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Help with video playback? Lost Videos?

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Icompetentuser

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Hello,

I'm not sure if anybody can give me the advice I need but here goes. I used to have a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge. I recorded quite a few videos on it using its own camera. I then bought an SD card and backed everything up to it when I sold my phone for an iPhone 7. The problem I'm having is that half of the videos don't work on the iPhone after I transferred the data. It says the format isn't supported. So I tried to put the SD card into my laptop and after importing them, the same videos wont play. Only the audio will play not the actual video. I spoke to a friend and he thinks the when I put them onto the SD card the format was changed to store them on that particular card and if I put the card back into an android phone it will convert it back and the videos will play properly. The SD card in question is a SanDisk Micro SD card. I'm worried that I've lost all my videos or that they have been corrupted whilst I copied them to the SD as I've no way of getting back the originals because I wiped and sold my S7 Edge.

Any help or advice would be great. Thanks
 
Thanks for the reply!
They are .mp4
That's actually the video Player I downloaded after Windows Media Player didn't work. The only difference is that the thumbnail of the video came up and froze just before playing the audio on VLC. On WMP it didn't have any thumbnail at all.
I should mention that the videos on the iPhone have a thumbnail/preview picture of the start of the video.

Cheers
 
Reason: May be VLC "video output modes" is set wrong.

Solution: In this condition, all you need is to configure X Server correctly. Just see the screenshot for the same.

Open VLC, go to Tools, and click on Preferences. Go to Video section and enable Video, in case it is un-clicked. Then Check the box for Window decorations, if it is un-clicked. Then set the Output drop-down menu to X11 video output (XCB) and save the changes and restart your VLC Player for the changes to come effective.

NotPlaying-1.jpg


Reason: The MP4 video codec problem may be the reason for which VLC Media Player does not play MP4.

Solution: In fact, MP4 is a container video format which generally contains a number of audio, video, and subtitle streams. In the condition, If an MP4 file contains a VLC incompatible video codec, it will fail to play in VLC.

In this case, we need to convert MP4 to VLC more supported video format. Such as .avi

You can also use this guide
https://www.easefab.com/topic-mp4/cannot-play-mp4-in-vlc-media-player.html
 
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