Watching movies

[soportal]

Hi,

I have a Coby Kyros MID7024 tablet with Android 2.2. One application of my interest is watching movies in avi format. These films usually have a size of 1.3 to 1.5 Gbytes. The movies look good but if I try to advance them, it is impossible to go over approximately one hour duration. I've tried several players (mVideoPlayer, Zimly, Meridian and the player included with Android) and all them do the same. Does Android handle large files well?. Any ideas?

Greetings.
soportal

 

[Usta]

Not sure I understand what the issue is here, but you should not have any problems with large file sizes.

Try also MoboPlayer or VitalPlayer, since these are very capable apps.

Also, try to convert your videos to something that is native to Android. The recommended format is H264 Baseline Profile in MP4 container.

You can use the guide in my signature to convert videos using Handbrake on PC.

 

[takeshi]

It's not a matter of file size. Certain codecs handle indexing differently and you can't easily skip depending on the specific codec used. Keep in mind that AVI is just a container format and a given AVI could use any of a number of codecs out there.