fistofferson
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I just discovered Skifta today and I'm quite impressed with it so far, but I'm having difficulty streaming certain files from my iMac (10.5.8) to my Galaxy S2 (2.3.6). It plays most files alright, but for some reason it doesn't want to play some of my .avi files even though I can put the same files on the SD card on my phone and they will play. I've tried using MX Video player and the native player with no luck and I've also tried restarting everything. Any ideas?
Thanks!
As is happens, yes I do ;-)
Ask the question "What's an AVI?"
We'll, it's a container for either/both a audio and video stream. Each of these streams has a codec, such as xvid, divx, mpeg, h264, mp3, wav, etv. Certain media players only support certain codecs.
This can make AVI's a difficult filetype to work with (much like MKV which is also a container format). Other filetypes such as mov and mp4 are much more clearly defined from a codec point of view. Android (pre ice cream sandwich) supports Mp4 by default and little else.
But - there are tools that allow you to identify the codecs contained within a file, such as Gspot ( http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ ) so that you can find a suitable media player.
So what's the answer to your issue? You probably want to install a media player that provides support for a wide range of codecs.
Players I like:
rockplayer lite
moboplayer
qqplayer
dice player
Identify the codecs using Gspot to find out what's in them there AVIs and you'll be on the right path to resolving your problem.
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