Hey, every time I try to transfer MKV files above 4GB, it fails at the very end stating it has became unresponsive.
This problem has been occuring on two individual WiFi only tablets I've owned, and it doesn't matter if you convert the files to .avi, or take away the file extension all together. Or zip them, as a matter of fact.
Can anyone shed any light on this? I'm sure I can't be the only one unable to transfer high def videos across. I've tried dragging and dropping, and through Kies.
Many thanks, I'm hoping someone has a solution, I've been searching for days!
Dan.
Short: You can't using Kies or the Windows Explorer (MTP). Why? I don't know. It's not a file system limitation like the 4GB max file size on FAT32 formated sd-cards.
You can either "adb push" the file via USB debugging mode or use Wifi.
For adb please use google or the forum search. You have to get the sdk from developer.android.com and push the file with a command prompt "adb push <source> <target>".
Wifi: put the file in a shared folder and connect to you PC with an app like ES File Explorer and copy the file to your tablet. Transfering files >4GB over wifi will take a while but it will copy.
I'll just ADB it, I never thought of that. Thanks.
ADB didn't really work, it just sat there unresponsive all night. Any other suggestions? Thanks.
I wonder if Galaxy Tab 10.1 can play well high profile HD video (720 or 1080) because of the Tegra 2 power. And I think if you want to transfer a >4Gb file, you have to use a kernel supports NTFS
I don't know why it won' transfer, but have you considered splitting the file into smaller? Also, how many hours long is that video that its a profile low enough for the tab to play and getting all the way to 4gb?
mkvtoolnix can split mkv easily with not quality loss
Because SOME (like Samsung's Android devices... ) Linux based Android uses Windows based file system FAT32 ...
But Android can handle files larger than 4 GB with ext3 or ext4 Linux file system like Archos prefers ... Archos even support NTFS under Android ...
So someone must implement the ext3 /ext4 or NTFS file system of Archos to the Samsung's devices so that MTP mode supports large files...
I can't transfer MKVs of any size to the tab. The Windows Explorer crashes evrytime, again independent of the size. I've tried transferring 100mb videos as well! Please help!
Renaming the file getting rid of the extension doesn't help either. Cause the tab changes permissions of the file which makes it unplayable even on DicePlayer (it displays a lock).
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Hi friend, Memory cards on Android systems have a limit of 4GB per file.It is not a limit of memory cards on Android but a limit of the FAT32 file system itself. The `solution` usually is to split the files into parts and have the software know to glue it back together again for you.
you can split files <4GB and split 2-3 files.Split files method you can see my blog
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how do i go about opening the videos larger than 2gb?
everytime i try to open them on windows 7 windows media player says the usual; an error occured
vlc says:
No suitable decoder module: VLC does not support the audio or video format "undf". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this. . .
help please
Use media player classic. Plays pretty much everything. Ontop of that or rather before that you should download cccp. Just google it. Cccp = combined community codec package.
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thanks but it didnt work :/ am i the only one having this issue?
i guess im the only one lol. i have tried it on my desktop and laptop??
HI i now the problem it's because andoroid recognises files larger then 2GB ad file with size under zero. so file about 4GB (limit od fat32) is seen as almost (minus) -1,99GB when transmitet VIA USBto Windows computer file size is corrupted .
What i do is ccopy movie to external sd card and then using card reader copy to desktop/laptop OR send it through wireless network it also send not corrupted file. I don't know the solution problably new ROM should be prepared but i'm waiting for ICS with my sgs2
could someone help me I don't know what it is?
I had the same problem. I narrowed it down to the file size. Is the file more than 2GB? When copying two MKVs the difference between the two was that one was 2.2GB and the other, the one that worked, was 1.41GB.
Yes it is 8gb^^ full hd bluray rip I just read that it has a limitation for 4gb only? is that true? if yes is there a way I can change that?
Can't confirm a file size limit. Transfered an 8.73gb 1080p mkv file to my prime and it is a) on the primes internal storage and b) it plays flawlessly with dice player
Transfered mine using the usb cable and my pc is running win7 x64 professional.
thanks I tried it with a zip and that works 16gb but MKV doesn't work and I don't know why
what os are you using? are you transfering the files via usb or wifi? maybe someone with the same system specs as you can help you out
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could someone help me I don't know what it is?
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How did you try to transfer it and what did the error msg say?
Format your SD cards/USB sticks to exFat or NTFS, that should do the trick.
The problem is the partition table, Anything upto FAT32 cant go larger then 2gb I think.
I have the Asus eee Pad transformer Prime 64gb verion and windows 7 64bit.
Im triing to put the movie on the internal storage, I don't have a other sd card.
And I'm triing to load it over the Usb Cable
And the error is that it says well I have to translate it, it says that windows-explorer doesn't work anymore and needs to restart
Its a windows 7 thing. I've had the same problem trying to transfer large mkvs to my home server. Some things to try:
in windows explorer, go to tools, folder options, view tab, first checkbox says "Always show icons, never thumbnails", check it
some have had success changing the file extension to jpg...
others have had to uninstall divx
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And I'm triing to load it over the Usb Cable
And the error is that it says well I have to translate it, it says that windows-explorer doesn't work anymore and needs to restart
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Using USB you only have the option to save it to the SD card. This would mean you would need to format as NTFS to not run into the FAT32 file limit.
I would transfer this via wifi if you can save it to your internal storage; however, if you plan on doing this a lot you should save yourself the trouble and just properly format the SD CARD to NTFS.
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Its a windows 7 thing. I've had the same problem trying to transfer large mkvs to my home server. Some things to try:
in windows explorer, go to tools, folder options, view tab, first checkbox says "Always show icons, never thumbnails", check it
some have had success changing the file extension to jpg...
others have had to uninstall divx
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its working with the jpg method thank you very much
UmbraeSoulsbane said:
Using USB you only have the option to save it to the SD card. This would mean you would need to format as NTFS to not run into the FAT32 file limit.
I would transfer this via wifi if you can save it to your internal storage; however, if you plan on doing this a lot you should save yourself the trouble and just properly format the SD CARD to NTFS.
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You can transfer files to the Internal Storage using USB. It would very very stupid if you can't.
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Using USB you only have the option to save it to the SD card. This would mean you would need to format as NTFS to not run into the FAT32 file limit.
I would transfer this via wifi if you can save it to your internal storage; however, if you plan on doing this a lot you should save yourself the trouble and just properly format the SD CARD to NTFS.
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Yes, but way more no. You are right, that it says sdcard on the prime. But that is just a case of really bad naming. When you go to the stock file manager on the prime you'll see that it distinguishes between "sdcard" and "removable" on the highest folder level. If you however access the "sdcard" folder you get to the internal storage.
As far as transfer speed goes nothing can beat the usb connection in my experience. My wifi (n standard) isn't even close to being as fast as the usb connection.
I have a 2.1 gig 720p MKV file (.h264) which I would like to play on my Touchpad running CM9 Alpha2. The Touchpad shows up in my OS (Win7), and I can copy different kinds of files to it.
But whenever I try to copy these 2gig files to it Windows Explorer crashes and has to restart. Anyone else have this issue? It happens with most of these 720p multi-gig files. Don't have an issue transferring them to my Galaxy S phone.
Hmm find a thread about this in general:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1443228
I haven't tried to put on a file bigger than about 1.2 gigs onto my Touchpad. But I think it might have something to do with the fact that this is loaded as a media device rather than an actual USB device.
Try this: Reboot into CWM and mount the USB storage there, and see if you can copy it.
Second thing to try is reboot into WebOS and again try and copy it. If it works on either of them, you know it's because of the fact that it's listed as an MTP device rather than a USB device.
Thank you! It was because of the MTP thing. I booted into WebOS and mounted it as a regular USB device and that worked. Saved me a lot of time and headache.
Glad I could help.
If you'd rebooted into CWM and mounted it from Mounts and Storage => Mount USB Storage, it would've given you the same result, but without the 5 minute bootup time for WebOS. Just sayin'. =)
Guys I searched in forums and I couldn't find a good thread (except mikob2d's thread)
You know when you disable usb debugging and then pluging usb cable and mount, Pc shows internal sd, external sd also a cdrom image. I know we can change internal external mounts but is there a way to change cdrom image? I've a ultrabook which hasn't got a optical drive, but it can mount sd cards also the cdrom image when I plugged my phone. I want to use my phone as a cdrom. If any developers interested, I want to help too.
Think about an app which selects iso files and then when you plug you phone via usb, pc saw phone's sd cards and also that chosen iso file as a cdrom.
Thank you for reading, I check my messages everyday.
You can mount isos to a virtual optical drive within Windows with various apps, I use Virtual CloneDrive:
http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html
I'm not sure why you would want to do this from Android, seems like it would be more of a pain to have to transfer the iso file over.
Dude I know daemon methods but our phones can do this, And also you can't use Operating System based virtualization methods. Thus I need a external solution which can be a external optic drive but hey, our phones alredy does that. Just a little script can make the magic. also USB transfer speeds are low but sdcard transfer speeds are quite faster. Also this is a poweruser level request.
If I am right the cd image includes software drivers for the phone in that case you could find the file (which I am assuming is a image file) on the phone that it is using then replace it with a symlink to your cd image.
To figure out which file I would use a terminal to check the output of "lsof" when it is mounted on your computer to see possible filenames.
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If I am right the cd image includes software drivers for the phone in that case you could find the file (which I am assuming is a image file) on the phone that it is using then replace it with a symlink to your cd image.
To figure out which file I would use a terminal to check the output of "lsof" when it is mounted on your computer to see possible filenames.
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That's what I'm saying. I can find it easily but I was thinking can I change the mount script. A little program which chooses the iso files from sdcard and mounts these isos instead of manifacturer's driver iso.
I recently purchased a Pivos Xios Android Media Center. I bought it to replace my Popcorn Hour Network Media Tank. I had been using a 1 terabyte drive in the NMT, which the Linux back end of the NMT had formatted to the EXT3 file system. After my NMT died, I moved the hard drive into an external USB enclosure. I was able to get the Xios to read from the drive using the USB OTG (On the Go) Helper; the Xios would not recognize the drive without the app, as apparently the build of ICS it uses cannot natively read from EXT3 devices connected externally (even though it uses an EXT format on its internal drive space). The Xios was able to read from the files deposited by the NMT on the drive fine; I could also see and read the files on my PC using the Samba File Sharing app. So things were looking up, and it looked like I had found a good replacement for my NMT. Then I ran into a problem.
Any file I copy from my PC to the EXT3 USB drive is unreadable. I can copy files to the FAT32 Microsd card without issue, but the files I copy to the HD show as Readable: No and Writable: No on ES File Explorer. Any media player that attempts to play the files fails. I can play media from the SD card fine, and from my PC fine. If I attempt to copy a file from the SD card to the HD using ES, the copy operation fails.
From my limited experience with Unix/Linux, I'd say permission to write a readable file to the HD still belongs to my dead Popcorn NMT. I need a way to have the Xios take ownership either for the files I copy from my PC, or the entire partition. The Xios comes rooted by default. Is there some kind of Android command line app and a script I can use to do this, or some kind of an ownership app I can use to take ownership of the drive?
Thanks!
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I recently purchased a Pivos Xios Android Media Center. I bought it to replace my Popcorn Hour Network Media Tank. I had been using a 1 terabyte drive in the NMT, which the Linux back end of the NMT had formatted to the EXT3 file system. After my NMT died, I moved the hard drive into an external USB enclosure. I was able to get the Xios to read from the drive using the USB OTG (On the Go) Helper; the Xios would not recognize the drive without the app, as apparently the build of ICS it uses cannot natively read from EXT3 devices connected externally (even though it uses an EXT format on its internal drive space). The Xios was able to read from the files deposited by the NMT on the drive fine; I could also see and read the files on my PC using the Samba File Sharing app. So things were looking up, and it looked like I had found a good replacement for my NMT. Then I ran into a problem.
Any file I copy from my PC to the EXT3 USB drive is unreadable. I can copy files to the FAT32 Microsd card without issue, but the files I copy to the HD show as Readable: No and Writable: No on ES File Explorer. Any media player that attempts to play the files fails. I can play media from the SD card fine, and from my PC fine. If I attempt to copy a file from the SD card to the HD using ES, the copy operation fails.
From my limited experience with Unix/Linux, I'd say permission to write a readable file to the HD still belongs to my dead Popcorn NMT. I need a way to have the Xios take ownership either for the files I copy from my PC, or the entire partition. The Xios comes rooted by default. Is there some kind of Android command line app and a script I can use to do this, or some kind of an ownership app I can use to take ownership of the drive?
Thanks!
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Update: I'm able to use Root Explorer to change the permissions on files deposited onto to the drive by PC over Samba. I have to change permissions on both the created folder and the file to do this. This is a tedious process using Root Explorer. Would I be able to use Remote ADB to change the permissions on the ext3 drive from my PC in bulk, or does it always have to be done at the file/folder level. I'd preferably just like to transfer ownership of the ext3 partition to the Xios.