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Help This video cannot be played - Captivate

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SouthofOttawa

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Hi,
I download video podcasts from TWIT.tv and then play them back later on. Every once in a while I go to start the video and get a message saying "This Video Cannot be Played on Android". The strange thing is that I was able to play the same video either a few hours earlier or the previous day. The only way I have found that will "fix" this is to restart the phone and then the video plays without any problems.
I have used both the TWIT.tv app by Mediafly and Doggcatcher but get the same results.
Anyone else have this issue and figured out if there is a fix? Really annoying to have to restart your phone to play a video!

Thanks!
 
I've actually experienced this with audio/songs as well. A reboot always fixes it but it's like the system 'forgets' that it supports all the standard filetypes.

Anybody else experience this?
 
I should mention that this was a problem with the Cog 4 ROM as well. It may be because of the Froyo Kernel Samsung is using.

I flashed Serendipity about a week ago and haven't had the problem since.
 
So I think I may have come across a solution. I found a post on a related issue where a user said that he wasn't able to play any of his music that he copied to his Captivate. He uninstalled the Twitter App and since then has not had any errors playing his music. I recently switched to Tweetdeck from Twitter so I tried uninstalling Twitter about 2 weeks ago and since then have had no issues playing downloaded music or audio/video podcasts.
So far so good.
 
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