galaxy tab 7.7 / Unable to locate compatible media player for item format

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galaxy tab 7.7 / Unable to locate compatible media player for item format

Started 2 months ago by carpediem8 (4 posts) (2 voices)
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Posted 2 months ago

carpediem8
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Hello,
I have galaxy tab 7.7 with Honeycomb. I can play avi files with the default player but when i try to play an avi file from my laptop through skifta it replies :
Unable to locate compatible media player for item format

I have read that skifta only transfers the media and the files open/play with the player that device has.
Do i have to make some other settings at skifta so that it plays avi files concerning that avi files can be played at galaxy tab 7.7 from sd or internal store.

Thank you in advance!

P.S
Some problem with htc desire also!!
Posted 2 months ago

Conal
Skifta Engineer

aha! Right - so this is a great 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

Let me know how you get on ;-)
Posted 2 months ago

carpediem8
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Thank you very much for your quick reply! I have tested all of the players.Finally it works with Mx Video Player which i found best for supporting greek subtitles (also srt) But the problem is that is really really slow till it starts and afterwards sometimes is slow...Last year i had a galaxy tab 7 and when i used skifta it was very fast and worked perfect. Do you think it is a version of skifta that makes the different?
Posted 2 months ago

Conal
Skifta Engineer

My expectation is that this is the bitrate of the file or the resolution. Try with several different videos and see if it's the same for all of them

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