This was incredibly frustrating but I believe I have it figured out. The problem I was having is that VR videos dumped on my micro SD would not show in the Samsung VR app.
-Store VR video content in the /Video folder on your SD card. If this folder does not exist, make one.
-Download/install media.Re.Scan: from the Play Store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.house.noranuko.mediarescanner).
-Open the app, check all the media items, then select To Advanced Mode. Add your video directory only and remove any other directories (this will prevent the app from scanning all of your storage which takes a long time).
-After the processing completes your video content should now show within the Samsung VR app.
If you want to hide video content you can always add a .nomedia file to your /Video folder via Root Explorer. To re-enabled it's visibility simply delete the .nomedia file and rescan the directory.
I've always put videos in a folder called MilkVR. Works on either Phone or Card. No need to re-scan.
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Hi,
I always have my videos on a folder called Movies and it always worked fine in both Samsung VR and Oculus Movie! In the Samsung VR if you enable a private mode it will also show those videos.
All the best,
~Lord
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I ripped some DVDs to watch on my cappy using handbrake and after transferring them to the sd card, tried internal and external, I don't get a thumbnail or title for the movie in Gallery. I uploaded them into a dir called "MyVideos" in the root of my external card.
I'm running the perception ROM, no tweaks or mods. But I've had this issue with every ROM so far (Cog, Stock, etc)
Anyone find a work around to labeling movies for Gallery? I can browse to the folder using Astro and can read the files names, which I guess could be a reasonable work around, but would prefer to use Gallery.
Look in the video player app, they shold be listed there.
Use whichever file manager app you have to rename it by long pressing on the file.
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Videos Listing in Gallery
The videos in Gallery are listed in "thumb nail" format. Which sometime can't be easily identified. Is there a way to change it to list by file name instead?
Using mVideoPlayer I have used their feature for adding folders to look for videos, but it doesn't seem to recognize sdcard2. it allows you to select it in their browse window, but doesn't seem to index it.
I have movies on sdcard2 that I can see with mVideoPlayer. One thing I had to tweak:
Do you have .nomedia in the same folder as your videos? If so, you have to tell mVideoPlayer to ignore .nomedia. See "Settings/Prefs => VideoList/Behaviour => Respect .nomedia" -- uncheck this. Then do a refresh and your sdcard2 video folder should appear.
I actually found that it would not see the movies on the root of SDCARD2. I created a Videos folder and moved my videos there, then added that as a Folder and it works. Guess it was just something with the root of the SDCARD2.
The files appear to be demos and trailers. All I am using the Gear for is my own movies and perhaps some games.
I have 8GB free on my card, so would rather just put a few movies on it and swap out as I watch them rather than load all this stuff on it.
Though have a 128gb card, it is already loaded with my music, pictures, home vids and a bunch of emulator roms.
Just follow the directory structure for thr oculus folder and put the porn in the my videos folder.
The SD card contents are not required. If you want the content you can copy it to your other card. I did this and it worked fine. If you don't care about having the videos and images and such that are included, then you don't have to move anything over and it will still work fine.
diomark said:
Just follow the directory structure for thr oculus folder and put the porn in the my videos folder.
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Nah, my wife would see the smile on my face and bust me
I figured it out. Ended up getting rid of almost all of it.
Added: Almost all of it is not needed unless you want the demos and trailers.
I have a microSD card with my personal pictures and videos in the DCIM folder. When I use the gear vr, its showing my personal videos in the cinema app. How do I prevent that? In other words, how do I only show the videos I put in the oculus folder?
nevermind, I just renamed the DCIM to something else and that worked.
You can add .nomedia file to your pictures folder and pictures wont show up in gear vr and other galleries.
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chiuey said:
nevermind, I just renamed the DCIM to something else and that worked.
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but the camera app will just create another DCIM folder. theres not other way around this? i dont like to change it back and forth.
How to add a movie to s6 edge to play with gear vr? And also 360 video?
It's easy under the oculus folder there should be a folder called 360Videos. If there is not create it and put the videos in there. For normal videos these needs to go under the Movies folder under the My Videos folder
Got it to work now.
What other folders can be created?
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What other folders can be created?
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here are some links to the folder structure:
Structure of Oculus Cinema Folder - GearVR reddit
Folder Structure - forums.oculus.com
hope this helps mate :highfive:
The best way is to use movies in YTS format.