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  1. 12-06-2010 06:10 PM #1
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    Playing video files from external hard drive!!

    Hi Guys I need some help here (obviously).

    If I save a video file (.avi, .mp4 or whatever) to my external SD I can't seem to play it. I have rock player on my phone. When I save them to the internal SD card they play no problem. Also if I do try to play them through rock player from the external SD my phone cancels the live wall paper. The external card is a 32gb kingson micro SD.

    You help will be appreciated greatly.
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  3. 12-06-2010 06:27 PM #2
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    Hello, have you tried another player other than Rock Player? Besides the logo in the corner, there are better players. I was watching a 720p movie (2GB avi) using the stock player with no problem, movie was stored on external 16gb msd.
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    Yes I only installed rock player to see if it would help. I've tried to play the videos from the external SD on other players including the stock one but to no avail. I have even tried viewing a video from the internal SD then moving it to the external SD to see if it would work but it then says cannot play this file (or something like that) and when I move it back it's as though the file is corrupt.
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    Could be a combo problem of phone and SD card. Are you able to try and playback videos from the SD card using another device?
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    Don't know I haven't tried that but I can store and play music no problem on the external SD.
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    Had a hunch you would be able to do that. The only thing I can think of is to isolate the problem. Check the SD card is capable of video playback off another device, also maybe worth checking to see if a friends sd card will play videos on your phone?
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    I'll have to give it a go sometime tomorrow as I'm at work at the min. Thanks for your help so far!!
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    What class is your external SD card ?

    The higher the class, the faster rate that data can be transferred to/from the card. It might be that it's too low to stream the data at the rate required so it doesn't even try.
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    Could be a class issue as I am 4, the norm is 2 it seems though. You could just be unlucky that it is SD related, am sure it's not the norm or there would be more people complaining.
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    How do I find out what class it is?
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