I downloaded The Dark knight Rises to my phone (from flixster) and I get an error message saying the video cannot be played. I tried downloading several different mp4 video players from the Play Store, but none of those worked either.
Any suggestions? It is happening both to my GSII and my GNoteII
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Mp4 video you are trying to play probably contains a different codec written onto it.
Have you tried 'mxplayer' from store?
Also download different codecs from store after you download mxplayer.
Hope it helps.
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I did try mxplayer with no avail. What is a codec?
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download that movie from any other site.....
Or
convert that to playable format for your phone.
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Jcossack88 said:
I did try mxplayer with no avail. What is a codec?
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A codec is way/method of archieving lossy compression of a video/audio stream. To be able to decode a video using a certain codec your video player needs to support that codec. If your video is in .mp4 format it's most likely going to be using h.264 codec, but I'm surprised you can't play your video with mxplayer cause I've only had success with that.
Have you actually been able to play this video on your computer?
http://www.winxdvd.com/hd-video-converter-deluxe/download.htm?upgrade
Try Dice player from the play store! One of my friend has a note 2 and uses this app! It has lots of cool features and supports a wide variety of formats and codecs! Give it a try! :good:
Okay, so I have figured it out. I have to actually watch the movie in the flixster app, and not through my stock gallery...which I was hoping I could use the pop up play feature, but oh well...
Thank you everyone for your responses, I will still try the dice player just for kicks. Do you know if that one has a pop up player?
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Whats the best app for video? This is my first android so i don't know what is "best." i need it to play MKV, Mp4, AVI, etc.... all @ HD.
MX Video Player
Thanks i will try it.
MX works very good on Fire.
Just watched Modern Family mkv in HD (720p), hardware accelerated, without lags and nothing.
PS. The only problem was the audio channel that didn't work in HW mode. Just changed that to SW decoding and everything was fine.
Rockplayer
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manifest3r said:
MX Video Player
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Yep, MX Video Player is the best video player for the Kindle Fire.
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It's working on my mkv files very well. I also had to switch audio to software decode.
//Tapatalk.KindleFire//
what about vplayer?
I have always trusted in VLC Player, however, technically its still in closed beta for Android, and not available for direct download via the Market.
With the OP being new to Android, I guess I might be expecting a little too much to say, Google for it (VLC-neon.apk), and sideload it?! But I'm putting it out there anyway!
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MX Video Player
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How do you get it to work where you the gray pullup bar on the bottom doesn't interfere with the onscreen controls? Also, do you know if it can stream from Dropbox/Sugarsync? I haved some vids on SS that I stream on Moboplayer, but can't get them to stream on MX.
Currently running aokp build 40
Movies wont play longer thsn a few minutes and even then wont stay in landzcape mode.
Anyone else having this issue.
And what movie player are you guys using? Avi files seem to play back horrible
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mx player has played everything i have thrown at it....give it a shot.
its a very nice player, haven't had any problems with it.
however, not sure if i have tried avi...but pretty sure i have.
See my thread here, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1730177.
I've been using the Dice player and I've been watching my movies in .m4v format, plays good.
mx player here aswell it plays everything with out fault for me
vlc player is working good for me
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I need to try VLC, but I'm using Dice Player Ad from the market right now. Plays everything I've thrown at it so far. I tried MX Player first but I was having to use SW decoding to get audio to play with my mkv files, Dice doesn't have that issue.
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MX PLAYER really did good job on TF300T
audio in AC3 coded is not supported by the system default, MX Player could play that.
Is your player a free app or a pro apk?
My MX player pro that I got from google crashes every couple seconds
I downloaded the free version, which there is no difference besides a ad when you aren't watching
I have a variety of videos I've tried on multiple players including the stock one, and a couple video players available on the Market.
So far most of the videos fail to play.
Can anyone suggest how to upgrade the codecs so the phone can play video? I'm going nuts/.
Diceplayer- haven't found many videos it couldn't play. Watching game of thrones now
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Isn't it the bigmem?
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Try bsplayer
Same here, ive tried even BSplayer (AirKernel JB 191)
Dice works perfect. Thanks!
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MX player
try mx player..it supports alot of formats...plus its codecs are also available in market
I have few MKV video files in my GS3. On stock video player, i can see the thumbnail of that mkv files, but when i played the file, it keep telling me that it can't play the files.
is there anyway to play MKV video files in stock video player?
I highly doubt you will be able to play MKV files on the stock player. But don't take my word for it. Try googling it and do let us know what you find. In the mean time, I could recommend a good free video player I found on the market which works fine for me - MoboPlayer. It's highly rated in the app market and has been perfoming pretty well for me. I've never had to use the stock player ever since I got this.
Yea mobo now let's you have the floating video on home like the stock ones does. It also gives you screen gestures for volume and brightness. Mx video is also a good player as well
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Jarredw said:
Yea mobo now let's you have the floating video on home like the stock ones does. It also gives you screen gestures for volume and brightness. Mx video is also a good player as well
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Hmm..need to try MX video. Looks promising. Thanks for the tip!:good:
Hi,
my note is unable to play my 1080p 50fps videos (from my home HD camcoder), i tried MX player but no succes (HW,HW, SW decoder) - I get only few frames per second... Is there any solution?
Thanks.
Try Mobo player.
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I suggest bsplayer, it did the trick for me.
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I suggest bsplayer, it did the trick for me.
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I like BSPlayer. It seems to work well.
I think that 50 fps are over 30 fps max of HW video decoder capabilities.
Also i suspect a very high bitrate from a video camera file...
I don't think that you will be able to play it smoothly with any software.
I have Mobo, MX and BSplayer. Absolutely BSplayer does the best job. If it doesn't play your video, nothing will. You may have to re-encode with Handbrake.
Just tried the BSPlayer, you are right, it plays everything even files that the Mobo couldn't, thanx a lot for the tip!
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