"Cannot Play This Video" error for only some video

[darrenmannn]

Hi all. So Ive got an S5 and I took some videos on holiday. I was having an issue with my camera saving everything to device, and refusing to save it to the S.D. But I found a fix by clearing the cache. But now I'm back, some of the videos I shot will not play. They're saying video cannot be played. Also a few photos won't show. Under "about" it shows the sizes are like 1.2gb so it's like there's something there. I plugged my phone to my laptop nd can't play the same videos through there either. Have tried uninstaling updates to Google plus, and my Google photos did need an update. Done that but still the same videos (and quite a few photos) aren't showing up. Any other advice or reasons for this? Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance

 

[N4Newbie]

It's always risky saving photos and, especially, videos directly to an SD card. Unless you are careful to purchase only SD cards which have very high speed ratings, there is a possibility (actually, probability) of data corruption.

Better to save photos and videos to internal memory and then use a file browser to move them to the SD card later.

 

[darrenmannn]

Ahhhh ok that sounds like what's happened here. Specially coz the videos that aren't showing are the bigger ones. Ok thanks for the advice will note for future reference

 

[B. Diddy]

See my response in this other thread as well: http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...deo-message-gallery-note-4-a.html#post5185723