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can u play mkv files on the tab without conversion

Posted 08 January 2011 - 10:47 PM (#1) User is offline   simcards 

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Ive done a fair bit of googling to try to find out if the Tab can play mkv files out of the box, all i find is links discussing how to convert mkv files to mpeg to be played back

What id like to know please is if the Tab can play them without converting, i am talking about a standard say 720p mkv video file

thanks in advance
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Posted 09 January 2011 - 01:59 PM (#2) User is offline   Bogdi 

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Hello.

The tab plays 720p mkv videos but they need to be less than 4GB otherwise they won't copy because the tab is on FAT32 if I am not mistaken.

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View PostBogdi, on 09 January 2011 - 01:59 PM, said:

Hello.

The tab plays 720p mkv videos but they need to be less than 4GB otherwise they won't copy because the tab is on FAT32 if I am not mistaken.




just what i needed to know, thanks for the reply

think im gonna take the leap of faith and get one ordered
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Posted 09 January 2011 - 03:27 PM (#4) User is offline   Bogdi 

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No problem. It plays also 1080p movies. Just checked the back of the box it came with 8)

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Hi, what kind of video format can be viewed on Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 "GT-P1000. Thanks.
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Posted 23 April 2011 - 11:19 AM (#6) User is offline   pendevous 

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View PostHristo, on 22 April 2011 - 11:45 PM, said:

Hi, what kind of video format can be viewed on Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 "GT-P1000. Thanks.


Mkv, flv, avi, 3gp, divx, mp4, and I tjink that it can play rmvb too. The tab is also capable of playong 1080p videos, something that even old netbooks can't do.

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Posted 23 April 2011 - 02:34 PM (#7) User is offline   Hristo 

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View Postpendevous, on 23 April 2011 - 11:19 AM, said:

Mkv, flv, avi, 3gp, divx, mp4, and I tjink that it can play rmvb too. The tab is also capable of playong 1080p videos, something that even old netbooks can't do.

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The best A/V settings for converting big MKV files for Galaxy Tab:
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Video Codec- H.264
Video Format- .mp4
Resolution- 1280*720
Video Bitrate – 1500kbps
Frame Rate – 30fps

Audio
Audio Codec- AAC
Audio Bitrate- 128kbps
Sample Rate- 44.1khz
Audio Channel- Stereo

This would shrink 100mins' contents to 1-2GB and still keep good quality. There are video converters that can save the settings for you.
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View PostHristo, on 22 April 2011 - 11:45 PM, said:

Hi, what kind of video format can be viewed on Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 "GT-P1000. Thanks.


it only supports H.263, H.264 AVC, MPEG-4 SP video format

if you wanna to play other video formats including AVI, MKV, WMV, RM, FLV, MOV, Xvid, DivX, 3GP, WebM, VP8 and more on Samsung Galaxy

see : MX Player :- https://play.google....251bGwsMSwyLDNd
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I've watched many mkvs on mine. Up to 720p works great. 1080 not so well, and I am using a p1000 Galaxy Tab.
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View Postsunshinetom, on 15 August 2011 - 06:43 AM, said:

it only supports H.263, H.264 AVC, MPEG-4 SP video format

if you wanna to play other video formats including AVI, MKV, WMV, RM, FLV, MOV, Xvid, DivX, 3GP, WebM, VP8 and more on Samsung Galaxy
you may refer to various video to samsung


thanks it solve my concern, now i can play all kinds of videos on my samsung galaxy S3
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