General :: Modify Low End Android Phones To Play 480p Videos
Apr 9, 2014
I often view my movies and animes on my Nexus 5.. But sometimes , when I try to play those videos on my ipod 4g or HTC desire C .. The wont play smoothly.. I do know it has something to do with hardware limitations on low end devices.. but I think its pretty unfair for these devices to not play atleast an SD 480p stream smoothly! I have seen this feature in the MX player called "Enable Hardware acceleration.."
I don't know what it does , but selecting that option on my HTC desire C makes the videos a bit smoother but still the 480p videos wont play properly. I tried reducing/increasing bitrates and codecs too (mostly H.264/XviD). But still no improvement.I have my phone rooted too.So is there any way to make 480p videos work on desire C and similar devices? I would be really interested to work on it like a project which may target an app or some tweaks with the hardware itself?
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Jan 3, 2013
Since my Internet is too slow to play videos on the youtube app in "HD" and the "no HD" option looks bad, is there any option to force the youtube app to play videos in 480p? I am missing detailed settings for the video quality in every HTML5 environment. Using flash is no alternative for me, cuz its bugged on my device. Maybe there is an alternative YouTube App i haven't already discovered?
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Oct 12, 2012
i recently bought a 6Inch chinies phone from ebay.com. The model number is N9880. I tried playing 720P video and it doesn't play smoothly. So was wondering if its the same case with all the MTK6575 phones ?
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Mar 9, 2012
How to use watch movies using Google play on rooted android phones.
1) Download app called ota rootkeeper from the android marketplace.
2) Open app and protect root.
3) Click "temp unroot".
4) When done watching movie go to ota rootkeeper and restore root.
Every time you want to use Google play you must do this.
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Nov 9, 2012
When I go to some websites, with my HTC Rezound, all I get is an arrow or a box in the middle of a frame. No picture or video.
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Jan 16, 2014
Iv`e managed to download a couple of you tube videos onto my samsung galaxy phone, but some of the videos won`t play, I just get a message saying " can`t play this video". why is this, & is there any way that i can get my phone to play all the videos that I download onto it?
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Oct 1, 2013
Recently bought a TAB which is china made with rockchip processor..... and tried all method to root but no use..... so finally flashed a rooted stock from another site which is pre-rooted and is working fine.... except for the fact that no online videos are playing.... tried in stock browser, chrome, firefox... nothing worked.... also tried various apps like youtube and others..... but same issue....The rom is odexed.....
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Jul 27, 2013
I'm looking for a free app to allow me to play videos in the background. I tried 'Pvstar' but had a glitch with it where it stopped working.
I'm using a HTC one, so there are no issues with processing power.
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Feb 24, 2013
how to play 1080p videos on canvas 2 [a110]rooted
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Aug 15, 2010
All of my old videos from my LG VX8100, Env, and Env touch are all on my SD card...i can watch them, however, there is no sound. on my comp there's sound, and on the old phones there's sound. my eris didn't play the sounds, either.
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Mar 30, 2010
I'm having great difficulty getting my Android application to play videos from the SD card. It doesn't matter what size, bitrate, video format, or any other setting I can think of, neither the emulator nor my G1 will play anything I try to encode. I've also tried a number of videos from the web (various video formats, bitrates, with and without audio tracks, etc.), and none of those work either.
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May 13, 2010
When I am downloading a video from internet, I want to play the video, does Android support this? How can I do it?
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May 27, 2010
I just came across the limitation of VideoView of not being able to play mp4 video files that are wider than 320 pixels. I was wondering how can we overcome these limitations. I am trying to make my app as forgiving as possible, so other than using VideoViews is there another way to play these mp4 videos?
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Sep 19, 2010
I have been browsing you tube with 2.1 and found that most of official music video is filtered in you tube mobile. and I was informed that this is general case for you tube mobile regardless of which handset you use. When I search in non-mobile you tube for videos, I can find them but I can't play them. What happens in froyo when we get flash support? Do we get unlimited access to you tube videos or no luck. I am assuming we can watch those because of flash support but correct me if I am wrong.
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Nov 13, 2009
I have a samsung moment. My sister sends videos from her iphone to my email. I download the attachment, and the video plays on the Moment, but there is no sound.
I've tried a few of the video players on the market and they all play the video, but there's just no sound.
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Jun 1, 2010
I was directed here by the Google Android Devs Group. I'm still not sure if this is the place I need to be. I've been on forum after forum and asked the same question but no one seems to know the answer or will tell me the REAL correct place to find it. I have a Samsung Moment with Android 2.1. I can not get videos that DID play on Android 1.5 to play on 2.1 now with very few exceptions. I'm not just talking about different videos with the same format, I'm talking about some of the exact same videos that did play in 1.5 will no longer play in 2.1. These are almost all AVI files. If Android doesn't support AVI natively with it's own stock media player then why or how was I able to play these videos flawlessly on 1.5? The way I always played the videos was viewing my SD card, tapping the thumbnail of the video I wanted, and it would automatically open up in the phones media player right away. Now the phone locks up and then eventually gives an error message.
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Jul 9, 2009
when accessing a website with embedded YouTube video from within the browser, I can play the video. When accessing it from WebView I haven't been able to do that. Is that not possible or is there anything I do wrong? WebView webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.content_web_view);
webView.loadUrl(" http://strobist.blogspot.com/2009/07/creative-light-launches-with-cla... "); // sample url contains videos
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Jul 6, 2010
My goal is to have multiple mp4's stores in different folders on a server. I want to grab one of the videos from the folder when a certain condition is met. How would I grab a random video file from a particular folder?
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Oct 21, 2010
I love using the Engadget app on my Desire to keep up with daily news, but no matter what I try I cannot watch the embedded videos within the stories.....
The ones that link to YouTube are fine as you can choose the browser or the YouTube app.
But their native videos don't play for me. I currently get the choice of viewing through double twist or streaming media player, both of which say "Sorry, this video cannot be played".
Anyone any idea what format these endgadget videos are in? And how I can get the engadget app to choose a player capable of playing them?
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Nov 19, 2010
I have kept a list of videos in vector {http://a/video1.mp4, http://a/video2.mp4, http://a/video3.mp4, http://a/video4.mp4, http://a/video5.mp4, http://a/video6.mp4} I want to play all the videos one after the another using the Android native player VideoView.
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Dec 18, 2013
I've been using the Galaxy Note 3 for the last 2 months but I still have my iPhone 5. Something that I've noticed is that a lot of videos that play on ios don't play on android. And if I can play the video on my Android then the video is much more laggy and not as clear than on my iPhone 5. These are regular websites like sports websites (nhl, nba, espn etc) or Team Stream app/website, or random other sites that have videos for mobile devices. Sometimes (with my Android) on sites, the video shows the play button, but the video still doesn't play. I don't understand this because on my iPhone 5 the videos play perfectly, load much quicker, play and look smoother, and just look more clear. Or is this just something that android lacks in its OS?
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Nov 10, 2010
My Evo wont play any videos, i've tried through crackle, tru tv app, sprint tv, you tube, on and on and on. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the apps, and updating profiles and software. I am real close to throwing a $200 phone against the wall! (breathe) Has anyone else had this problem? And do you know of any fixes for it? On Sprint TV, i get an error message saying This channell is not currently available. On other sites/apps, I get an error saying only that this video can not be played.
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Jul 11, 2010
I am a CrossFitter and like to download and view videos from the site, but none of them will work. I tried to figure out why through hours of researching and different video players, but I got nothing. The site is Welcome to CrossFit: Forging Elite Fitness and I can't seem to get 90% of the .wmv videos working at all. Sometimes some of them work and I can't figure out why. I thought it was the frame rate because the occasional lower quality one (non-widescreen) work fine. Most are high quality and these are the ones I want to play. Can anyone get this one to work as an example: http://media.crossfit.com/cf-video/Games2010_ Oconnor Speal _Tapering.wmv? I can successfully convert them, but I want to view them right from the web with no adjusting.
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Jan 21, 2010
Spent the whole day on this and still cannot find a solution for this. Here's my short code:
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.videoview);
SurfaceView v = (SurfaceView) findViewById(R.id.surface_view);
holder = v.getHolder(); player = MediaPlayer.create(this, R.raw.psa);
player.setScreenOnWhilePlaying(true); player.setDisplay(holder);
try { player.start(); } catch(Exception e) { e.printStackTrace();}
The video itself is in raw directory. When the application starts I can hear the video's sound but no image is displayed. I've tried using 1.5, 2.0 and 2.1, same thing. I've tried this with different videos, tried converting them using ffmpegX and "Videora Android Converter", nothing helps.
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May 19, 2010
I've had my HTC Desire for a couple of months now and it's truly a great phone! Today my 32Gb micro SD card arrived for it and I set about moving my media onto it. I wanted to see if I could watch movies on my phone so I set about converting one from a full HD .mkv file to an .mp4 using handbrake. I read up on what the best parameters are and stuck to them religiously.I can play other videos on it no problem but when it comes to my own it just says that it can't play them, I've tried Meridian (which seems unstable as hell btw) but that doesn't help. My file is a couple of gigs in size when the encoding is done but I'm not short on space so that's not such an issue. I don't know why the phone is being so picky, can anyone please suggest what I might be doing wrong?
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Aug 27, 2010
IS pretty much the only way to watch them on the EVO is get them on your computer and convert them to mp4 then swap the the SD card?
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Aug 20, 2010
trying to play videos on my DI. I didn't spend a lot of time looking into what it takes to play videos but I assumed it would be pretty straight forward and "drag 'n' drop." I've loaded a .mp4, .avi, and a .mkv. So far, none of them work. I didn't try them all at the same time (mostly because each time I just threw the video on there, assumed it would work, then found out later it didn't) so they have all been different videos, thus shouldn't be corrupted files. What do I need to do to get them to play?
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Jun 5, 2010
I purchased an HTC evo today and I succesfully transfered some music to the evo. But I cant manage to play h264, mp4 or mov videos on the phone. where should I place the video files? root, media, create a video folder, or some where else?
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Jul 3, 2010
Ever since the update I can't play my MP4 videos, which I could play before version 2.2 update. Anyone know why? This is on the Act1 Video App.
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Aug 5, 2010
I've used Handbrake as recommended in this helpful thread (Put Videos on Droid) to convert .avi files to .mp4. I got a "Sorry, this video cannot be played" when I try to play it on my Droid.I also tried downloading an .mp4 file from a YouTube video (as converted by file2hd.com). But I still get that error message.I know this topic has come up before and it usually seems to be the way that the file was converted rather than some kind of setting on the Droid. What else should I try?
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