Can't play mp4

dhutchins · 10-22-2008, 08:41 PM

I can drag mp4's from my itunes library into the sd card and the Mac sees it but it won't show once the sd card is back in the G1, any ideas?

robert · 10-23-2008, 12:01 AM

Because its a piece of junk. The cheapest junk coming out of China works with MP4 files. Junk is junk is JUNK!

dhutchins · 10-23-2008, 05:34 AM

Well, that helps!!!

vrocks · 10-23-2008, 05:41 AM

That has nothing to do with your g1. Your mac and ipod are registered devices for that video which u purchased through itunes?

dhutchins · 10-23-2008, 05:55 AM

What about the songs, the guy in the store told me I could simply 'drag' songs from my itunes folder to the sd card?

vrocks · 10-23-2008, 05:58 AM

only digital rights management free songs. I believe u need to have paid extra for them to be drm free. you can find apps that will remove the drm.

txo · 10-28-2008, 09:00 AM

this is what i found out from the internet.

Play VIdeos in MPEG-4 H.264
The G1 has no built-in video player. That's what the Android Market is for. When we were testing the phone, there was only one true video playback program available: Video Player. And while this program can only play MPEG-4 movie files, we should soon see other video-playing programs that will be able to handle all sorts of codecs. However, even when these options become available, you'll still want to play your movies in MPEG-4 H.264 compression whenever possible. This is because the G1 has built-in hardware acceleration that makes this specific video format run extra smooth. Future programs will probably run Divx and Xvid and all those great files you've collected from Bittorrent, but the programs' on-the-fly decryption and viewing will be far more taxing on the software, which could mean lags.