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So I've taken a lot of videos of my tilt, but I can't get them to play on my PC. They're in .mp4 format but they won't play in WMP, iTunes, QuickTime, or GOM Player. Anyone know a program that can handle these or what I can do to perhaps change the format the phone outputs them?
VLC should work.
After I move the video files from my tilt to my computer, I just rename the file from mp4 to 3gp, example: "video1.mp4" to "video1.3gp". It plays fine in quicktime after that. It gives me a warning that changing the file extension might make the file unreadable or something, but I haven't had a problem yet.
VLC (the aggressive player) will play anything you want, just get the right edition for you.
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VLC won't work. It plays the audio but the screen is blank. =/
That's odd, my copy of VLC plays the Video but not the audio....
You can upload them to youtube and myspace and they will play fine there...lol
Spartan2x said:
That's odd, my copy of VLC plays the Video but not the audio....
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same here, except WMP plays the audio and video fine for me, but then when i try and exit it crashes lol
dude wtf...why cant it just output normal video
Hello,
I have the same issue. I could not have VLC read the movies correctly.
I now use Mirksoft Mobile 3GP converter to transform my videos into avi format (with correct output on VLC).
It can be found here : http://www.miksoft.net/
Hope this helps
there is a quicktime codec for vlc, with this you have sound and video
if you want them to play in WMP, you need a 3ivx codec.
http://www.3ivx.com/codec/download_win.php?format=exe
It's a trial, but it DOES work.
try this one Gom Player http://www.gomlab.com/eng/ it downlads codecs if you dont have them it should read any video.
boss1234 said:
After I move the video files from my tilt to my computer, I just rename the file from mp4 to 3gp, example: "video1.mp4" to "video1.3gp". It plays fine in quicktime after that. It gives me a warning that changing the file extension might make the file unreadable or something, but I haven't had a problem yet.
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I tried this and it worked just fine! Just changed the file extension to .3gp and it play perfectly in quicktime, good audio/video.
I have read that the captivate is divx certified? Is this true do I need an app to make this happen or is this going to be added with froyo? I hate converting files after downloading..... Just too time consuming
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The question to ask is, whats the container, whats the file size?
Generally a full length movie seven hundred mb or so, not sure what you mean by container but I am downloading from a windows vista or seven box to my phone
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I've played multiple xvid files (each 300mb+) and they've run perfectly fine, so I'm assuming that divx would run fine also.
just download a media player app from the market. i think rock media player or whatever it's called can play a lot of different encoded files that the stock media player can't even recognize
evosky said:
just download a media player app from the market. i think rock media player or whatever it's called can play a lot of different encoded files that the stock media player can't even recognize
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no, the phone is divx certified AS IS. rockplayer isn't required. the default video player app will play xvid and divx by default. and I believe it's even capable of mkv 1080p files
i can verify that a 2.1 gb mkv file encoded in 720p runs perfectly
I've also had a problem playing xvid and divx files (each ~700mb).
they are all labeled avi's. I've tried 3.
I am having problems too trying to play Divx files. I am having issues with the Divx files that I made that are from my movie collection. Here are the characteristics of the files I have been trying to use but they just wont work:
AVI container
Divx Codec (used AutoGK)
AC3 audio (I tried MP3 also didn't work)
File size is between 1-2GB in size.
Can anyone tell why I can't play any of my Divx files? I am transfering these files to my memory card through Windows and then putting the memory card in the device. I would think since this is Divx compatible this should be a no brainer since the files work on a PS3 and Xbox 360 without a problem.
So far only Rock Player will play my files.
Divx doesn't work for the Captivate
Kaik541 said:
no, the phone is divx certified AS IS. rockplayer isn't required. the default video player app will play xvid and divx by default. and I believe it's even capable of mkv 1080p files
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Actually I have to disagree. Either I am doing something completely wrong, but there is no way this will play Divx files consistently. I have been tooling around with it for 3 days now and I get nothing but inconsistency. So here is the scoop.
All my divx files are AVI.
All files converted with AutoGK and Divx Codec
Some have AC3 sound others are MP3
Typical file size is between 1.2-2GB
The ONLY files I can get to play on this thing consistently are Xvid encoded files. I have tried Divx files with 2 audio channels, 5.1 sound and none of them work. Heck I even downloaded one of the Divx files from www.divx.com Big Buck Bunny (mobile version) and that didn't work. This did play an HD MP4 that I had but wouldn't play the sound I am guessing because it was AC3.
In the end I don't see how this phone is Divx certified if I can't get a Divx movie to play unless I use Rockplayer, which I don't want to use because that is all CPU and not GPU being used for playback.
For people who do get it working, are you putting the movies on the phone a special way or something?
I play divx and xvid files on mine fine with the stock media player. No converting....just copy and paste.
Actually DivX Plus HD certified
Actually, if you read the press release, the Galaxy S is DivX Plus HD certified. Hence it will play MKV/H.264 just fine. Why they support DivX Plus but not standard DivX, I have no idea. According to specs for Captivate on samsung.com, supported formats are MPEG4, AAC, AAC+, H.263, H.264. Xvid (AVI) seems to also work for most people.
Options for standard def DivX seem to be convert to mp4 or other supported type or use a non-stock video player that supports DivX.
jd1peters said:
I play divx and xvid files on mine fine with the stock media player. No converting....just copy and paste.
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What size are your divx files that you are playing? I am curious to see what the disconnect is with the content that I have.
I downloaded vplayer beta on my Evo and it works great. Tried it on the nook and it doesnt work. Anyone get anything done???
I used Zimly to get around this on my HTC. Just tried it and it does not work with wma files.
I have used mcebuddy to transcode mediacenter tv programs to generic mp4. it works with the nook stock player, but not zimly...
secfincorp said:
I downloaded vplayer beta on my Evo and it works great. Tried it on the nook and it doesnt work. Anyone get anything done???
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I have Vplayer working, but cant seem to bring up any menu while video plays.
I check email on the book and get alot of emails that have attachments so i just wanted to be able to open.
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I have successfully played .wmv with yxplayer. It's not free however.
yx has very mixed reviews... how is it on your nc?
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It works ok. But I only have 1 wmv file.
just tried winamp... that didn't work either, though at least it could read the tags. yx has such terrible reviews that I don't want to go there.
RockPlayer
The best media player I have found to run on my Nook Color is the RockPlayer. I have not tried .WMA or .WMV files on it but it is very good with .AVI, etc.
A brief description of a recent release, that I found on the web, reads as follows:
"RockPlayer is a powerfull media player for android phones, it offers support for a wide range of video formats which includes AVI, MKV, RMVB, MP4, FLV, 3GP, MOV, WMV, ASF, RV40, DivX, Xvid, and H.264."
I believe I downloaded my copy from The Android Market.
Rock player works for many different formats. I have played .avi files perfectly almost as good as my home dvd player. However .wmv didnt work correctly. I redownloaded Vplayer it seems they did a little tweaking and I played 2 .wmv files that were email attachments that i downloaded to the nook perfectly....
has anyone figured out how to stream 720p .mkv files to the tab? i've tried vlc stream and convert but that doesn't work. i've tried tversity and that doesn't work either. when i stream with vlc s&c, i just get a blank screen with no video but i get audio. with tversity, it doesn't even work at all. gives me an error saying video is not supported.
I have some success with Rock Video Player, and cifs supported kernel. I can map a drive, and browse files on my Windows 7 Machine, and pretty much play pretty much everything except large iso files or mpeg or vob files with the size of 4.0G size.
rob_z11 said:
I have some success with Rock Video Player, and cifs supported kernel. I can map a drive, and browse files on my Windows 7 Machine, and pretty much play pretty much everything except large iso files or mpeg or vob files with the size of 4.0G size.
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rock video player can play videos over lan? how are you browsing a mapped drive, with es file explorer? you're using clemsyn's kernel? which one are you using: clempatch10.9.3CIFFsvegan.zip or clempatchvegan10.9.8.zip? i don't really know the difference between those two. i'm on vegan b5.1 right now.
@rob, i am also using vegan 5.1, can you explain how you are able to play the mkv files, and also is those mkv files are main profile, is there any high profile you are able to play.
Mine is mostly DVD converted in Mkv files.
yea using ES and whichever kernel, (both work) I can stream avi from win7 machine to grab, well I get video but no audio...try to turn volume up and get "media does not support stremaing, player wil be started automatically after transferring completely"
try to play 720p mkv and it says no application
So I downloaded the Transformers movie that came with the nexus 7. I also looked into copying that file over to my desktop for viewing on the big screen. Well it worked, I was able to copy it view WiFi file explorer, and when opened in VLC it played. However it did not seem to fully work. I couldn't drag the slider to skip ahead.
I'm guessing VLC would handle the video much better if it were in a file type it understood. Currently its a .wvm I searched google for a converter but only got results for .wmv converters.
Anyone know a converter? Any idea's why its a rather unique video file type?
This might do better in the Q/A section. I planned to post it there, must have clicked general by mistake.
If you press ctrl-J in vlc it brings up information, its encoded as an H264 mpeg-4 basically a standard mp4 video.
wvm could just be a different container google use for DRM, I can only play the first 10 seconds in vlc then it stops. Handbrake recognizes it but it only encodes the first 10 seconds.