The video data produced my phones has become so great and powerful, that when we want to share it with other people, it becomes difficult.
I was making a post today for my website, and I wanted to add two videos to show that show the finished product and one I took of the process itself.
Took the source files, added them to my Google drive, downloaded them to my desktop, and added them to the media library. Media library says it’s not supported.
It’s an MP4. It is the most basic video file for anything. How could it “not be supported?”
I check to see if Windows Media Player can play it.
“HEVC player is required. Please pay $.99 to play this video.”
This MP4 came from my phone? How can my desktop not play this?
VLC player (The greatest video player) could play it though, so I need that tells me everything I needed to know. The capability of the smartphone technology is incredible, and the average user needs to increase their level of technological understanding before they are left behind. I had to compress the video file from a free website (God Bless) to get them to work, decreasing the file size by greater than 50%.
This also happens when sending videos from Android devices to Apple devices. It would be so simple to make sure they are converted to a proper size before they are exported/dowloaded.
Think about all the space you could save on your phone. Chances are that most of your video files and photo are not compressed, and you are wasting so much space because of that, and more people know that than you think.
Apple and Google charges for extra space in your cloud storage, but can’t learn to compress the files they are making on their own devices?
I cannot even think about how many pictures you, the readerm, have on your phone, because I cannot even fathom my own picture count.