videos won't play anymore

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Posted this last week in the audio/video forum, but didn't get any solutions:

Ok i have had my droid since December. Have been converting dvds using handbrake on my Mac and have had good results. h264 format.

But as of last night when I select a movie to play via astro file mgr, I am getting this error message "file type m4v not found" on some of the movies that I have watched before.

I can watch some movies but most are showing this message. But even on the ones i can watch I have to "open as type".

This really weird b/c these are video files that played on my droid before. Plus it wont play the videos that i shoot with the droid.

I have done a battery pull.
 

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Have you switched to a different ROM before this error starting popping up?
 
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No. Running completely stock, not rooted.
 

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This happened to me once. Also had the issue with .mp3 files at the same time. It was like the droid lost all file type associations.

It was either a simple reboot or a battery pull that fixed it. Haven't had the problem since.
 

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I have the Astro file manager app, and it's got a little thing that lets you change file type associations. I had to use it once myself when I screwed one of them up. As long as it's just the one file type that's hosed, it should be an easy fix.
 
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i have 6 .avi files i have to open as > video in astro to get them to play...but i never knew avi could even be played on the droid til i added them, no problems with mp4 videos..havent tried anything else.
 
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Thanks for the responses. I think I need some type of reset or update or something.

It will play and then not play. Even the videos I have recorded with the phone are acting up. On some attempts the the audio will play, on other other attempts the vid will play a few seconds and then freeze up.

I have pulled the battery a number of times. Once after a battery pull some of the videos did play. But no consistent results.

Not rooted, btw.

Please help if you have any suggestions.
 

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This happened to me once. Also had the issue with .mp3 files at the same time. It was like the droid lost all file type associations.

It was either a simple reboot or a battery pull that fixed it. Haven't had the problem since.

I have the same problem sometimes with .mp3 files. I really hope 2.1 addresses some of these ridiculous issues. I get mine to work again by rebooting, but it is a PITA!
 
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Yeah its def something wrong with the software. I was on a website last night and tried to play a youtube video on the site and it would start just enough to hear the audio for a second, and then give me a "this video cannot be played" message.

I kept trying and it eventually played. ???

BTW when I check the details on the video files it shows a 0 for the file size. I guess that means that the file is not transferring correctly from the computer. but I kinda doubt that is the case, b/c teh files pay sometimes and not others.
 
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