Guys,
Having now got my Samsung TV set up wirelessly I thought I would try AllShare on the SGSII and DLNA a few video files across.
However, what I am finding is AllShare does not seek out all movie files stored on either the internal SD or External_SD. It lists video's you have created using the default camera App.
Has anyone found a way to get AllShare to display movies you have transferred onto the SGSII?
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Sorted - See Post 7.
I seriously can not believe no one is interested in finding out why we can not display all video/photo and audio files.
I tried this on my Tab and sure enough Allshare does display other video files not stored in the camera folder, so it begs the question why is it the SGSII does not allow you to display them?
If this is correct and again I fail to see it's accuracy that would mean you can not show a movie you have on your external_sd card via Allshare. That sounds utterly preposterous.
Either I am missing something so simple it is eluding me or there is a problem with Allshare's ability in searching for and displaying all supported file's.
I don't want this topic to die without first a fight but if no one replies it will fold away in the depth's of xda-devs.
The Allshare apps on my SGSII has no problems listing videos not inside DCIM.
I've installed the Allshare app on my HTPC (Win7). Using the app on teh SGSII I'm able to playback videos in folder /sdcard/Movies (that's the internal card, don't have an external card to test with)
Mujja said:
The Allshare apps on my SGSII has no problems listing videos not inside DCIM.
I've installed the Allshare app on my HTPC (Win7). Using the app on teh SGSII I'm able to playback videos in folder /sdcard/Movies (that's the internal card, don't have an external card to test with)
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Thanks for replying, appreciated.
Well I am pleased to hear you can display and play other video media, this is how it should be.
Now if I can get someone to test the external sd as well then I will know if I have a problem with my Allshare.
Meanwhile I will try copying a few video's to the internal sd/movies folder and see if Allshare can pick them up. If so then it may be that Allshare does not list files on the external sd.
Weird as the Tab does.
Received my SD card today and moved the videos folder over from internal to external card. Allshare still shows the videos in the My Device tab > Videos view
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Mujja said:
Received my SD card today and moved the videos folder over from internal to external card. Allshare still shows the videos in the My Device tab > Videos view
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Can you provide an accurate naming and directory of exactly where on the external_sd card they are stored please.
Maybe it's because I have mine buried too deep in the card for Allshare to pick them up.
As in say ~ sdcard/external_sd/movies/
/external_sd/Video/
In the Video folder I have mkvs and avi which I copied over.
Allshare could see them in KDD and now KE2 firmware. Didn't test with other firmwares.
Mujja said:
/external_sd/Video/
In the Video folder I have mkvs and avi which I copied over.
Allshare could see them in KDD and now KE2 firmware. Didn't test with other firmwares.
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That worked a treat.... Thanks, sorted.
What did you have to do, rename the Movies folder to Video?
No... When I tried that it still didn't display anything.
However when I moved the Movies folder to the root it then listed the files.
So weird.... naming the folder to Video's in the root displays nothing
Having the folder name Movies not in the root displays nothing.
.. but having the folder name Movies in the root works.
Talk about confusing.....
My next issue is with Music.
Any music in a folder named Music either in the root on the external_sd or directly in sdcard/ does not display anything inside that folder.
Where do you have your music stored and under what name?
Music is stored in /sdcard/Music/Artist/Album/track.mp3 and Allshare can see it all no problem.
I sync my music using WMP12 and it creates the Music folder and all subfolders. Works manually too.
Mujja said:
Music is stored in /sdcard/Music/Artist/Album/track.mp3 and Allshare can see it all no problem.
I sync my music using WMP12 and it creates the Music folder and all subfolders. Works manually too.
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Weird..... that is where I stored my folder named Music but Allshare finds nothing.
I'll have a closer look later... Just about to go back into theatre for this mornings Ops.
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Well... I found the time in the end and what a surprise it is...
If I place the music where you did in sdcard/music/ Allshare does not display it.
But.. if I place it in sdcard/media/ the music files are then picked up?
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I have some mp4 movie files, but I don't know where to place em
Should I place em in the usbstorage folder or the dcim/camera folder?
rantzzz said:
I have some mp4 movie files, but I don't know where to place em
Should I place em in the usbstorage folder or the dcim/camera folder?
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Doesn't matter....you put them anywhere, the phone is smart to pick those automatically. For better file management, I'd advise you to create a Video folder and have those placed under it.
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Just put them anywhere in the sdcard or external_sd folders and media scanner will pick it up.
deepsleo said:
Doesn't matter....you put them anywhere, the phone is smart to pick those automatically. For better file management, I'd advise you to create a Video folder and have those placed under it.
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This. I have mine in a folder on the internal SD under video.
But does the default video player in the phone lists the videos after media scanning is complete?
Apparently mine doesn't, unless I put them in the dcim/camera folder. It will then be listed along with all the videos I have shot
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But does the default video player in the phone lists the videos after media scanning is complete?
Apparently mine doesn't, unless I put them in the dcim/camera folder. It will then be listed along with all the videos I have shot
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Thats wrong. I made a Video folder on external sd card .
Media scan /default video player picks them up no problem .
jje
JJEgan said:
Thats wrong. I made a Video folder on external sd card .
Media scan /default video player picks them up no problem .
jje
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Yeah, the videos have appeared under the default video player
Rocks! Thanks everyone!
Hi guys/gals I have a question does anybody know where the HTC Watch app downloads movie files that youve purchased? Im not sure if the app actually downloads the files to your phone, or if it just streams them over the net? The only reason im asking is because I would like to take all of my movies files and move them to that location so I can use the HTC Watch app to play my files. When I open up the HTC Watch app it says "No Videos Found" because I havent purchased any movies, but is there a folder I can put my files in so that they show up when I launch the app? Right now the only way to play my 3d movies with the stock player is to go into gallery find my movie and then play it but I would much rather just launch a dedicated media player app that displays all my movies files and pick which one I want to watch. I dunno maybe this cant be done lol. Thanks
I haven't downloaded any movies but the green hornet is stored on your SD card in .data---htcwatch---preloaded movies. I put some of my 3s movies that I downloaded from some websites but i still couldn't play them with the HTC watch app after moving them to that folder.
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Hmm ok thanks alot! Maybe theyre encoded differently so the Watch app recognizes them.
If you can't find them on the SD, you could try /system/etc - I found the books in there.
I too am interested in figuring out how to get HTC Watch to locate, show , nd play my own movies.
I know that for the HTC Reader app that placing your own epub files into sdcard/Digital Editions will cause them to show up in the HTC app. Surely there is a similar technique for movies and HTC Watch
All HTC Watch movie files are downloaded to a hidden folder on the sd card
Use root explorer and navigate to the root of sd card, then open .data then HtcWatch folder, inside that folder will be file, preload_movies and preloads.
Open the files folder, inside there will be your downloaded files.
The downloads are in .eny format, which i have not yet been able to find what exactly can open it, besides the Htc watch player.
anyway, best of luck and let us all know if you find what mvie players can open .eny files, or at least convert them.
If you plug your phone into windows or mac be sure to enable "show hidden files"
Recently i have been experiencing that my memory card was not reading only my music mp3 files..... Can someone help me with this plz?
I think you need to elaborate a bit more as I'm not entirely sure what your situation is. Naturally your sdcard has different types of files on it and not just mp3s, mp4s etc. Where are you trying to view your music files?
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My Memory card is not reading my existing mp3 files.
RTContent said:
I think you need to elaborate a bit more as I'm not entirely sure what your situation is. Naturally your sdcard has different types of files on it and not just mp3s, mp4s etc. Where are you trying to view your music files?
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I have some music players like Ubermusic, Minilyrics players in my phone, suddenly these days my memory card is not reading my existing .mp3 files, but if i download any mp3 from the internet, i can see the downloaded mp3s in the music players and it works too, its weird, i dont know what to say.. plz help me with this issue...
Have you tried deleting the files off your phone and restoring from known working files?
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Maybe the music indexing service that runs on boot hasn't indexed those files? Since he's able to view new files, it would seem that it's indexing these new files, but for some reason isn't doing the same for the already existing files. My friend's HTC One X had a similar issue and I fixed it by going to Manage apps>All and clearing data of the app that contained the Android indexing service. I forgot what it was called though. If anyone knows the name you can tell him to try to clear it's data, reboot and leave his phone untouched for 5-7 minutes.
1-backup data and music
2-clear temp data
3-format memory in fat32
4-reapet copy music files in memory
5-restart phone
6-wait for find music with player
check and play your musics for any players...
This is an old Android issue: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4314
I had this problem with my S2 as well; I connect my phone with usb debugging checked and copy paste all my music from the music folder on my PC to the music folder on my SD card.
I keep getting the error, " sorry, the player does not support this type of audio file"
Is there anyway to fix this or am I doing something wrong? The music is in mp3 format.
Can somebody please help me out? Thanks
Usb Debugging has nothing to do with normal file transfer.
What type of file extension are you trying to copy? Normal mp3 or some less common and/or proprietary format such as aac, flac, wma, ...
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they are all MP3 format
Try copying your files to the phone throug Airdroid or another file transfer app.
Alternatively if you're rooted, you can use the Easy UMS app to mount your external sdcard on the computer.
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I am rooted, where would I find the easy ums app? For now i will try using airdroid
So i copied and pasted my music to the sd card. Now when i try to play files, some work and some still give the same error message. Also when I click on a song, it automatically starts shuffling through the list but only stays on each song for a second. Im stumped!
I tried Isyncr and Isyncr wifi, both did not work. It shows that it has transferred 500 files but when I go to the music, theres only about 25 files there. The Isyncr process took about 25 minutes and it showed every song that was copied. But when i looked in the music and syncr folder, there were only about 25 songs, I dont understand why the rest were not copied????
It's to do with the media scanner not running. Download rescan media from market and run it and then give it a minute and try going back to music again and they should work. I don't know if there is a bug in the firmware but it's annoying.
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It's to do with the media scanner not running. Download rescan media from market and run it and then give it a minute and try going back to music again and they should work. I don't know if there is a bug in the firmware but it's annoying.
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thank you, i will try that next
I have that same problem...i can listen music drom my files explorer but not all songs in stock music player...i tried media scanner but that doesnt work. its rooted phone, base samsung 4.04.. latest siyah.
solution?
dankantar said:
I have that same problem...i can listen music drom my files explorer but not all songs in stock music player...i tried media scanner but that doesnt work. its rooted phone, base samsung 4.04.. latest siyah.
solution?
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Yes, I have exactly the same problems for a few of my mp3 files.
I maybe due to some permission issue with the files? Strangely, I can play
all the problematic mp3s directly from the file explorer but not from the player
or any other media players including winamp, real, BS Player etc.
Anyone got a solution for this?
Do the mp3 files have the same properties regarding bitrate...maybe it cannot play files with 320kbps or more or files vith VBR(varibile bit rate)
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Music on internal sd card not ext sd card ???
jje
klemenSLO said:
Do the mp3 files have the same properties regarding bitrate...maybe it cannot play files with 320kbps or more or files vith VBR(varibile bit rate)
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Well, no, they are all either 128k or 192k.
I also converted some flv files to mp3 with Real converter, the player also cannot play these converted mp3.
I need help and this has been driving me nuts for the past hour of two. I placed 2 new music albums to my internal SD card (/storage/sdcard0/Music) and for some reason my music player cannot detect them. What I did is I checked the entire Music folder for any .nomedia but there is none. I downloaded a SD scan app and still the same.
The last resort i did is i deleted everything from my music folder and transferred everything again from PC to the S3. Now after doing that, the new albums appeared BUT one of the older albums is not showing! I checked the folder via Root Explorer and MyFiles and the album and songs are in my internal SD card. Like I said in my first statement, these albums/songs are located in just one folder.
Same result if I use the stock music app or a third party app like N7.
I am now frustrated and lost
I am currently using LI8.
Try clearing data in "MediaScanner" in the applications manager, and then rebooting. Give it a little while as it can take a few minutes to scan the entire phone.
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I need help and this has been driving me nuts for the past hour of two. I placed 2 new music albums to my internal SD card (/storage/sdcard0/Music) and for some reason my music player cannot detect them. What I did is I checked the entire Music folder for any .nomedia but there is none. I downloaded a SD scan app and still the same.
The last resort i did is i deleted everything from my music folder and transferred everything again from PC to the S3. Now after doing that, the new albums appeared BUT one of the older albums is not showing! I checked the folder via Root Explorer and MyFiles and the album and songs are in my internal SD card. Like I said in my first statement, these albums/songs are located in just one folder.
Same result if I use the stock music app or a third party app like N7.
I am now frustrated and lost
I am currently using LI8.
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Try putting the music somewhere else on your SD, before deleting caches and data... If that doesn't work, you can always just delete the cache of your music player, that usually works, but try not to delete the Media Scanner's Cache, that means it will take longer to boot and get to the launcher...
If you want, you could also just download Google Play Music, it's better than Samsung's Music player (Because Music Player leaves a second out of the music..) and Play Music is much smoother than Sammy's..
Try one of those and if it still doesn't work, do the Media Scanner Cache.
Anyways, hope I could help you!
You can also decrease the scanning times by using the SD watcher mod here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28795745&postcount=2
Thanks! I'll try all the options provided and will let everyone know the results.
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