How to play files larger than 4GB ?

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Is it possible to play big .mkv files of 5-9GB on the Galaxy Note ?
If yes, can we just format SD Card to NTFS and the phone will recogonize it... OR do i have to do sum rooting and sum complex stuff for the phone to identify the card?

Also, can we play big files frm phones internal memory ?

I dont have the device myself, but by using lots of different Android devices, I would think it wont read NTFS drivers. I have used some Honeycomb tablet that had modules and custom apps to mount NTFS drives.

I think the device should support EXT2 formatted card, but if you were using linux with that filesystem already you wouldn't ask this.

I use softwares like AviDemux to split the MKV file. Also is there actually any Android software that provides hardware acceleration for MKV files, otherwise I would think HD MKV files would struggle to play smoothly.

Originally Posted by eksasol

I dont have the device myself, but by using lots of different Android devices, I would think it wont read NTFS drivers. I have used some Honeycomb tablet that had modules and custom apps to mount NTFS drives.

I think the device should support EXT2 formatted card, but if you were using linux with that filesystem already you wouldn't ask this.

I use softwares like AviDemux to split the MKV file. Also is there actually any Android software that provides hardware acceleration for MKV files, otherwise I would think HD MKV files would struggle to play smoothly.

Hull 1080p, works fine. Many videos on youtube!

Note can't play files over 4gb. Use an mkv splitter instead.

Using Es file manager network access + dice player worked well watching mkv files > 8GB over a network share.
Of course this approach may not be suitable for everybody.

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Originally Posted by Sharpshooterrr

Note can't play files over 4gb. Use an mkv splitter instead.

What software actually just split the files and dont actually recode/encode them, so that the procedure is completed in a minute? please suggest a few...

Also, are you referring to this software?
http://www.mkvsplitter.com/

Sproxy,
Tht seems too complicated to sum1 who never used android before!

Sry Double post

I am sry but i have to bump this, as i am still looking answer to my last post above ^ [#6]

You can use MKVToolNix to easily split without re-encoding the files...

Originally Posted by RenkliArif

You can use MKVToolNix to easily split without re-encoding the files...

Seconded, with mkvtoolnix it's actually very easy to do this, just load up the file, give a new file output name, set the file to split every e.g. 4000M and go.

It will take a while, but you get a serially-named group of files which are (as far as I can tell) exactly the same as the input, but split into 4000MB chunks. Dead easy.