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Sorry, this video cannot be played

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Potplant

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I recently purchased a htc desire s and have been quite happy with it. I recently bought a sandisk 32gb micro-sd card to store all my media from iTunes. All my music transferred fine but when I try to play my movies (in mp4 format) an error message appears saying 'Sorry, this video cannot be played'. I have tried many different players and the same always happens. Any help would be appreciated.

P.S. I checked on play store and flash player has not got any available updates.
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Potplant said:
I recently purchased a htc desire s and have been quite happy with it. I recently bought a sandisk 32gb micro-sd card to store all my media from iTunes. All my music transferred fine but when I try to play my movies (in mp4 format) an error message appears saying 'Sorry, this video cannot be played'. I have tried many different players and the same always happens. Any help would be appreciated.

P.S. I checked on play store and flash player has not got any available updates.
:)
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Well, it could be that the file format isn't supported, or that there is DRM on the video. Does it have any DRM?
 
IOWA said:
Well, it could be that the file format isn't supported, or that there is DRM on the video. Does it have any DRM?
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I'm not sure, I just bought them straight off the store (episodes of inbetweeners and three movies). Do all iTunes movies have DRM?...and I assume there is no way to get rid of it?
 
Potplant said:
I'm not sure, I just bought them straight off the store (episodes of inbetweeners and three movies). Do all iTunes movies have DRM?...and I assume there is no way to get rid of it?
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If you got it from iTunes, it probably has DRM. Getting rid of DRM is tricky, and it depends on the arrangements you used to acquire the media. This is why I don't purchase from iTunes.
 
IOWA said:
If you got it from iTunes, it probably has DRM. Getting rid of DRM is tricky, and it depends on the arrangements you used to acquire the media. This is why I don't purchase from iTunes.
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Ok, thanks for the help :) recommend any other stores for an android device? (play store doesn't seem to have many videos)
 
Potplant said:
Ok, thanks for the help :) recommend any other stores for an android device? (play store doesn't seem to have many videos)
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I would just suggest purchasing the dvd and ripping it, I don't know of any(legal) non drm download sites sadly
 
I just downloaded some movies from my flixster account on my DROID RAZR and when I go to play them it says sorry video cannot be played so how can I get those downloads to play
 
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