Hi. I was watching a TV show avi file on my stock GPad stored on a 128GB class 10 Sandisk, when suddenly it stopped working and said something like "Cannot play this video" which was strange as it had played the previous episodes and half of that episode fine. I was using MX Player so thought I'd try the stock video player and it couldn't load the files either. I tried some other files both avi and mkv and no luck either. Then I loaded the video files onto the internal memory and they play fine so its not a problem with the files or the media players. Also all my music and photos that are stored on the SD card play back fine. So why did video files stop working? Anybody else have this issue?
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Hi. I was watching a TV show avi file on my stock GPad stored on a 128GB class 10 Sandisk, when suddenly it stopped working and said something like "Cannot play this video" which was strange as it had played the previous episodes and half of that episode fine. I was using MX Player so thought I'd try the stock video player and it couldn't load the files either. I tried some other files both avi and mkv and no luck either. Then I loaded the video files onto the internal memory and they play fine so its not a problem with the files or the media players. Also all my music and photos that are stored on the SD card play back fine. So why did video files stop working? Anybody else have this issue?
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Yes i have this exact same problem put movies on sd card to watch on flights you watch half way then stops so now only put on device memory and same as you no problems one way is to store on sd card then transfer to device memory to play.all this i suspect is the kit kat update
Try installing the sd card monitor app and see if you are getting a bad removal about the time that the playback problem happens. See the following thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g-pad-83/help/external-sd-card-g-pad-try-to-clarify-t2794258
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I previously owned a Motorola Atrix with all the bells and whistles. I had a ton of music on the SD card synced and converted by windows media player to the rate I wanted. I copied all these files onto my sd card for my new LG Nitro and the media scan hangs.
I did a search and found an app that solved some peoples issue... Rescan Media Root...
This stopped the media scan but none of the apps that use the sd card would work. My media player didnt find music, my gallery wouldnt load, my camera wouldnt take pictures....
I have noticed some MP3 files play and media scan works fine but some others dont....
Has anyone resolved this?
Thanks!!!!
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Have been trying with varying success to use my Galaxy Note II (Demo unit) as a media player. I bought it as I was sick of converting files from mkv that I use with my media players at home (Boxee) to .mp4 so that my iPad can play them back; so wanted a media player that could playback the same range of codecs as a PC / Boxee.
First tried a Nexus 7, worked fine with MX Player was a bit too bulky, but had no problems transferring files to the internal memory and then playing them back so I decided to try another Android device, with the Galaxy Note II seeming perfect at 5.5" with a great screen.
Have inserted an SD card and tried copying files from my PC to the SD Card while it is in the device; some work and some don't giving me an error that the file can't be played back (they are all the same codec). With a few attempts at copying I can get the files over and to work. I just put two files onto the internal memory (that I had previously tried to put on the external SD card and had issues with) and they appear to work!
So it can't be an issue with MX Player not playing those files, has to be something to do with how the files are getting transferred on to the SD Card (or the SD Card itself!).
Have also tried taking the SD card out and putting it into a card reader and copying files over - but similar issues, in fact half the time the files play back fine from the SD card while it is still in the card reader, but after I eject and plug in to the PC they either don't work, or don't appear!
Hey
I just bought a Samsung sd card 64 gb and my tab has issues with it.
I system it says 64 gb when I coy movies via cable on my pc to the sd card and play it on the tab it Says sorry this video could not be played. Dine videos work but if I forward some it stops working.
And vlc player stops working if open when card is on.
Is this tab too weak to handle it or sd card is the problem?
Thanks
I would copy the movie to my Download folder on the device and try playing it there. If it works then yes, it is probably the card. If it still does not work then you are correct that the app is not playing the movie correctly.
For some reason, MX player cant play certain MKV files from the external SD but if I move that file to the internal storage it plays it just fine. Its this ROM/ Android version problem? For example: I have movie 1 and movie 2 on my external sd, Movie 1 plays fine but when I try to play Movie 2 I get the CANT PLAY THIS FILE message. Then I move Movie 2 to the internal storage and plays fine without issues.
Ok decided to make another test.
If I transfer a movie from my PC to the internal storage, the movie plays fine. Then I decided to move the movie to the external SD and tried to play the movie but no luck at all Cant play this file message again.
Moved the movie back to storage and now the movie wont play displaying the same message as in external SD, Cant play this file.
Took out the 64GB SD and mount an old 8GB SD to see if the problem is related to the SD it self.
After mounting the old 8GB SD and passing the movie again, it play fine on the old SD. Moved the movie to internal and worked fine too. Now the weird thing is that i mounted the 64GB SD back, passed the movie and is working fine this time. At this point I dont know what the issue is.
Decided to check the SD formats of each card, the 64gb is in exFAT while the 8bg is in FAT 32. That may explain part of the problem?
Hi! I have this External Hard Drive where I used to watch my movies for more than 2 years on my TCL c815 TV.
The other day, I decided to update my firmware to v715 android 11, I was really impressed with the changes made by the upgrade. However, I noticed that suddenly, video players like MX Player, VLC, Just Player, or most video players cannot see the videos on my Hard Drive., some see the Movie Folder name, but when I opened the folder, there's no movie file to be found. Although the Built-in Media Player can see and play movies, we all know that TCL's media player is not really 100% great as for some reason, the media player overstretched some movie types which sucks that TCL hasn't resolved yet. After more checking, I found out that only Kodi can see & play the movies from my hard drive, but Dolby Vision is not supported
I made re-installed the mentioned video players and made sure it has permission to access my files, etc. But with the same result. Also, whenever I open my MX player and clicked the USB storage, my External Harddrive will suddenly like be forced to eject or something, and cannot totally detect the hard drive. I have to re-plug it to be able to see the files again.
My question is: has anyone experienced this issue before?
Does formatting the drive would do? (Though I don't wanna lose the movies, it's kinda large
Downgrading the firmware work?
The external Hard Drive is Seagate with NTFS format
Thank you to anyone who's going to share their experience and solution!