I recently bought a tf700 32gb. I have a roughly 25 gb music collection and a couple movies I want to put on my infinity from my old laptop. I have all of the media saved on a 32gb sd card, the problem is that the stock music and video players don't like some of the file types ( it won't play. WMA music or .mkv or .mp4 movies). What would all of you recommend as far as players that handle more file types or ways to convert the files?
tttimmcg said:
the stock music and video players don't like some of the file types ( it won't play. WMA music or .mkv or .mp4 movies). What would all of you recommend as far as players that handle more file types or ways to convert the files?
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I can recommend BSPlayer.
BSPlayer is what I use too, seems to play everything under the sun...
BS player won't do it. Sometimes it'll play about a second of the movies before crashing, mostly it just t fails to open the files. Could it be that the files are too large? All of them are larger than two and a half gb's. I'm pretty sure my card is formatted correctly because i can play a 700 mb .avi video from it.
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tttimmcg said:
BS plagued won't do it. Sometimes it'll play about a second of the movies before crashing, mostly it just t fails to open the files. Could it be that the files are too large? All of them are larger than two and a half gb's. I'm pretty sure my card is formatted correctly because i can play a 700 mb .avi video from it.
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I have not had any issues in playing movies in excess of 4 GB with BSPlayer
tttimmcg said:
I recently bought a tf700 32gb. I have a roughly 25 gb music collection and a couple movies I want to put on my infinity from my old laptop. I have all of the media saved on a 32gb sd card, the problem is that the stock music and video players don't like some of the file types ( it won't play. WMA music or .mkv or .mp4 movies). What would all of you recommend as far as players that handle more file types or ways to convert the files?
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PowerAmp for audio. DICE player for video.
I have the free version of the app, could that cause the problem?
BS player has played everything i threw at it. Im watching n 11gb 1080p blu ray mkv of Avengers right now, with no issues.
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I have the free version of the app, could that cause the problem?
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I would copy some media files to the internal storage and try it again, this would rule out sd card issues...
While I'm at it, can I ask how your sdcards are formatted, or where the media your playing is saved?
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While I'm at it, can I ask how your sdcards are formatted, or where the media your playing is saved?
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Sandisk 64 microsd, straight out of box, mkv, vob, avi, mpeg m4v files have been played via bsplayer.
Have played files from micro sd, internal storage, and smb share.
tttimmcg said:
BS player won't do it. Sometimes it'll play about a second of the movies before crashing, mostly it just t fails to open the files. Could it be that the files are too large? All of them are larger than two and a half gb's. I'm pretty sure my card is formatted correctly because i can play a 700 mb .avi video from it.
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I haven't had any issues with it. Granted I have only played mkv (with DTS audio) on it, either from local storage or streaming from a Twonky server. It can't be the file size, the movies I played were 10+ GB.
Ok, so i wasn't specific enough before, I had my music and movies on a 32 microSD drive, mounted to the tablet. I tried putting it into an adapter and using it with the keyboard dock. Now everything is working exactly like i should be. I took the files from my laptop with the card and adapter combo too, but i dont know if that has anything to do with this solution working. This is different from the original subject, but does anyone know why this might be, or how I could get it to work with just the microSD?
And for the record, Im liking BSPlayer for movies, and Player Pro for music.
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Wondering if there is a way to watch avi movie files on the xoom without converting the files
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Wondering if there is a way to watch avi movie files on the xoom without converting the files
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Sure.....find a media player app that will play avi.
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Sure.....find a media player app that will play avi.
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What a useless response
OP: I use rockplayer lite. It plays every .avi file I throw at it.
MX Video player is pretty sweet and free.
I like that you can pinch zoom vids while playing
This was one of the posts that came up under search. I transferred several movies to the sd card from my computer. I was able to watch them at one point with a movie player and now can not access or see any movies on the sd card. I put the sd card back in my computer and see the movies in the folder.
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This was one of the posts that came up under search. I transferred several movies to the sd card from my computer. I was able to watch them at one point with a movie player and now can not access or see any movies on the sd card. I put the sd card back in my computer and see the movies in the folder.
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1.When you put your SDcard back in your device, make sure you click mount SDcard in your settings menu.
2. Along with the above suggestion, before you drop your card in the Xoomy, (find a converter, I lke "audials tunebite"it's pretty fast) Just convert them to mp4 and you can view them in the default player, and any other player for that matter- and it is all good!
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I use mobo player free in the market. Best there is imho.
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Oh,ok I use PlayerPro. So, glad they got it working. Yeah I just convert to mp4. I just ran across this thread late i guess. LOL
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This was one of the posts that came up under search. I transferred several movies to the sd card from my computer. I was able to watch them at one point with a movie player and now can not access or see any movies on the sd card. I put the sd card back in my computer and see the movies in the folder.
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I had the same thing happen to me. I couldn't, for the life of me, figure out what happened to my files. I also removed the sd card from the Xoom but that didn't bring them back. I had to unmount/mount the sd card in settings before it would work.
Also, DVD Catalyst 4 is an awesome program that will convert your movies into a Xoom high quality format. I ripped several movies yesterday and it was easy and works great AND the movies look awesome on the Xoom.
Another vote for MX player. Plays .avi, .mkv, .mp4 supports hardwre and software encoding. Touch (swipe) controls for volume, brightness, scroll back and forward. all-around great player. and FREE
Hello all,
I'm very new to Asus and Google OS but not new to the tech scene. I wanted to watch avi movies on my transformer so I loaded a few tv episodes onto a microSD (generic, 32gb class 4) but not all the files will play. I'm using MxPlayer and DicePlayer and neither are doing the trick. I've also tried MoboPlayer, BSPlayer and Rockplayer. None of these will handle all the avi files. Only selective files will play.
The plot thickens. I understand avi's can have a wide assortment of codecs but for one tv show (Friends) I personally ripped all the episodes myself from a DVD collection using Handbrake, with the same settings for all episodes (which now I forget because it's been so long). SOME of these episodes play perfectly without a hitch while others won't load at all.
Can anyone advise on troubleshooting? Could it be there generic microSD card? Do I need to download additional codecs from the internet or search other media players?
Thanks in advance!!
Asus Transformer TF101 + keyboard dock
4.0.3 ICS
MicroSD FAT32 using Disk Utility on iMac
It could be that some of them didn't copy over correctly. Check the file size of each episode to see if it matches on your computer ad the SD card. If it doesn't, that's your problem. If they do match, try playing them from the SD on your computer. If they don't play right, delete and copy them back over (or re-rip). If they all play fine, find someone who knows this better than I do. Oh, and MX will tell you the codec under Tools->Properties->More when you're watching them.
I have a stock rom rooted GT P5113 running 4.0.4. I am getting ready to go on vacation and want to load some of my movies on it for the 4 hour plane ride. I am having trouble getting videos to load. Most of my movies are M4V and I know it wont play those. I do have some that are .mp4 format, so i tried loading one of those on my external sd card. my card is the sandisk sdxc64GB class 10 formatted fat32 and its recognized by both the tab and my laptop when i plug my tab in.
When I try to load one of my .mp4 movies it gets about 99% done and says that the format is not supported and it gives me 2 options to skip the file or cancel the install... WTF is going on here? I only have a week to sort this out. I HATE THIS ITUNES BS. why are they allowed to format the movies that I buy in their proprietary format with their proprietary DRM so i can only load MY movies and shows on a Crapple device? This is why I got rid of ALL of my Apple devices. They need to be rained in some.
Check the size of that mp4 file.
If it is more than 4 GB then it cannot be transferred to that card since it is formatted in fat32.
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For size is only in the 700mb range...What if I put the sdcard in my laptop transferred the files and then put it back in my tab?
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Install mx player from market. I think it should play those m4v files.
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Install mx player from market. I think it should play those m4v files.
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Te issue wasnt playing the M4V videos... i didnt know if it would or not, i couldnt even get them on the tab... kept giving me an error and canceling the transfer.
UPDATE: I have this issue resolved, KIND OF.
I still cant add the videos with the usb cable from my computer, but i did get a M4V video on the sdxc card by unmounting and removing it from the tab, putting it into my laptop, transferring a movie and putting the card back in the tab and mounting it. I did use MX payer and it does in fact play M4V videos just fine.
hoep this helps someone else that is having this issue.
I've got all my movies ripped onto my hard drive in .mkv format using MakeMKV. I just got the Infinity TF700 and am using HandBrake to convert to .mp4 so they play on my TF700.
Curious has anyone figured out the optimal settings in HandBrake to convert a .mkv to .mp4 for play on the TF700? All the guides I've seen that detail settings are specific to the TF101 or TF201, and while they work and the files play fine, with the TF700 having a higher resolution I figured the settings would need to be tweaked slightly for more optimal display on the TF700 screen.
Part of the reason I'm converting using Handbrake is because of the smaller file size, as well as I'm having problems transferring .mkv over to my tablet via USB (and no I don't have DivX installed, so that isn't to blame), but it works fine once the file is .mp4.
I'm using MXPlayer..MKV play great. I can choose subs, and audio tracks, etc. I've been using mxplayer for so long I actually purchased mxplayer pro.
But u can go with the free version unless u decided to go pro too.
I'm an anime geek. So I get original Japanese content all the time.
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I'm using MXPlayer..MKV play great. I can choose subs, and audio tracks, etc. I've been using mxplayer for so long I actually purchased mxplayer pro.
But u can go with the free version unless u decided to go pro too.
I'm an anime geek. So I get original Japanese content all the time.
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The problem I'm experiencing is I don't have a micro SD card yet, so for the time being am transferring movies to the tablet over USB. When I try to copy/paste any .mkv file over to the tablet it fails every time. I've read some people this is because of having DivX installed, however I don't have this installed so that's not my problem. The other problem is my blu ray movies are uncompressed and some are over 30 GB. So to allow more movies on my tablet I run them through Handbrake to shrink them down somewhat in size. Also, I have no problems copying/pasting .mp4 files through windows explorer in Windows 7.
you don't need to convert mp4 into mkv?
been watching my m4v (basically same thing as mp4 with a bit a difference) and never had a problem. I believe the built-in camera app shoots videos and saves them as mp4
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you don't need to convert mp4 into mkv?
been watching my m4v (basically same thing as mp4 with a bit a difference) and never had a problem. I believe the built-in camera app shoots videos and saves them as mp4
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I have all my movies in .mkv for my HTPC and are unaltered quality, so non compressed. So all my movies are already ripped onto my hard drive in .mkv format for my HDTV, however because they are uncompressed file size is large.
So for movies I want to watch on my tablet, I'm taking those .mkv's and using Handbrake to compress them and convert to .mp4. That way I can have several of my HD movies (over 20GB each in .mkv format) on my tablet. If I just copied over the .mkv, which won't work as it errors out, I could only have 1 movie on my 32GB tablet.
If you guys into movies and blue ray quality as such, best bet is get a mini portable hard drive and plug it to your dock or buy a usb adaptor if you don't have a dock. It's a lot cheaper than sdcard and all the hasle of converting and compressing. 1Tb is about $60-70$ on amazon and you can move it around easily. Just a suggestion.
buhohitr said:
If you guys into movies and blue ray quality as such, best bet is get a mini portable hard drive and plug it to your dock or buy a usb adaptor if you don't have a dock. It's a lot cheaper than sdcard and all the hasle of converting and compressing. 1Tb is about $60-70$ on amazon and you can move it around easily. Just a suggestion.
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+ 1 on this approach. I have been running uncompressed .mkv to my big screen via HDMI from an old terabyte brick of an external drive via the USB with no lag or stutter. Takes to long to transfer them onto the TF700 and I can never find that tiny USB adapter for my microSD card. Tiny is cool and all but do they have to design those frigging adapters to disappear every other time you use them?
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I've got all my movies ripped onto my hard drive in .mkv format using MakeMKV. I just got the Infinity TF700 and am using HandBrake to convert to .mp4 so they play on my TF700.
Curious has anyone figured out the optimal settings in HandBrake to convert a .mkv to .mp4 for play on the TF700? All the guides I've seen that detail settings are specific to the TF101 or TF201, and while they work and the files play fine, with the TF700 having a higher resolution I figured the settings would need to be tweaked slightly for more optimal display on the TF700 screen.
Part of the reason I'm converting using Handbrake is because of the smaller file size, as well as I'm having problems transferring .mkv over to my tablet via USB (and no I don't have DivX installed, so that isn't to blame), but it works fine once the file is .mp4.
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Get DVD Catalyst at http://www.tools4movies.com/
It's on sale right now for $9.95
The program has built-In profiles for just about ANY device you can think of including at least half a dozen profiles for the TF700. Which one you use simply depends on what sort of final quality you want to see. I've used it to make smaller files for the TF201. TF700, iPad2, iPhone 3, 4, 5, WD TV Live, etc.....
Paying for software isn't a good solution if u ask me. Why buy what u could do for free? Then again, if u are not a techy and not comfortable with linux, cli, or even learning about bit rates, compression, ect. Buying software may be ur better option. Software will become obsolete and $10 wasted, but knowledge to do it yourself it much more valuable and cheaper on it pocket book plus u won't have to worry if it will work on win8 (which is probably NOT as win8 has issues with optical drive software such as burning and ripping software and isn't fully backward compatible to xp and 7 applications).
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I use freemake to convert my files
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Hi,
for my holidays I copied some records from my receiver to the tablet. All the movies are from ARD HD and come in ts format.
I tried to watch the movies with different players (MX-Player, ...), but with each player the same result:
after around one minute the sound becomes asynchron and so I couldn´t watch the movie...
Is the tablet to slow for such records? Does it help to install a faster ROM (I´m using the original ROM).
The files are on my Class 10 SD card. I couldn´t test it on local memory, because I have not enough space.
Somebody has/had similar problems?
Cheers!
I tried some more apps and with VLC the movie and sound works like expected! But I recognized a very little jerking in the video...
I also installed the ARM 7 Neo(?) codecs for MX Player and now it works with the MX Player too.
But I'm also think about installing a new faster Image...