Why can I not play MP4 videos after an Indefinite amount of time?

[AC Question]

Why can I not play MP4 videos after *Indefintate amount of time*

I have downloaded some videos from youtube, educational purposes, and when I put them onto my SD card, I get a message stating that the video type may not be supported by my phone.... Well, it should support MP4.... any ways, move the video files onto my phone. Unplug it, and check.... Yeap, videos are playing fine. No distortion, no artifacting, no sound issues... No error messages!!!

So I plug it back in, put a few more videos on, MP4 again. Then check them again. All the videos I have put on, all play without any problems. So okay, should be good for later at work.

I get to lunch time at work, think "I'll watch some of these videos" open the folder, pick a video "Cannot play video - Unsupported file type" - WTH!?

Why is it that the videos play fine after they've been put on the phone, but after 6 - 7 hours, they suddenly become an "Unsupported file type"!! what the hell is that. From checking the videos are ALL playing fine, to when I get on my lunch at work, my phone storage is not modified / updated in ANY way, by my input. So unless the G4 is corrupting these videos, I cannot see any logical reason for why I am having this problem.

Any one have any kind of answer / input for me?

 

[RedOctobyr]

Re: Why can I not play MP4 videos after *Indefintate amount of time*

You're using the same video player as before? I haven't seen files "go bad".

You might try another video player. I really like MX Player. VLC is also good.

Another thing would be to copy them off the phone and play those files on your PC. That would help understand if the files have become corrupted, or if it's more likely to be something with the phone's video playing app.

 

[sswitzer]

Re: Why can I not play MP4 videos after *Indefintate amount of time*

You're using the same video player as before? I haven't seen files "go bad".

You might try another video player. I really like MX Player. VLC is also good.

Another thing would be to copy them off the phone and play those files on your PC. That would help understand if the files have become corrupted, or if it's more likely to be something with the phone's video playing app.

I've had this happen before... The quickpic video player seems to work best. VLC wouldn't play them.