Craziest thing with my new S8+, I have no video player. Only after moving old videos over from old phone I find them under downloads and can watch them. I hit my open apps button and it shows its the video player but it's nowhere to be found. Where's the rascal hiding? It's not in gallery either.
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Missing video player
- Thread starter 73tawm
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I'd just install a third-party media player app from the Play Store. Apps like MX Player or VLC are much more capable, and either one is able to handle a significantly larger number of varying codecs than the stock video player app anyway.
MX Player
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mxtech.videoplayer.ad
VLC
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.vlc&hl=en
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Nope. I followed link to play store and it has an install option not an open option.
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The gallery does show videos on phone listed in the "Pictures" tab, the videos have the triangle like play button on them. I agree with you that there is no specific Video player app icon by default on the phone. It gets a little tedious to search through the Pictures in gallery to find my videos.
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I can't even remember if I had to install the Samsung player or if it was already on my S8+
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