Hi,I have a lot of 1080p movies-mkv and all of them are more then 4GB.
I formatted my SD card to NTFS settings.
I copied the movie but when I disconnect my phone,He give me a notice that I must to format the SD card.
How do I solve this issues?
Thanks.
You need to format the SD card using FAT32. I think there is a 4 GB file size limit, but not positive. If so, you'll need to split your .mkv files into two pieces.
I knew this option(=to split the file) but why the hell in this superphone I can't copy a file larger then 4GB to SD or to my memory?
Samsung probably uses FAT32 for compatibility reasons. Pretty sure FAT32 is the standard for SD cards. Maybe the SGS2 can recognize a different format. Definitely won't be NTFS though.
You could also compress the videos.
NTFS is created and owned by Microsoft. They probably want some money if you sell devices with it, if they allow it at all. SGS2 has no problems with larger files if you use an open source file-system like ext4.
Slick_42 said:
NTFS is created and owned by Microsoft. They probably want some money if you sell devices with it, if they allow it at all. SGS2 has no problems with larger files if you use an open source file-system like ext4.
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How do you format a SD card with ext4? Clockwork Recovery? Also, what do you need to do in order for a PC to recognize it?
It's because there are no drivers for reading an NTFS file system. Having a 4gb mkv file and playing it on your SGS2 is a waste anyways. There are no benefits to pumping such high bitrate/resolution unless you're doing HDMI out.
ayosopov said:
I knew this option(=to split the file) but why the hell in this superphone I can't copy a file larger then 4GB to SD or to my memory?
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Here you go:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1123833
Mikroft said:
It's because there are no drivers for reading an NTFS file system. Having a 4gb mkv file and playing it on your SGS2 is a waste anyways. There are no benefits to pumping such high bitrate/resolution unless you're doing HDMI out.
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The benefit is that you don't need to waist time transcoding , you can just drag and drop n play.
There are some solutions how to read ext4 in windows one of them is this reader like explorer , you can also find programs to partition your sdcard to ext4, google is your friend. Oh and format your removable SDcard don't mess with integrated
I watch my movies with subtitles.
I have mkv movie and srt file attached with same name.works fine in my pc.
So I merge the movie with subtitle and split the prepared file in order to copy the movie to my SD card.
I do it with this application:mkvmerge GUI
But when I play the movie in my phone,the stock player or any other player(vplayer,mVideoplayer...) don't show the subtitle.
Why?
Thanks.
stockplayer can't display integrated subs , only external. However mVideoplayer can and should work.
I used this MKVtoolnix 4.9.1 to mux subtitles in and split the movie.
I used MKVtoolnix 4.9.1 to mux subtitles in and split the movie.
It's not show the subs.
I try to do the same with mkv video that smaller than 4G.
Now mVideoplayer shows the subs as opposed to stock player.
ayosopov said:
I watch my movies with subtitles.
I have mkv movie and srt file attached with same name.works fine in my pc.
So I merge the movie with subtitle and split the prepared file in order to copy the movie to my SD card.
I do it with this application:mkvmerge GUI
But when I play the movie in my phone,the stock player or any other player(vplayer,mVideoplayer...) don't show the subtitle.
Why?
Thanks.
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ghost77 said:
stockplayer can't display integrated subs , only external. However mVideoplayer can and should work.
I used this MKVtoolnix 4.9.1 to mux subtitles in and split the movie.
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Not exactly true, i've downloaded a .mvk file (720p HD movie) and .srt file and put them in a folder on my phone, and by using mVideoplayer or Stock player, both plays with subtitle without any problems.. But I have no idea if that's what my rom or anything else i use has an affection to it. just wanted you to know
Edit: I didn't merge them, recoded or whatever it's called to make it work.
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Not exactly true, i've downloaded a .mvk file (720p HD movie) and .srt file and put them in a folder on my phone, and by using mVideoplayer or Stock player, both plays with subtitle without any problems.. But I have no idea if that's what my rom or anything else i use has an affection to it. just wanted you to know
Edit: I didn't merge them, recoded or whatever it's called to make it work.
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You need to reread carefully what problem OP had and my explanation. What i said is 100% true.
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As far as I have understood the Archos 70 (on FAT32) should not be able to play videos larger than 4GB, because that is the limitation of FAT32.
But my Archos does not play files larger than 2GB. I ripped and converted a few dvd's with DVDFab to mp4's and as soon as the resulting file is >2GB (by setting a higher bitrate) I get an error message saying that the file is incomplete or damaged.
Am I overlooking something (I am a newbie) or is something wrong with my Archos ?
Which player are you using? Have you tried moboplayer?
I am using the default video player. Haven't tried another player yet but will do that. First I will make a larger file again to try it out.
This to me sounds more like an .avi limit on fat32 file system - are they avi container ?, if so you need to remux them to something else, .mkv probably best
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This to me sounds more like an .avi limit on fat32 file system - are they avi container ?, if so you need to remux them to something else, .mkv probably best
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I set DVDfab to "DVD Ripper to MP4".
When I open the file with MediaInfo it says "MPEG-4 (Base Media)" as container, so not avi. Or is this the same as avi ?
Update: Although I still would like to hear your reply to my above question (for better understanding), I think it has indeed to do with the container. I ripped and converted again with DVDFab but this time to MKV (not remuxing but ripping and converting again), and now I can play a file larger than 2 GB (in fact the file was around 2,5GB).
I just sold my transformer and one of my largest issues was the tablet could not play h264 movies. They ran very slowly, some apps would play the movie with no sound, others would play the sound but both the video and sound were very slow. Anyways you look at it, the transfomer could not handle bluray quality h264 movies.
Will ICS fix the Android 4gig file limitation?
Brandon
brandonpaz said:
Will ICS fix the Android 4gig file limitation?
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4Gb limitation is not entirely an Android limitation, it's a FAT32 limitation.
Nvidia's demo showed the Transformer Prime playing high profile 1080P video.
Yes Asus Prime will play your h264.
And it can handle 4GB + files
bd85 said:
Yes Asus Prime will play your h264.
And it can handle 4GB + files
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How do you know this? I thought this was a limitation of the fat32 storage formatting?
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How do you know this? I thought this was a limitation of the fat32 storage formatting?
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yes its a fat32 storage limitation.
if you want bigger files (eg a h264 mkv) it must be on your
internal storage (which is ext3/4 formatted) or you have to format
your sd-card as ext3/4, which will make it unreadable from windows.
correct me if im wrong
propaply there is a windows-ext3/4 tool where you could r/w ext partitions?
Any chance HC or ICS can read exFAT? That would solve cross compatibility and file size problems.
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Any chance HC or ICS can read exFAT? That would solve cross compatibility and file size problems.
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Maybe the kernel devs get NTFS working properly...
I would rather go for a ext3/4 tool for windows and make the sd ext3
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How do you know this? I thought this was a limitation of the fat32 storage formatting?
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On the swedish android site swedroid.se forum there are a guy from Asus that can answer questions about Prime.
On Primes internal storage they have no problem with big files, they have tried with a 7gd+ and that work good.
"ANTIFISH" explained it good.
If you use MicroSD the limitations are 4GB because of fat32,
If you connect a hard drive that is NTFS the Prime can mount it and handle files that are bigger than 4GB.
This is way I going to buy the 64GB version, but just because the MicroSD can't handle big files and you have to use the Primes storage for those files.
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On the swedish android site swedroid.se forum there are a guy from Asus that can answer questions about Prime.
On Primes internal storage they have no problem with big files, they have tried with a 7gd+ and that work good.
"ANTIFISH" explained it good.
If you use MicroSD the limitations are 4GB because of fat32,
If you connect a hard drive that is NTFS the Prime can mount it and handle files that are bigger than 4GB.
This is way I going to buy the 64GB version, but just because the MicroSD can't handle big files and you have to use the Primes storage for those files.
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Is it possible to format the MicroSD card as NTFS? Wouldn't this solve the problems while still allow the MicroSD card to be writable/readable in Windows PCs?
I thought the original Transformer could read NTFS. I thought I remembered reading that someone hooks up a usb hard drive to their dock and plays movies off of it and that it was formatted NTFS.
I'm a heavy Linux guy (since '93), but I'd rather have it place nice with NTFS then exFAT. I can r/w NTFS just fine now thanks to ntfs-3g. Just format the sdcard as NTFS when and the problem should be solved for large files.
I've been waiting for the Prime because it can play High Profile 4.0 h.264 video in hardware.
I've already converted my entire movie/tv collection into h.264 files last spring. Took me three months with six computers working 24x7. I have over 2800 movie and tv files to watch now. Should keep me busy for several years.
I've always ran a custom rom on the original and was able to read NTFS with my drive hooked up. Don't know about stock stock..
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I thought the original Transformer could read NTFS. I thought I remembered reading that someone hooks up a usb hard drive to their dock and plays movies off of it and that it was formatted NTFS.
I'm a heavy Linux guy (since '93), but I'd rather have it place nice with NTFS then exFAT. I can r/w NTFS just fine now thanks to ntfs-3g. Just format the sdcard as NTFS when and the problem should be solved for large files.
I've been waiting for the Prime because it can play High Profile 4.0 h.264 video in hardware.
I've already converted my entire movie/tv collection into h.264 files last spring. Took me three months with six computers working 24x7. I have over 2800 movie and tv files to watch now. Should keep me busy for several years.
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hmm now i feel like i want a 64gb one because i want to store bigger files
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hmm now i feel like i want a 64gb one because i want to store bigger files
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I think i will be better to go with the dock and a small usb drive or stick. Instead of 32gb more you can have nearly 200gb more and you can transfer the movies from the disk to the Transformer.
On my original Transformer I was always able to use ES File Explorer to read files from my PC.
I was also able to stream movies and music via this app. I wonder if that would work on the prime also?
My hope is to store more on my nas and less on my tablet!
Brandon
as the extent to i know you can play the video format such as H.264 (HP @ 40Mbps), VC-1 AP, MPEG2, MPEG-4,H.263, Theora, DivX 4/5, XviD HT, , VP8, WMV, Sorenson Spark, Real Video, VP6.
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On my original Transformer I was always able to use ES File Explorer to read files from my PC.
I was also able to stream movies and music via this app. I wonder if that would work on the prime also?
My hope is to store more on my nas and less on my tablet!
Brandon
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Use BSPlayer (lite). It has an integrated file manager with smb support. Another option is to transfer and watch the movie at the same time.
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as the extent to i know you can play the video format such as H.264 (HP @ 40Mbps), VC-1 AP, MPEG2, MPEG-4,H.263, Theora, DivX 4/5, XviD HT, , VP8, WMV, Sorenson Spark, Real Video, VP6.
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What about .mkv files? I know it's just a container and not a video format, but severel devices had problems with them.
I do what i want, because I can.
Flussen said:
What about .mkv files? I know it's just a container and not a video format, but severel devices had problems with them.
I do what i want, because I can.
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Yea I'm curious about this too. Most TV shows and movies you find online in HD nowadays seem to be in .mkv format.
There is a video on YouTube of Prime playing .mkv file (which is said to be h264 high profile 1080p video) without any problems.
how are you doing it?
I use mx.player
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mxtech.videoplayer.ad
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I've used one called rock player and another called moboplayer. Both are free and look great but I'm having audio issues on some files. Can't figure out how to select streams or anything.
Audio is great in software render mode but obviously looks like CRAP ... lol
how big are the files your playing i was trying to put a 7 gig movie on the note and it keeps crashing
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how big are the files your playing i was trying to put a 7 gig movie on the note and it keeps crashing
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The file system that android uses does not support files over 4gigs. If you want something larger, you have to split the file
i thought all 720p videos were over 4gigs?
I have bleach 720p mkv files thats are 280mb and there 30min long. i use to use vital player but Mx video player is my daily use now. it plays everything
With some hackery to the Kernel and ROM the sdcard can be made to run ext4 or NTFS instead of FAT32, allowing files up to the full size of the sdcard. But then you run into issues swapping the sdcard to other devices as not everything supports those filesystems, so might not read it.
I haven't yet bothered to do this with the note.. maybe on my to-do list if I get a bigger SD card
In my experience, only files up to 2gb will play.
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how are you doing it?
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Dice Player is playing all my MKVs regardless of size. I've played files up to 4GB perfectly fine, no audio or lag issues.
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Sorry if this has been covered before. I have searched and couldn't find anything.
I have ordered the SGSIII and a 64GB Micro SD. I would like to get it loaded with content before the phone arrives next week and wondered what the best software / settings would be?
Most of the content will be 720 / 1080P and because of the size of the Micro SD I would like the best quality possible.
Do I even need to convert videos or does the SGSIII support .MKV's?
Thanks for your Help.
The phone supports most of the formats including MKVs so you don't have to convert anything.
If you want the highest quality, use a 1080 file which is something like 7-8 GB and it will play smoothly on the S3.
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It'll play MKVs fine, if you have ones with subs and so forth then Dice Player or MX Player from the Play Store may be better (I prefer Dice myself, does DTS audio and previously the Samsung player has not).
For reference, my video test shoot out for the Galaxy Note:
I use handbrake or Tools4movies, or iVi Pro.
These have presets, but if not S3 plays lots of formats, pick something else what you own, eg Apple TV, WD media player and use that format then can play on both devices
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It'll play MKVs fine, if you have ones with subs and so forth then Dice Player or MX Player from the Play Store may be better (I prefer Dice myself, does DTS audio and previously the Samsung player has not).
For reference, my video test shoot out for the Galaxy Note:
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The stock player supports subs and everything. The subs don't even need to be the same exact name as the video file, the player will give you an option to choose the subtitle file.
I think this is the first stock video player that I'll be sticking with because it's got everything..
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Only problem is that (at least in my case) the SDHC can't hold files above 4Gigs.
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Only problem is that (at least in my case) the SDHC can't hold files above 4Gigs.
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Is that right? Is that because of the file system the SDHC needs to be for the SGSIII to see it? I hadn't thought of that. So all video files will need to be smaller than 4GB?
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Only problem is that (at least in my case) the SDHC can't hold files above 4Gigs.
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You need to reformat the card! Just do a quick google search and there ery easy instructons on how to do it! You will be able to load files onto it that are larger than 4GB!
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Only problem is that (at least in my case) the SDHC can't hold files above 4Gigs.
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Is that right? Is that because of the file system the SDHC needs to be for the SGSIII to see it? I hadn't thought of that. So all video files will need to be smaller than 4GB?
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You need to reformat the card! Just do a quick google search and there ery easy instructons on how to do it! You will be able to load files onto it that are larger than 4GB!
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GS3 supports exFAT format out of the box, which means that it doesn't have the 4 GB file size limitation.
You might have to format your card to exFAT in the computer though.
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Is that right? Is that because of the file system the SDHC needs to be for the SGSIII to see it? I hadn't thought of that. So all video files will need to be smaller than 4GB?
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GS3 supports exFAT format out of the box, which means that it doesn't have the 4 GB file size limitation.
You might have to format your card to exFAT in the computer though.
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Okay, thought exFAT also had a cap of 4Gigs. Will format it later tonight. Thanks for the heads up ;]
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Okay, thought exFAT also had a cap of 4Gigs. Will format it later tonight. Thanks for the heads up ;]
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Sony Tablet S: Can't accept exFAT or Micro SD -> SD adapter, so idk on NTFS.
Samsung Galaxy S: Can't accept either exFAT nor NTFS.
So.... Hoping ICS DOES support either of those..
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Sony Tablet S: Can't accept exFAT or Micro SD -> SD adapter, so idk on NTFS.
Samsung Galaxy S: Can't accept either exFAT nor NTFS.
So.... Hoping ICS DOES support either of those..
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ICS may or may not, but the S3 does, it's confirmed. Check the link below:
http://www.androidnz.net/2012/05/samsung-galaxy-s3-user-manual-causes.html?m=1
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g4rvd4 said:
The stock player supports subs and everything. The subs don't even need to be the same exact name as the video file, the player will give you an option to choose the subtitle file.
I think this is the first stock video player that I'll be sticking with because it's got everything..
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Unless they've dramatically improved the subtitles support the stock players subtitle support will be very average and not well suited to people who watch a lot of subtitled things.
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Unless they've dramatically improved the subtitles support the stock players subtitle support will be very average and not well suited to people who watch a lot of subtitled things.
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Yes, that could be..
But I did see a video of the stock player using subtitles and everything.. Maybe won't give the level of control some people need though.
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Thanks for all your help with this.
Looks like I don't have to bother converting and can put 1080P files over 4GB on to my Micro SD ready for the SGSIII.
how do i play mkv video files without decoding it to mp4 ?
i think any lesser device supports mkv
zonemaster said:
how do i play mkv video files without decoding it to mp4 ?
i think any lesser device supports mkv
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download vlc player or mx player from play store
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download vlc player or mx player from play store
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It doesnt even let me copy the file, windows explorer crashes
File size larger than 4Gb? If so format SD card exfat
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File size larger than 4Gb? If so format SD card exfat
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The file is 1.4 giga and for some reason when I tried to copy the to my s3 it also crashed (in the past I could transfer to the s3)
a lot of my anime and tv shows are in mkv format but they are pretty small in size and i have no trouble playing them with mx player. i might try a larger file and get back to you.
Edit: i transfered a 13.1GB file to my XTZ "The Hobbit, An unexpected Journey 1080p" x264 .mkv file (bearing in mind whenever you transfer something to your XTZ at least in my case, it will warn you the file may need to be converted to play on your device) and i played it using mx player at first it complained i needed a custom codec to play audio because of "dts" which i went and downloaded but the movie was still playing without audio and looked fine. After installing the codec i tried playing the movie again and it was working perfectly.
If you cant transfer the files have you tried a different usb cable to connect your XTZ to your computer or even tried using an sd card reader (if your using an sd card) ?
I'm having the same issues and can't figure it out. Smaller files around 25 mb transfer fine. Larger files like my tv shows, which are 1+ gb, crash windows explorer every time. Yet I can transfer the same files without problem using OTG and a thumbdrive. I'm running stock (4.12) on an SGP312. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thx!
To the OP, mkv files play on the stock player but you wont get any audio if the audio format is AC3. Try downloading the vmplayer from google play. Works for me.
*** Also I tried a different cable and had the same results.
If watching anime, MX Player and BSPlayer are great options. I prefer to use MX Player because it renders perfectly .ass and .saa styled subtitles. Also the Hardware Plus (HW+) decoding works great. Only thing that won't be fully playable would be 10-bit color encodes that are getting popular among subbing groups, as this is due to hardware limitation, and software decoding is slow as heck with that format. So, anime in 8-bit and 1080p should run flawless.
For any other type of vids contained in mkv, MX Player and its HW+ decoder is also the one to go with. I play huge (+10GB) FullHD mkv files with no stuttering at all.
I used XTZ 32GB for all these tests.
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I'm having the same issues and can't figure it out. Smaller files around 25 mb transfer fine. Larger files like my tv shows, which are 1+ gb, crash windows explorer every time. Yet I can transfer the same files without problem using OTG and a thumbdrive. I'm running stock (4.12) on an SGP312. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thx!
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I had no issues transferring large files (up to 8GB) over USB to my SGP312. Might be a driver issue in your Windows version. I am using Windows 8 64bit myself.
That being said, I am now solely using the app Wifi File Transfer Pro to send data wirelessly to my Tablet. It is not as fast as USB, but much more convenient.
Download some other media players for your tablet like VLC, MX players. If they can not help you achieve the goal, then I am afraid that you need to encode your videos into MP4 format via a third party programs inclucing Handbrake or Brorsoft Video Converter.