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Cleo 2010-11-01 11:58 PM

Android and other mobile phones does this movie play?
 
I just found out that .m4v movies don't play on Android phones so now I'm going with .mp4 extension. It's the same movie just a different extension.

I only have an iPhone testing so looking for people Android phones are any other as well to test.
http://www.pameladoll.com/media/join/mobile.mp4

Greenguy 2010-11-02 02:34 AM

I get an error with no useful information :(

Cannot play video
Sorry, this video cannot be played

JK 2010-11-02 05:37 AM

My phone prompts me to download the file, once downloaded it plays fine in the default media player.

Cleo 2010-11-02 08:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Greenie (Post 493365)
I get an error with no useful information :(

Cannot play video
Sorry, this video cannot be played

Oddly out of all the Android uses you are the only one that can't play a mp4. I wonder if it has something to do with Verizon's phone lockdown?

Cathy 2010-11-03 02:56 AM

I had a member who couldn't play any videos on his Andriod .. from memory he was told (I think at a store) that a plug-in was coming out. This was over 6 months ago now though.

RedCherry 2010-11-30 09:28 PM

I get unsupported resolution. I have a Samsung Smart Phone.

Cleo 2010-11-30 10:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RedCherry (Post 494938)
I get unsupported resolution. I have a Samsung Smart Phone.

It looks like the video would need to be in one of these formats.
Video formats: 3GP (MPEG-4). WMV (Advanced Systems Format), AVI (divx), MKV, FLV Audio: FLAC, WAV, Vorbis, MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, MID, AC3, XMF

Odd since it says it supports mpeg-4 which is what this movie is but I guess it doesn't like the mp4 extension.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S

I'm finding that trying to support all the different flavors of Android is impossible.

RedCherry 2010-12-01 03:53 PM

My phone seems to play 320x240 resolution and that is it. You have your movie slightly different, (I tried one that was 355xsomething) and I can not watch it.

So far I've encoded as MPEG-4 AMR_NR 3GPP (*.3gp) and as iphone Mpeg-4 normal format (*.mp4) in the 320x240 size and they play just fine.

If you want to support older phones, my suggestion is a movie that is 320x240.

Useless 2011-01-02 07:54 PM

My Android phone's default browser downloaded the mp4, but played music with no video. I was able to download and view the video with my secondary browser, Skyfire. I installed Skyfire the other day because Android's browser can play YouTube videos, but not the Flash videos on my own site. Skyfire handles them beautifully. I read that the next version of Android with have Flash 10, but those of us with previous versions may never get the update - and my phone is brand new. :(

melloman 2011-01-08 09:22 PM

I have android thru att and most vodeos don't work. I get asked to download flash to view.


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