Help I really liked my S5 UNTIL...

Cougaram · May 24, 2014

I really liked my S5 until I found out I couldn't play half of the videos I had on my old S4. I've googled until blue in the face for a solution but so far no joy. Any ideas????

Rukbat · May 24, 2014

Install a video player that will play the file types you have or convert them to a type the S5 will play.

Cougaram · May 25, 2014

I've tried them all. No luck. I seems S5 is unable to play most video files larger than 1gb. Also, avi's wont play. Mx, video player, bsplayer, different codec apps from play store etc, etc... nothing solves the problem. If the camera wasn't so good I'd take this lemon back fast.

DirtyDee · May 25, 2014

Cougaram said:
I've tried them all. No luck. I seems S5 is unable to play most video files larger than 1gb. Also, avi's wont play. Mx, video player, bsplayer, different codec apps from play store etc, etc... nothing solves the problem. If the camera wasn't so good I'd take this lemon back fast.

So vlc player doesn't work?

PainFX · May 25, 2014

Have you tried mx player? Its the best one currently

Cougaram · May 25, 2014

DirtyDee said:
So vlc player doesn't work?

No. I think there's something with kit-kat that is causing the problem. A shame because I really enjoy watching my videos while flying. I guess I'll just have to designate my old S4 as my dedicated video player. For me, the S5 is a lost cause as far as videos are concerned. Here's hoping an update will fix the problem of playing videos from an sd card.

BRAINZ2013 · May 25, 2014

If the vlc Dont work did you get the correct one for your arm device

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.vlc.betav7neon

Cougaram · May 25, 2014

PainFX said:
Have you tried mx player? Its the best one currently

Yes. It's miserable as well. (for playing from the sd card). I'm starting to think there's some severe limitations with kit-kat compatibility with sd cards. I've tried 15 different sd cards ranging from dirt cheap to very expensive and the results are always the same. The sames sd cards (and videos) play flawlessly on both of my pcs and my old S4. It seems the S5 was released with a few 'issues' and one can't really expect an ota update since I'm with tmo.

DirtyDee · May 25, 2014

Cougaram said:
Yes. It's miserable as well. (for playing from the sd card). I'm starting to think there's some severe limitations with kit-kat compatibility with sd cards. I've tried 15 different sd cards ranging from dirt cheap to very expensive and the results are always the same. The sames sd cards (and videos) play flawlessly on both of my pcs and my old S4. It seems the S5 was released with a few 'issues' and one can't really expect an ota update since I'm with tmo.

I don't think it's a KK issue maybe a Sammy issue. I used a few devices with sd cards with movies on sd cards and watched them without issue.. Luckily for you the T-Mobile variant has an unlocked bootloader so rooting shouldn't be an issue or flashing a different firmware via Kies...

Cougaram · May 25, 2014

BRAINZ2013 said:
If the vlc Dont work did you get the correct one for your arm device

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.vlc.betav7neon

It says it's incompatible with my device.

Cougaram · May 25, 2014

DirtyDee said:
I don't think it's a KK issue maybe a Sammy issue. I used a few devices with sd cards with movies on sd cards and watched them without issue.. Luckily for you the T-Mobile variant has an unlocked bootloader so rooting shouldn't be an issue or flashing a different firmware via Kies...

A 'sammy issue' was my 2nd guess. A real bummer to have such a great display in a phone that won't keep me entertained on long flights as most of my movies are over 700mb. Thank you for the quick replies.

zigson · May 26, 2014

Works fine for me. Mine are approx 1.4gb.

alunjai · May 26, 2014

My old videos taken from S4 works on the S5. I use MX player. They were all stored on a 32gb sd card and all seems to work fine. Not tried video files over 700mb yet.

nests · May 26, 2014

Weird issue I play a lot of 1080p movies well over 1.5 gigs using MX player and haven't had trouble

Carpe Nocturnal · May 28, 2014

Just upgraded from an S3 to an S5, my old vids play fine? Maybe it was how you recorded?

Bear

zigson · May 28, 2014

Apart from the OP has no one else had a problem?

172driver · May 28, 2014

zigson said:
Apart from the OP has no one else had a problem?

No problem whatsoever playing videos from my miscroSD card with the stock player. Although the largest I have on there so far is 312MB.

Cougaram · May 28, 2014

Carpe Nocturnal said:
Just upgraded from an S3 to an S5, my old vids play fine? Maybe it was how you recorded?

Bear

As I previously stated, my videos play flawlessly on my pc, my Mac, my old S3 and S4 from the same card. 'how I recorded it'? Really?

mountainfisher · May 29, 2014

Sounds like you are the only one with the problem

Cougaram · May 29, 2014

mountainfisher said:
Sounds like you are the only one with the problem

It does seem that way. Looks like it's time for me to return this lemon for replacement. Oh well, that's the chance you take when you're 1st in line to buy something when it first comes to market. I will wait several months next time.

BzB · May 29, 2014

Cougaram said:
It does seem that way. Looks like it's time for me to return this lemon for replacement. Oh well, that's the chance you take when you're 1st in line to buy something when it first comes to market. I will wait several months next time.

something tells me it's not the phone and returning it for a replacement may not fix the issue. it's very possible something weird happened with encoding of the vids when they were recorded or something is wrong with the sdcard.

i've transferred vids from one sdcard to the next for the past 6 years and i have yet to have an issue with a new phone not playing vids recorded on the previous phone. regardless of vid size and os platform.

if the vids are important i'd suggest saving them to your computer for safe keeping.

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