Sometimes I copy (.wmv) movies to the external SD card and the video player says unsupported format. But when i copy the same movie to the internal SD it plays fine. Strange. Maybe I should let the phone reformat the card but at this point there's all kinds of files on there and I find the file system confusing. I see everything using ROOT EXPLORER but even then its confusing as to what is residing in the phone or on the card. It could be a problem with the video player itself. Can anyone recommend another player to use?
I have rooted my phone, backed up with Titanium, etc. When I install the official froyo (hopefully to be released soon) will it revert the phone back to "stock" Will i have to re-root again? Is there anything else i will have to do over?
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What brand sd card and where did you buy it?
File system is pretty simple. /sd is internal storage. /sd/sdcard is external.
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micro sd card
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What brand sd card and where did you buy it?
File system is pretty simple. /sd is internal storage. /sd/sdcard is external.
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I dont really know the make. It says MICRO SD on it, 16GB, bought it off ebay, it worked fine in my previous phone I think. Looking at the card thru the file manager I see a whole bunch of directories, not sure how they got there. I don't think its the card itself, I think it has something to do with the OS or maybe the compression rate of the video or something else. I have a lower resolution .wmv movie on the card and that one plays fine....weird...but the movies that play were done a long time ago formatted for my Dash 3G. I am converting these movies off the origional DVD. I tried using another player and it did the same thing. The .wmv movies are about 1 gig and they look beautiful so putting them on the card makes sense. I'll try playing with the conversion settings and other file formats...I'll probably figure it out.
Thanks for the info on the file system.
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The videos app says that it will enable you to play H.264 and 3gp movies from your SD card but I have tried that and so far no luck. So there must be other specific conversion settings it requires to work.
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I dont really know the make. It says MICRO SD on it, 16GB, bought it off ebay, it worked fine in my previous phone I think. Looking at the card thru the file manager I see a whole bunch of directories, not sure how they got there. I don't think its the card itself, I think it has something to do with the OS or maybe the compression rate of the video or something else. I have a lower resolution .wmv movie on the card and that one plays fine....weird...but the movies that play were done a long time ago formatted for my Dash 3G. I am converting these movies off the origional DVD. I tried using another player and it did the same thing. The .wmv movies are about 1 gig and they look beautiful so putting them on the card makes sense. I'll try playing with the conversion settings and other file formats...I'll probably figure it out.
Thanks for the info on the file system.
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Your original post says that sometimes the same vids play from internal memory but not from the card. This points to the card as the culprit - not the format of the video.
Ebay purchased cards are usually fakes or poor quality and are notorious for unpredictable results.
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A couple of the older ones I have do read off the SD card, but none of my recently converted videos do. I am still play around with different conversions. I will find one that works, eventually.
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I have to admit you were right.....I got a message from the phone saying my SD card was corrupted..so i let the phone format it. The phone is now running much better and i can run movies off the card now with Arc Media and VPlayer. I think Vplayer is now my favorite with its on screen gesture controls and luminecense setting. Copying the big movies from my computer to the card is still a little iffy. While copying a 1 gig movie to the card for instance, the progress bar on the computer will appear to hang, but if i give it enough time then disconnect and reconnect to the computer I discover the movie actually copied to the card. Sometimes I have to reboot the phone in order to reconnect. It does better with smaller files. Maybe 2.2 will fix this issue....thanks again.;
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Hello.
I am trying to copy-paste my quite extensive mp3-collection to my Galaxy S. Its about 6GB.
The problem is that I don't want to use Kies as it mucks up all my ID3-Tags...at least it did the first time I tried it.
I just put the phone in Mass Storage mode and tried to copy-paste the Mp3's to the /music folder on the external SD. When I tried to let it copy all together I disconnected the phone properly (safely remove, then disc. from the screen) and let the media scanner run...it didn't find anything. When I connected it to the PC again I saw that the /music folder was empty and the /Lost.dir folder was 6 GB. So the files probably ended up there somehow.
Afterwards I tried copying the folders with my mp3s one by one, disconnecting the phone after every one and letting it search again and again and it worked fine for the first 3 GB...after one more copy paste it lost the new folder and wiped half of the rest which were working fine by then along with it.
I also tried doubletwist and WMP, same problem there.
I'm running Froyo.
Thanks for reading. Any ideas?
When you say you have tried WMP, have you sync'ed them to the card as you would do a mp3 player? It has never failed on me in the past so not sure what else to advise.
Also you may have a corrupt SD card or a fake? Make a backup of the files you have on it at present, then format the card, replace the back'ed up files and try again. There are allot of fake cards sold on ebay and there are some programs about that give diagnostics on cards so might be worth running one to see the genuine capacity and/or to see if there is any corruption.
Yep, I tried syncing as with a normal MP3-Player. Its really weird as it does this only with music and it also does it retroactively...it has lead me to believe that theres some kind of problem with the media scanner.
The card is bought off ebay, but its original Kingston...it was sealed up and everything. I formatted it yesterday just to be sure...didn't bring up any errors...I'll take a look at those programs you mentioned though.
Thanks.
Hmm... If it's only happening with music it might be worth checking to see if there is any DRM on the music files as well. If there is any you'll need to run them through a convertor to remove this.
My music files all AAC+ moved to external SD card .
New Folder on SD card named SONGS and placed all music in that folder via USB mass storage mode .
But all my music is DRM free .
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i have a 32gb kingston micro sd card installed on my device.
i have several movies in .avi format and when i transfer the movies to the SD card, the video player cant play the file at all. however these videos play perfectly on my computer.
could anyone help me to resolve this problem?
did you try any other apps? for example, rockplayer, mvideoplayer, arcmedia player, V player..etc. im assuming ur using the stock video app lol
Your micro sd 32gb probability is fake.
You have bay to ebay?
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I have tried other apps ok the market and still no luck.
My micro sd card is legit from a major computer store.
I have not tried to plug my device in with the memory card yet and tried to transfer the movies this way? As i have been using the micro sd to sd card adapter and using the sd card port on my computer, could this make a differance?
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karan
no, it couldn`t.
if you still can`t play those files with diff. video players that means your problem may not be from sd card. Did u convert those files before transfering them to your sd.card ?
try downloading this file. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PZTX5U36 and test it .
can you play it ? try rock player universal
i have found the solution! =)
i found that when i transfer the files to the micro sd card through the sd card adapter, the files came corrput
however if i transfered the files with the micro sd card in the phone itself, the movies played
thanks for your help
karan
Hi guys,
this might be really noobish question, but I hear a lot people talking about partitioning their SD card and I dont really understand what that means.. I tried to search, but all I could find were a ways of doing it rather than what it really is.
Now the issue: I have SGS with 32gb nokia class 2 SD card. So far I had only one issue with the card and that is when I put video files on it (no matter what format mp4, avi, mvk and so on) there is always a point in the video, when the it shows a lagy squared-like screen and skips like 1-3 minutes of video which really bugs me :/. Also, sometimes when I put flv files on it, they just stop after playing for some time (lag) and only audio goes on with video stuck.
I never had the problem when putting the files on internal SD card, they just play along..
as for the partitioning, should I partition ? Some simple definiton would be helpfull What are the benefits/risk of it ?
thank you very much !!!
the video lag and the skipping maybe do to the fact that your sd card is class2 or it's ajust an older model don't know for sure i have a 16 gb class6 sdhc and i'm playing 720p video file downloaded from youtube and mkv and other stuff without any lag borrow from one of your friend an sd card and see if there's any difference as for partitioning your card i don't see the point in doing that
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the video lag and the skipping maybe do to the fact that your sd card is class2 or it's ajust an older model don't know for sure i have a 16 gb class6 sdhc and i'm playing 720p video file downloaded from youtube and mkv and other stuff without any lag borrow from one of your friend an sd card and see if there's any difference as for partitioning your card i don't see the point in doing that
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well I dont think that would be the case, because it handles saving 720p video from camera and than playing it without problems. The issue is not lagging, its more like skipping the part of a movie or, when playing flash not finishing the movie...
do you think I should try to return the card ? Because I really cant use a card for movies and thats pretty much everything beside music I have it for..
For some reason everytime I try to transfer tv shows or movies to the phone, both internal or external memory, it won't transfer and says that the windows explorer has stopped working. Every single time this happens no matter how many times i try. And it only happens for some files. Other files will transfer perfectly no matter the size of the files.
Another issue is that when I do transfer the files, even though I have used some space it will still say that the space is the same as before.
I'm on windows 7 64 bit.
Any ideas how to fix?
weird problem your having... how big in size are these tv shows ?? do you have an external sd card... if so plug that in to the pc and copy them to that, then back in the phone and move to phone memory or leave on the external card...
or you can just stream them from your pc, using built in 'allshare' app or a range of others found on the market
Each show is about 150-175 mb. The issue is that some shows will completely transfer without any problems. I've transfered 4 GB altogether at once but other shows won't do it. But then other shows will not even start transfer but immediately say that windows explorer has stopped working. I've tried transferring to both external and internal but they both give me the same problem.
This also only seems to be an issue with videos as I've never had any trouble with music.
No roots, lagfix, nothing, just stock 2.2.1
Sounds more like a problem with your computer. Try copying the shows that give you trouble to a memory stick or something to test.
Can you playback MKV's with MX Player on the HD+?
while i do not have the nook hd+(yet),
i have the nook tablet and mkv's work fine on that, do not see why it would be different on the hd+
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Can you playback MKV's with MX Player on the HD+?
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Don't know for MX Player but XBMC plays MKV fine
I stop using MX player a long time ago, I use BSplayer. I know it play mkv and usually play much smoother than MX player. Thus the reason I switch. And I'm talking about 1080p MKV files.
Yep, I second that. BS Player will play 1080p MKV with hardware acceleration. Whereas the few files I tried with MX Player will only play back with software codec. From my short testing, both players produced decent quality. BS Player won me over with its capability to seamlessly access files on network shares.
Thanks ill have to try this BS player out
Defiantly my new favorite app!! SMB media flawlessy streaming 1080p MKV to my phone:highfive:
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Yep, I second that. BS Player will play 1080p MKV with hardware acceleration. Whereas the few files I tried with MX Player will only play back with software codec. From my short testing, both players produced decent quality. BS Player won me over with its capability to seamlessly access files on network shares.
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yep. love bsplayer and it works fine with the tablet. even software decoding works fine.
Anybody else had trouble with Nook HD+ crashing when playing videos off high-storage SD cards?
On my Nook HD+ playing back large HD videos like 1080p MKV files off 32GB SD card froze the whole thing multiple times while playing from local storage works without a problem.
I'll give BSPlayer a try and see if problem happens there too.
Freezing or stutter usually means a few things.
sd card speed slow and unable to read it fast enough
the cpu is slow and unable to keep up.
your movie is too high bitrate or not supporting hw decode, this usuallly lead to one of the two above problem.
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Freezing or stutter usually means a few things.
sd card speed slow and unable to read it fast enough
the cpu is slow and unable to keep up.
your movie is too high bitrate or not supporting hw decode, this usuallly lead to one of the two above problem.
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It's not the playback freezing but the whole device locking up and usually requiring a hard reset with sleep and home button.
What's weird is that videos seem to play fine off my 8GB SD card and internal storage so I'm wondering if Nook has problem with Class 10 cards.
The videos are indeed high-bitrate but it happens for videos played by both hardware and software decoding.
I'm hoping that it's just a software thing and a custom ROM would be able to alleviate the issue since SD card support is one the main reason I chose Nook instead of Kindle.
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It's not the playback freezing but the whole device locking up and usually requiring a hard reset with sleep and home button.
What's weird is that videos seem to play fine off my 8GB SD card and internal storage so I'm wondering if Nook has problem with Class 10 cards.
The videos are indeed high-bitrate but it happens for videos played by both hardware and software decoding.
I'm hoping that it's just a software thing and a custom ROM would be able to alleviate the issue since SD card support is one the main reason I chose Nook instead of Kindle.
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It could be the format of the card. All external SD come formatted fat32. And internal media is formatted ext4. Ext4 is better for videos, mainly for file size, but it might be for speed also. When the HD+ first detects a new card, it gives you the option to format it. If you say yes, it formats it ext4. The only problem with doing that is then the SD is not directly readable in Windows PC's. But you can still read with it MTP.
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FAT32 also have file size limitation of 4GB. So, it's not a very good choice for putting 1080p movie on there. There is also exFAT which is like a cross between FAT32 and NTFS. some people call it FAT64. There aren't much info on exFAT but Nook does support exFAT also. You can put larger file size there. I'm not sure about its performance but I can tell on that there aren't much software that support it. Especially recovery software. Say if you have corruption on FAT32 or NTFS, there are tons of software that can help you recover some if not most files, but exFAT recovery software is like NULL.
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It could be the format of the card. All external SD come formatted fat32. And internal media is formatted ext4. Ext4 is better for videos, mainly for file size, but it might be for speed also. When the HD+ first detects a new card, it gives you the option to format it. If you say yes, it formats it ext4. The only problem with doing that is then the SD is not directly readable in Windows PC's. But you can still read with it MTP.
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Actually, I found that when Nook HD+ asks to format the card, it formats it in ExFAT.
I'll be trying it out again, but the 8GB card that works fine is also ExFAT and I formatted both cards with Nook's format SD card feature.
It's really weird since I've thought about many different variables, but can't find the distinguishing factor 32GB SD card has except for its size, and class speed.
Not all card are created equal, it's simple as that.
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Actually, I found that when Nook HD+ asks to format the card, it formats it in ExFAT.
I'll be trying it out again, but the 8GB card that works fine is also ExFAT and I formatted both cards with Nook's format SD card feature.
It's really weird since I've thought about many different variables, but can't find the distinguishing factor 32GB SD card has except for its size, and class speed.
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Hm... I stand corrected. I never had it format mine since I had data on it and I wanted to keep it FAT32. I guess I will have to correct my HD+ tips thread. Does Windows XP natively read ExFAT!
Edit: I just updated my tips thread to put this corrected information on it. I found that Windows XP won't read it natively but will after applying a patch from Microsoft.
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Does Windows XP natively read ExFAT!
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NO