2X has been able to play MKV's since Gingerbread...but only to a low profile level. MKV's downloaded (tv shows etc) are all 720p HIGH Profile and the phone could not support that as the Tegra chip couldnt handle the HIGH profile.
Are you saying that our phones can now play 720p HIGH profile MKV's...because, if it can, I may actually update!

ruggs1234 said:
The O2X has been able to play MKV's since Gingerbread...but only to a low profile level. MKV's downloaded (tv shows etc) are all 720p HIGH Profile and the phone could not support that as the Tegra chip couldnt handle the HIGH profile.
Are you saying that our phones can now play 720p HIGH profile MKV's...because, if it can, I may actually update!
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i try using mxplayer, with 720p High profile @L4.1 still the video lags and not smooth using s/w decoder. i think with handheld, it can't play mkv with high profile. only use low profile and it's playback smoothly

Thanks to Ncyde47 on another thread here...a much better explanation....
You can run 720p or 1080p fluid.. spawndk from the eepad transformer forum:
"The Tegra2 chipset are designed as a mobile sollution chipset - to support web 2 standards. The highest encoding profile used here (Youtube 1080p) are 1080p baseline and this the Tegra2 chipset will both record and play with no troubles. As well as 720p baseline and main profile - but only upto L3.1 with some limitations. It doesnt matter which container is used (mkv, mp4, m4v, avi etc) and it doesnt matter if resolution are 1080p - its only a matter of the encoding profile used to encode the supported video format H264
Tegra2 will NEVER be able to decode High profile L4.1 encodes - it's not a software issue, neither in terms of Honeycomb or Nvidia libs, its simply a limitation of the abilities of the hardwaredecoder in the Tegra2 chipset and this will never change. It is also not a limitation in the Transformer specifically, but a limitation in ALL Tegra2 based tablets and mobilephones.
This is the same reason why some mediaplayers like the Boxee Box that was originally intended to use the Tegra2 moved on to an Intel chipset before launch.
In short the Tegra2 chipset will support playback of videos encoded in 1080p or 720p resolution, using the H264 video codec and AAC audio codec - as long as the video are encoded after the baseline profile standard
It will not now or ever - play 1080p/720p encodes encoded after the high profile standard."
So basically, you have to reencode videos just like on ipad..

ruggs1234 said:
The O2X has been able to play MKV's since Gingerbread...but only to a low profile level. MKV's downloaded (tv shows etc) are all 720p HIGH Profile and the phone could not support that as the Tegra chip couldnt handle the HIGH profile.
Are you saying that our phones can now play 720p HIGH profile MKV's...because, if it can, I may actually update!
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Friend,
As you said that O2x was able to play MKV video format since GB but in a low profile level.But after the O2x was updated to latest V30a ICS upgrade the native video player app is supporting more formats and can play 720p high profile MKV video formats.I tried to play 720p BRRIP x264 dual audio.mkv movie and it played smoothly, without any audio delay as experienced in GB.Only problem that i faced with native video player was that i was unable to select the preferred audio language in dual audio mkv file as there is no option to select audio language.Other wise native video player is superb:good:.

Thread moved. Please post all question threads here in Q&A in future where they belong.
Thanks
AvRS

that is great to know. love mkv.

L3.1 can be called High profile yet and O2x can handle it with 720p. sometimes i find some video that physicaly gets over phone posibilities. its played with HW decoder and its not very smooth.
if you want to made 1080p videos, use handbrake and set the settings with tegra decoding possibility manual. But i dont know if something changed with ICS, but i was not able mount SD card with other FS than fat32 and there is not posible to have file with more size than 4GB and its not enough for 1080p movie in low profile

arvindlakra21 said:
Friend,
As you said that O2x was able to play MKV video format since GB but in a low profile level.But after the O2x was updated to latest V30a ICS upgrade the native video player app is supporting more formats and can play 720p high profile MKV video formats.I tried to play 720p BRRIP x264 dual audio.mkv movie and it played smoothly, without any audio delay as experienced in GB.Only problem that i faced with native video player was that i was unable to select the preferred audio language in dual audio mkv file as there is no option to select audio language.Other wise native video player is superb:good:.
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You attached thumbnail indicates that what you were sucessfully watching was indeed an MKV file (a 720p rip) but it does not indicate the profile of the file.
Most downloaded high definition MKV video files, especially tv shows, are MKV files (at 720p) encoded to HIGH profile level 4.0 or above. In Gingerbread these files would not play unless they were converted to mp4 at a lower profile than HIGH (I used BASELINE). This is a limitation of the Tegra 2 chipset in the phone.
Your Cloverfield file is an MKV, but I strongly suspect that the profile of the file is lower than HIGH (the file size is too small for a high definition, HIGH profile encoded movie with that runtime)
Sadly, im still not convinced the phone will play an MKV high definition file encoded at HIGH Profile 4.0 or above. And I dont intend to risk upgrading to ICS (with all the problems that could bring) to find out.
However, I would love to be proved wrong....