Kudos to Henk and Todd for the tip!

For the complete story on how to play your own video’s on android:

Install Jeff Hamilton’s ‘Video Player’ from the market...]]> After my first post on the subject I got the tip for a better, cleaner and faster encoder.

Kudos to Henk and Todd for the tip!

For the complete story on how to play your own video’s on android:

Install Jeff Hamilton’s ‘Video Player’ from the market.
This is a simple, no BS video player which supports playing MP4 or 3GPP with H.264, H.263 encoding and MP3, AAC or AMR Audio from your SD card.

Now that was easy.

Download iPodMe (either google it or go to to Softpedia http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/iPodME-Download-119389.html)

iPodMe is so straight forward that I’m not going into that program, you can’t go wrong, it’s too easy!
Only tip: Look at the resolution you are setting it to, try and match your phone.

Since a couple of months I have a new Android Phone...]]> UPDATE:There is a new post on this subject here:
http://skypher.com/index.php/2010/05/21/video-playback-on-android-2/

Since a couple of months I have a new Android Phone. Ever since I got it I’ve been searching on how to play videos on the device.

When push comes to shove, it’s actually quite simple.

First: Install Jeff Hamilton’s ‘Video Player’ from the market.
This is a simple, no BS video player which supports playing MP4 or 3GPP with H.264, H.263 encoding and MP3, AAC or AMR Audio from your SD card.

Now that was easy.

Since the player does not support DivX XviD or anything else than stated above you might want to convert your video files. Luckily that is quite easy as well.

The Videora iPod converter works excellent it can be found here:
http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/

After installation, it’s somewhat ‘weird’ in my perception on how it works. But it does the job.

After installing, open up the settings ‘tab’ and select ‘encoding’.
Take iPod Classic (6th generation) from the dropdown and then select create a new profile, which you can dub ‘Android’ or something in the name field.

Under Video, take these settings (click for large):

Then click ‘OK’ and ‘Save Settings’.

Next up is starting an encoding job.

Go to convert

And then, this is the odd part. Select ‘Power Mode’ from the center block, ignore the annoying advertisements:

Ok that done, now, in the bottom part of the application you can see the next step.

You need to select the file you wish to encode and be sure to select the profile we just created as such:

You can choose to enqueue it or start encoding right away!

When done, which may take quite some time, you only have to copy your freshly created file to your phone’s SD card and start the Video Player. It will find the file by itself and you can watch straight away!

Any comment is welcome if you know a better application for the job, please tell me!

Have fun!