Convert Smartphones Into Video Players?

[Zac_K]

:hello:

I am a video-maker who is very much interested in using smartphones as a way of displaying my video art, mainly because a lot of my stuff delves into the good/bad/ugly regarding technology. I was wondering if anyone here has any experience with using/converting a smartphone into a continuous video player. I will be using a DroidX and a Samsung 4GLTE - the videos will play continuously for 8 hours (hooked up to nearby chargers).

Does anyone have any experience or advice to tips on how to keep these videos playing? The files will be large, around 10-30gb each. I really would appreciate any sort of guidance, links, or applications that I should check out. It is very important that these videos don't bug out or cause the phone to crash, so please let me know if there are any specifications that should be made to the video files so that the phone can easily and safely process for continuous play. Video quality itself is important to me, but I am willing to shrink the resolution even more or change how it's rendered so that no problems arise.

Zac_K

 

[El Presidente]

Heat might be an issue.

Also, file size is something that sticks out as a massive problem. I take it the movies will be on SD Cards? As far as I'm aware a lot of phones won't read SD Cards unless they're formatted to FAT32 which has a max file size of 4GB.

Is there no way you can encode them to be smaller? Because of the screen size, the resolution doesn't have to be super high for a decent picture.

 

[Zac_K]

Heat might be an issue.

Also, file size is something that sticks out as a massive problem. I take it the movies will be on SD Cards? As far as I'm aware a lot of phones won't read SD Cards unless they're formatted to FAT32 which has a max file size of 4GB.

Is there no way you can encode them to be smaller? Because of the screen size, the resolution doesn't have to be super high for a decent picture.

Good point! They will be hanging on a brick wall with rubber protective cases, so I don't know if that will do anything with heat. Maybe I would be better off taking off the cases and finding a way to touch the wall.

It kind of dawned on me that I could just use an application to loop the videos instead of loading and playing ridiculously long files. Do applications like that exist? What do you recommend?

 

[El Presidente]

You could have a look at Dice Player or MX Player? Both are pretty feature laden.