Video problem

[Guest ohio66]

Hello folks this is my first post and I need some help please. I have san francisco rooted with Jellyfish rom which was converted by one of my friends for me.

All is well except I appear to have screwed up the video player some how.

(I used the .wmv file from Win 7 (animals ) to check the standard video player and it worked fine.)

Then I must have done something to the software on my phone.

When I press the video app now all I get is a black screen with a small line of text saying no "videos" and no controls are shown.

The menu button does nothing either.

I can see the icon on the icon opening screen but it is not visible on the menu>settings>applications>manage applications>all screen

I am extremely new at this Android stuff and wonder if anyone can figure out what I have done or better yet how to fix it!

Thanks in advance for your help

[Guest Mushroom_Lord]

Try finding the video file using a file explorer and opening it from there.

Maybe search for it aswell, if you know the filename.

If you can open it from the file explorer, all is well: the chances are its in a folder with a file named ".nomedia", which stops media being scanned in that directory

Edited May 22, 2011 by Mushroom_Lord

[Guest ohio66]

Thanks for that however the video player cannot find any files hence I think the player is at fault.

Am I correct in that video files should be loaded to the SD card for the standard player to play them?

Thanks

[Guest ohio66]

oops forgot to add the video player file is the one which comes with jellyfish but I cannot seem to find it

[Guest Mushroom_Lord]

Yes the videos should be loaded to the SD card for the player to play them.

But as I said earlier...

What I am saying is first to manually find the file on the phone and open it, just to check the video player/video is OK.

So using a file explorer on your phone (eg, astro, filer, file manager, es file esxplorer, etc) manually find where you saved the file and open it.

This should launch the video player...

Get back to me once you've done this, and I'll do over the next bit again (unless you can make sense of my previous post)

[Guest ohio66]

Yes the videos should be loaded to the SD card for the player to play them.

But as I said earlier...

What I am saying is first to manually find the file on the phone and open it, just to check the video player/video is OK.

So using a file explorer on your phone (eg, astro, filer, file manager, es file esxplorer, etc) manually find where you saved the file and open it.

This should launch the video player...

Get back to me once you've done this, and I'll do over the next bit again (unless you can make sense of my previous post)

Hi Mushroom_Lord have searched for "video" player and found nothing using astro. This is wierd as there is definately a little green video icon.

Also searched for "nomedia" file and found the following

/mnt/sdcard/Android/com.google.android.apps.genie.geniewidget.news-content-cache/.nomedia if I tap on it I get a little window saying

"Activity Not Found". file details are;

Name .nomedia

Size 0 bytes

Permission -rw

Can you help me? Sorry to be so stupid, whilst I am reasonable on the PC, Android is very new to me and it may be I have deleted some files in error

Thanks again for your help

[Guest Mushroom_Lord]

Hi Mushroom_Lord have searched for "video" player and found nothing using astro. This is wierd as there is definately a little green video icon.

In astro you are searching for the file name...

Are you SURE there is a video file on your SD card? check again in the pc, just to make sure :P

[Guest ohio66]

In astro you are searching for the file name...

Are you SURE there is a video file on your SD card? check again in the pc, just to make sure :P

I have 6 off .avi files and one .wma video file in the root directory of my SD card is that OK?

[Guest agreenjesus]

I found that android isn't that happy with wmv files, or wma either. I convert all my video to mp4 which play fine.

Mixzing free has a video player, you could try that.

[Guest ohio66]

I found that android isn't that happy with wmv files, or wma either. I convert all my video to mp4 which play fine.

Mixzing free has a video player, you could try that.

After a bit of work today it appears as you pointed out that the phone plays .mp4 files.

I converted my .avi files to Android .mp4 using the Sothink Video Converter (brilliant little program!!)

and stored them in the media folder in a folder I added called Video and all play fine.

So now when I tap the green video icon all videos are shown and when I select one I have a choice of ES Video Player or Movies video player icons to show the selected .mp4 file.

Thanks for your help on this one, I think I have sussed it out now!!

Cheers

[Guest Mushroom_Lord]

After a bit of work today it appears as you pointed out that the phone plays .mp4 files.

I converted my .avi files to Android .mp4 using the Sothink Video Converter (brilliant little program!!)

and stored them in the media folder in a folder I added called Video and all play fine.

So now when I tap the green video icon all videos are shown and when I select one I have a choice of ES Video Player or Movies video player icons to show the selected .mp4 file.

Thanks for your help on this one, I think I have sussed it out now!!

Cheers

Ahahah Im such a bagel I thought you had played the video on your phone and then couldn't get it working again after flashing firmware! :P

No, windows files are virtually impossible to play (but you might have worked a way around it :rolleyes:)

Use FLAC for audio and Mp4 for video.

Avi doesn't play as fast, Imo <_<