[Q] Android Won't Auto-play mp4 files from Browser

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I recently re-flashed my phone to a ROM I was running before however the functionality of one thing is not consistent. Before when I would click a file in the browser (an mp4 in this case) it would bring up the prompt to choose a video player. Now when clicking an mp4 file, android wants to save the file to the SD card and gives me no choice on playing it. I've tried setting a video player as default to play mp4's, this works in ES File Explorer when clicking on it however from both the Android stock browser as well as Dolphin Browser it only wants to save the file and never prompts to play it. Is there somewhere within the android OS I can choose file extensions I would like it to automatically play?

Edit: This shouldn't matter, but just in case, this is an Epic 4G running Legendary 2.2.

Thanks,
-Kosai

I'm having the same problem and it started a few days ago. I didn't reset the phone and to the best of my knowledge nothing has changed except for the save prompt. Any site with an mp4 will prompt to save the file instead of simply playing it. I have installed and reinstalled the browser with no luck. I also reset the browser features to default. Since it is also happening with the default browser I am suspecting something in the phone config.

My phone is Verizon Droid X2

What browser are you running?

Go to the market and make sure you have adobe flash player installed maybe that could help...also some roms don't play certain video codecs not sure if the one you are does or not but that might be the case

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