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[Q] can't play mp4

A friend of mine recorded a video with her Samsung Captivate, and sent it to me via e-mail.
I can't play it on my phone. ("Sorry, this video cannot be played.")
I am able to play the video on my PC, and I transferred it to my phone's SD Card using a USB cable and Mass Storage Mode.
I have the default video player installed, nothing extra and fancy.
I would think that there wouldn't be any problems playing the video on my phone since it was created on a phone.
I know there are other video apps out there, and I would love a recommendation for one that I can set as default and lose the built in video playback.
I would prefer to fix the built in player however.
I'm running KD1, stock, odexed, rooted.

If you're looking for a player. I like double twist. Easy to use in my opinion and I never encountered a problem
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My phone is stock and won't play mp4's or mp3's. It has been doing this for about a week since my last ota.

My phone will play Mp4s, but only if they are recorded on my phone. If it came from someone else's phone, I may as well forget it. Very frustrating.

Slinger, you have to be careful since even if a file is a ".mp4" it might be encoded with a different codec. Our phones support MP4 files with a x264 codec for video and AAC audio. If the file you're trying to play isn't in that format, the default player won't accept it.
You can download Rockplayer Lite to play most other formats:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.redirectin.rockplayer.android.unified.lite

Thanks for the tip. So is the encoding on Captivate different? (that would explain a lot.)

slingeronline said:
Thanks for the tip. So is the encoding on Captivate different? (that would explain a lot.)
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Captivate encoding is the same as the vibrant, meaning the file should play on the galaxy s 4g. If I had a captivate or vibrant I would test it out and report back.
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This is kind of random, but my sister has the same problem on her vibrant. She downloaded launcher 7 to try it out and all of a sudden her videos played again...nothing else was changed.
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[Q] video player help

hi i have a 3pg video on my phone which i tried to play and there didn't seem to be an associated player
i downloaded Arc Media Player and i got no video and only static sound
MoboPlayer seems to work, but in searching around i saw mention of a native application - what native application?
also, what is the 'Watch'? i assumed that would be a player but all it does is give me a handful of old movie trailers

You should be able to watch your recorded 3gp files through the gallery
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o0o0o...thanks...i was trying to open the file from Astro and gallery wasn't coming up as an option

Glad I could help.
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[Q] No video playback, audio only

I recently got a Galaxy S3 and I rooted it, flashed CM10 (I believe cm-10-20121113-UNOFFICIAL-d2vzw from goo.im), installed gapps, etc.
Everything seems to work normally except that the videos I play from the video player, MX Player, YouTube, and Netflix just give me a black screen. Even the instagram camera previewer shows up as black. Audio seems to be okay though. I've looked on XDA and Google but I can't seem to find a fix or troubleshoot this. Help would be greatly appreciated as this is my first time using ROMs on my phone.

Q video streaming

Hi there I'm new
I had an s3 and the video app used to stream videos direct to my lg smart tv, I can't find an app to do this on my honor 6 I did manage to stream music but no videos, they are in my format if that helps.
Can any one recommend an app? Thanks

Multiscreen under quicktiles...
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Brilliant and it works really good too. Thanks for the help

[Q] Issue with audio

I had MX player for a couple years with no problems. Eventually installed the custom codec when AC3 was no longer supported. Everything worked great. Now I'm having issues with some video's audio tracks and not others. Some are fine and others sound like a family of chipmunks arguing/metal ringing and you can't hear ANY dialogue. Full of "artifacts" i guess you would call it. I'm using the Verizon Note 4 on the latest firmware. This was happening with 4.4.4 as well. Thanks in advance for any help.

Hmm, @ktsamy could look into this.

Panzerradeo said:
I had MX player for a couple years with no problems. Eventually installed the custom codec when AC3 was no longer supported. Everything worked great. Now I'm having issues with some video's audio tracks and not others. Some are fine and others sound like a family of chipmunks arguing/metal ringing and you can't hear ANY dialogue. Full of "artifacts" i guess you would call it. I'm using the Verizon Note 4 on the latest firmware. This was happening with 4.4.4 as well. Thanks in advance for any help.
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Can you upload a sample clip?
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ktsamy said:
Can you upload a sample clip?
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Sorry about the delay in replying. Work's been killing me. Unfortunately, I don't have a way to record a sample at the moment. Camera went for a trip over the side of a mountain a few weeks ago. The best way I can describe it is this. The video is perfectly fine. The audio is playing but you can't hear any music, dialogue, or sound effects. It's just a metallic ringing sound. The strange thing is, it plays fine on my computer and my old Asus TF201 Transformer tablet. Just happens on my Note 4. And as said, it's only certain movies.

Panzerradeo said:
Sorry about the delay in replying. Work's been killing me. Unfortunately, I don't have a way to record a sample at the moment. Camera went for a trip over the side of a mountain a few weeks ago. The best way I can describe it is this. The video is perfectly fine. The audio is playing but you can't hear any music, dialogue, or sound effects. It's just a metallic ringing sound. The strange thing is, it plays fine on my computer and my old Asus TF201 Transformer tablet. Just happens8 on my Note 4. And as said, it's only certain movies.
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That's wired. Can you post the media info?
Most of the camcorders records in stereo & not in 5.1. I suspect that you are playing in HW decoder. If the issue is from HW decoder, this may happen. Can you try to manually enable SW audio from audio track selection panel?
If you still have issues, Kindly provide more details.
Which version of the player?
If you are still using 1.7.40, can you try the latest 1.8.x nightly from the website along with custom codec 1.8. If you are in 1.8 uninstall it & try the latest stable 1.7.40.
Kindly collect a bug report immediately after playing the video & upload here.
It will be better if you can upload or share a link of a sample clip. (There are many tools available online to trim the video without recoding)
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