S7, Gear VR and SD card - Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers

Hello,
Tried to put some movies on the SD card to view them on the Gear VR but Oculus can't find these. Only when i put them on the internal storage.
Anyone got this working?

Same here, I've tried avi, mkv and mp4, still it does not work.

Don't know if this will work, but try using them through the Milk VR app?

Did you move the videos to Oculus folder?

having the same issue, same path folders on SD and and internal storage - and on SD oculus does not see any movies

Blues is correct. You have to create a folder named either oculus360 or milk. Then drop your files in the folder.
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jonahtriangle said:
Blues is correct. You have to create a folder named either oculus360 or milk. Then drop your files in the folder.
Sent from my SM-G920T using Tapatalk
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thanks for opinion.
As I can guess this is based on experience in S6.
It does not work with S7 (I mean regarding folder)
For milk - not yet familiar what is it, but will check, thank you for hint.

I have the same issue.
I think the reason is that the software shipped with the gear vr for S7 users is the same software as on the S6 version (as it's the same headset), not the software on the Note 4 edition. And as the S6 has no sd card, the software is not set up for it. Had it been the Note software, it'd be set up for it. So the tips people are posting about the Oculus folder do work, but only for the Note edition.
I believe this is a know issue and will be fixed with a software update soon.

It's unrelated to topic but can someone put pic of VR device they get free with S7?
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/mobile/galaxy-gear
Which one do you get: SM-R322, SM-R321 or SM-R320?

shaq1907 said:
Which one do you get: SM-R322, SM-R321 or SM-R320?
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are there any known differences?

The SM-R322 is shipped with the S7. But the problem is with the software, not the device. I think the auto download downloads the S6 Oculus software, not the Note software. Hence no Sd support.

mannequin said:
are there any known differences?
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I don't know actually but SM-R321 is known as Gear VR2 and released later.

B4114M said:
I have the same issue.
I think the reason is that the software shipped with the gear vr for S7 users is the same software as on the S6 version (as it's the same headset), not the software on the Note 4 edition. And as the S6 has no sd card, the software is not set up for it. Had it been the Note software, it'd be set up for it. So the tips people are posting about the Oculus folder do work, but only for the Note edition.
I believe this is a know issue and will be fixed with a software update soon.
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Your guess was right, see Oculus answer below....
Constantine (Oculus Support)
Mar 11, 8:37 PM
Hello ,
Thanks for contacting Oculus Support!
At this time the functionality for playing videos off of an SD card has not been implemented for S7 devices.
Our teams are hard at work to add this feature in a future update.
For now, I recommend storing videos intended for playback in Gear VR on your phone's internal storage.
If you have any additional questions or concerns, please let me know.
Thank you!
Constantine
Oculus Support

Oculus Files
Can someone help? From you tube clips I see that on my "Device Storage", under Oculus there should be different files like movies etc... but on my phone there is no files, just some odd items like defaultDistortion.bin, can someone advise how can I find my Oculus games and apps? I use it with my Samsung galaxy S7 edge and Samsung gear VR. Thank you

View your Samsumg Gear VR videos on SD card
Simple solution: Samsung S7 Edge
on SD card in Root make a folder called Oculus then sub folder movies then folder My Videos
Oculus/movies/My Videos (copy your videos to here)
Oculus Cinema go to My Videos - poof! see and play the videos . works!!
Also to view 3D or 360videos
Oculus/movies/3d
Oculus/movies/360videos
they will render correctly
Enjoy Ceb

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Can't get avi or mp4 to play!

Hi All. Just got the Note 10.1 and loving it so far.
However, for some reason, I can't get any avi or mp4 to play. These are files that play perfectly well on my Galaxy Tab 7", SGS2 and SGS3 but refuse to play on the Note. I've tried a few other players and they refuse to play the files as well.
Any thoughts, hints or tips?
Cheers
I had a similar issue with my optimus 2x files did not play only sound can try changing hardware accelaration settings. May be the way the video is encoded it is not compatible with note codecs
You clearly haven't tried BSplayer. It's like a real vlc for android!
skadebo said:
You clearly haven't tried BSplayer. It's like a real vlc for android!
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Unfortunately, BS Player didn't work either! All I get is Blue notification box with a warning triangle saying
Cannot play video
Sorry this video cannot be played.
Forgot to mention that the Heli vid plays fine.
Also, I am Stock out of the box flavour of Android.
MX Player works for me. Anything I throw at it. If it doesn't, just change codec to software from hardware.
And there IS a VLC for android btw...
How are you transferring the videos to the device?
skadebo said:
How are you transferring the videos to the device?
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Copying files onto files on micro SD card and inserting it. Tried copying files onto internal SD but this didn't make any difference.
blud7 said:
MX Player works for me. Anything I throw at it. If it doesn't, just change codec to software from hardware.
And there IS a VLC for android btw...
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Same thing with MXP.
Really has got me stumped
Cookie999 said:
Hi All. Just got the Note 10.1 and loving it so far.
However, for some reason, I can't get any avi or mp4 to play. These are files that play perfectly well on my Galaxy Tab 7", SGS2 and SGS3 but refuse to play on the Note. I've tried a few other players and they refuse to play the files as well.
Any thoughts, hints or tips?
Cheers
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this is weird, my Note 10.1 plays anything I have and Im using the built in video player. Can you you PM me a description of a file of what you are trying to play so I can test it ?
Dont post a torrent link here.
Try turning off the force GPU rendering setting?
Bagbug said:
this is weird, my Note 10.1 plays anything I have and Im using the built in video player. Can you you PM me a description of a file of what you are trying to play so I can test it ?
Dont post a torrent link here.
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I know, never had this problem with any of my Samsung devices before. PM sent.
Cookie999 said:
I know, never had this problem with any of my Samsung devices before. PM sent.
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I just watched the movie you told me to try and everything is fine. I used the stock player btw.
Sounds like it might be a warranty job.... Most people I know had it up and running out of the box with no problems....
If this was a hardware issue we should see the videos playing using software acceleration in diceplayer, bs player and others. The fact that these videos wont play at all on this device suggest some soft of software / codec issue. You say they play fine on other Samsung devices, i'd try a full ROM reinstall first before doing anything else.
Even if this is a software problem it shouldn't be this much trouble to get your tablet working. I'd still take it back under warranty as the codecs should be preloaded...
You haven't mentioned if you have rooted or whether you are on a cooked ROM, if so taking it back as a first step might be more hassle. I'd still recommend a total factory wipe before taking it back.
If you can record video on your tablet and play it back it would suggest to me there is nothing wrong with the hardware which is why I believe a factory reset should resolve it.
Can you record and playback?
Thanks for all the suggestions.
I went back to basics and eliminated everything hardware wise that might have caused the problems. I then had the brainwave of sticking my micro SD card from my SG3 into the Note and lo and behold, I could play videos with no problems at all! So I re-formatted the card in my PC (originally I had formatted it in the Note) and stuck an AVI on the newly formatted card. This played perfectly :laugh:
I hadn't thought it was the SD card as I could play MP3s from it with no problems at all, just wouldn't play videos.
Once again, many thanks for taking the time to help me with this problem.
:good:
I have a related problem.
I'm transferring MP4 videos from Windows 7 PC - Micro SD card in adaptor in the card slot on PC.
It will let me transfer about 5 and play them ok. Then it transfers the films, but gives the "Sorry cannot play this video" error message. When I look at the details of these none players, the resolution says 0x0 and the duration reads 00.00.
I have tried this on a Samsung 32gb disc formatted on the Note, and long format on a laptop running Vista. I've also tried a 16gb sd card. Same results every time.
Having read the thread, I tried recording video on the GN 10, it recorded and plays back ok.
Any suggestions would be welcome! I also hope this thread is still alive lol.

[Q] (Q) how to view movies on S6 gear vr ...

I saw there was a thread on this issue(gear vr s6 movie download or viewing ) but i didn't find it helpfull...
on my S6 device, i have an oculos folder but nothing in it... since this is not the note 4 gear vr - but the s6 i don't have external storage...
i go into - files - device storage- oculos and there are no more folders inside.
should i create new ones there ? any where else ? and then put my popcorn time uploads inside?
also, where can i find 3d content and again, should i create folders for it ?
thank you all for the help in advance since i really want to watch movies on the S6 gear vr but can't for now...
thanks!

[Q] s6 gear vr movie watching on the cinema app

I saw there was a thread on this issue(gear vr s6 movie download or viewing ) but i didn't find it helpfull...
on my S6 device, i have an oculos folder but nothing in it... since this is not the note 4 gear vr - but the s6 i don't have external storage...
i go into - files - device storage- oculos and there are no more folders inside.
should i create new ones there ? any where else ? and then put my popcorn time uploads inside?
also, where can i find 3d content and again, should i create folders for it ?
thank you all for the help in advance since i really want to watch movies on the S6 gear vr but can't for now...
thanks!

Video Player?

I'm brand new to the Gear/Tizen scene. Is there a video player app that allows you to play local video files stored on the Gear S2?
Cant say I've seen one - if you do find one, do let us know
I've had video play when video search the through text. But no video app launcher
I believe Filesmaster does but have not tried it yet.
scdoyle said:
I believe Filesmaster does but have not tried it yet.
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Yeah it sure looks like it based on the screen shots for the companion Android app. Thanks!
mdude04 said:
I'm brand new to the Gear/Tizen scene. Is there a video player app that allows you to play local video files stored on the Gear S2?
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Definitely you must download Filesmaster. It plays video, music, show pictures and open some text files. Great stuff to play media and manage files and folders.
I use Filesmaster to transfer movies from phone to S2 and watch then in train on way to office. It even plays subtitles too, only SRT format so far.
Wrote to author to add TXT subs too.
zigismall said:
Definitely you must download Filesmaster. It plays video, music, show pictures and open some text files. Great stuff to play media and manage files and folders.
I use Filesmaster to transfer movies from phone to S2 and watch then in train on way to office. It even plays subtitles too, only SRT format so far.
Wrote to author to add TXT subs too.
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Thank you! This was the one thing that still had me on the edge of whether or not to buy. (I'm genuinely surprised that this doesn't seem to be as big a deal for anyone else; could find no other discussion on it). Just placed my Gear S2 3G order now.
mdude04 said:
Thank you! This was the one thing that still had me on the edge of whether or not to buy. (I'm genuinely surprised that this doesn't seem to be as big a deal for anyone else; could find no other discussion on it). Just placed my Gear S2 3G order now.
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You are welcome
One can find a few good apps for S2 but still miserable with apps on Samsung Apps store.
However, it is begin, S2 is sold for 2 months yet, so should be better with apps soon. Probably in few months will be
thousands of apps for s2. Cheers!
mdude04 said:
I'm brand new to the Gear/Tizen scene. Is there a video player app that allows you to play local video files stored on the Gear S2?
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there is Video Player S2 for gear s2, works with my subtitles

[Resolved] Playing video via Gallery is messed up

First, my phone: SM-N910T Note 4 w/ 6.0.1 not rooted
This began over the weekend, this being that when I select a video via Gallery that what is played instead appears to be the first video on my phone in order of file name regardless of the file location. It starts with a video in the Video folder on my SD card before moving on to a video I made with my camera wherever those are stored. Trying to play a video not on the SD card results in the same different files being played.
I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app, with no success. Does anyone have an idea?
TacoFerret said:
First, my phone: SM-N910T Note 4 w/ 6.0.1 not rooted
This began over the weekend, this being that when I select a video via Gallery that what is played instead appears to be the first video on my phone in order of file name regardless of the file location. It starts with a video in the Video folder on my SD card before moving on to a video I made with my camera wherever those are stored. Trying to play a video not on the SD card results in the same different files being played.
I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app, with no success. Does anyone have an idea?
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I can reproduce it. Issue forwarded to the developer.
ktsamy said:
I can reproduce it. Issue forwarded to the developer.
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Thank you for looking into the issue!
TacoFerret said:
Thank you for looking into the issue!
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It's already fixed on 1.8.6.
Hence closing this thread.

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