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Gasguzziler
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12/27/10 07:33 PM (15 years ago)

Cannot Play Video

I am getting this message when I am trying to have a video stream to an app Sorry, This video is not valid for streaming to this device I have converted the video from a .flv to an mp4 with a 480x320 resolution for an android phone. I was wondering if there is something that I did wrong or what could possibly be changed to fix the problem. any thoughts or ideas will be greatly appreciated. The video is available at http://www.topagentapp.com/videos/argent.mp4 if maybe I got something wrong.
 
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12/27/10 08:29 PM (15 years ago)
What tool did you use to do the conversion? I downloaded your file and it's size is over 10mg.. I sure you know this. Now just a guess but I had some real issues with streaming audio when the bitrate was over 128. SO my guess is since buzztouch is using the same player for both Audio and Video streams same issue. Your bit rate is to large. When I get a few I will run it through a converter and upload it to my site and do a test stream.. Don't worry I will remove it when I am done :)
 
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12/27/10 08:56 PM (15 years ago)
The app was any video converter pro. I can check the settings but it also did the same with a video that was half the size
 
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12/27/10 08:56 PM (15 years ago)
Check the bitrate on it...
 
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12/27/10 08:58 PM (15 years ago)
768 Im guessing that is too high [edit] well even after lowering it to 256 I am still getting the same error on the app but the video is more than half the size
 
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12/27/10 09:06 PM (15 years ago)
Go down to 128.. See what happens. Maybe it is a codec thing. I will keep looking as well.
 
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12/27/10 09:12 PM (15 years ago)
went to 128 and made sure that it was on a mpeg4 codec and still the same problem...
 
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12/27/10 09:29 PM (15 years ago)
Okay looking at the error report form the emulator: Found some simular: Have not looked at it all.. I was running on a emulator have you tried on a 'real' device? command PLAYER_INT completed with an error or info PVMFErrTimeout http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2544365/android-cant-play-any-videos-mp4-mov-3gp-etc We can read together see what we come up with.
 
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12/27/10 09:31 PM (15 years ago)
Yea it has been tried on a couple of different devices and they all do the same thing, I will read the article and see if I can come up with any ideas
 
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12/28/10 12:33 AM (15 years ago)
Well I think that I figured out that it is my converter that was causing the problems. I tried 4 different ones with the same problem but finally found GOM encoder that did work. I am just curious what it was that the others were doing that was so wrong that the phones did not like the video.
 
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12/28/10 05:23 AM (15 years ago)
I agree!! Because my encoder did not work as well.. HEY question what tool are you useing to put your PDF in a nice little phone formate?
 
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12/28/10 06:06 AM (15 years ago)
well for the pdf files I just usually use acrobat pro. but I found that if you can find the program, that acrobat distiller works real well to get the file size down to the minimum. it is a little work to use being you have to change a pdf to a different format and then back to a pdf using the distiller. but when on these mobile phones every meg counts i have found it to be worth it.
 

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