Video on Pandigital Novel (Android 2.1)

curiousDave · 06-26-2013, 03:11 PM

My 7" Pandigital Novel serves my purposes pretty well, though a bit on the heavy side. The BN reader program (Epub), photo viewer, audio player all work OK. Only problem is video playback.
The video player is supposed to play .mov, .mog3 and .mpg4 formats and it will play some videos in each format. Mostly, however, it plays the audio but no video. To the best of my knowledge none of the non-playing videos have any DRM so that shouldn't be the problem. I've compared the properties of the playable vs. non-playable videos and nothing really stands out as being the difference.
Anyone have any ideas?
(For purposes of discussion, this is just another android based device. Unlocked, you might say.)

ApK · 06-26-2013, 03:33 PM

The device may just not have enough horsepower to decode some video properly.
If it is "just another android based device" you might want to try installing MX Player and see if one of its decoders can do a better job.

curiousDave · 06-26-2013, 07:32 PM

That's a good idea. Will give it a try!

exscentric · 06-27-2013, 10:14 AM

I would second the trying of another reader. The pandigital was kind of limited to start with. I had a couple for a few months, good unit but on the border of underpowered.

There were some forums that dealt with it - if you google for pandigital forum you might find them.

There were some updates that made them a little more to the liking of many.

There was always a battery discharging problem with them. If you run into that get a task killer and kill everything each time you shut it off and it works fairly nicely. Some also had a problem of the unit turning on for no apparent reason which may have been part of the discharge problems as well :-)

My grandkids still use our old ones - they were nice units.

06-26-2013, 03:11 PM	#1
curiousDave Member Posts: 13 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: none	Video on Pandigital Novel (Android 2.1) My 7" Pandigital Novel serves my purposes pretty well, though a bit on the heavy side. The BN reader program (Epub), photo viewer, audio player all work OK. Only problem is video playback. The video player is supposed to play .mov, .mog3 and .mpg4 formats and it will play some videos in each format. Mostly, however, it plays the audio but no video. To the best of my knowledge none of the non-playing videos have any DRM so that shouldn't be the problem. I've compared the properties of the playable vs. non-playable videos and nothing really stands out as being the difference. Anyone have any ideas? (For purposes of discussion, this is just another android based device. Unlocked, you might say.)

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
Pandigital - orphaned eReader Video News	Thrasher	More E-Book Readers	0	11-22-2012 10:09 PM
Pandigital Android Multimedia Tablet & Color EReader	gilamon75	Introduce Yourself	5	12-31-2011 06:40 AM
Bought a Pandigital 8" SuperNova Android Tablet...	ClairePMR	Android Devices	0	12-19-2011 04:14 PM
Pandigital Novel Video	lartomar2002	Android Devices	2	03-25-2011 05:29 PM
Pandigital Novel: Color LCD eBook Reader that Runs Android Apps	Wetdogeared	News	11	05-31-2010 04:16 PM

06-26-2013, 03:33 PM	#2
ApK Award-Winning Participant Posts: 7,316 Karma: 67862884 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: NJ, USA Device: Kindle	The device may just not have enough horsepower to decode some video properly. If it is "just another android based device" you might want to try installing MX Player and see if one of its decoders can do a better job.

06-26-2013, 07:32 PM	#3
curiousDave Member Posts: 13 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: none	That's a good idea. Will give it a try!

06-27-2013, 10:14 AM	#4
exscentric Addict Posts: 379 Karma: 1033424 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: WY Device: Kindle keyboard	I would second the trying of another reader. The pandigital was kind of limited to start with. I had a couple for a few months, good unit but on the border of underpowered. There were some forums that dealt with it - if you google for pandigital forum you might find them. There were some updates that made them a little more to the liking of many. There was always a battery discharging problem with them. If you run into that get a task killer and kill everything each time you shut it off and it works fairly nicely. Some also had a problem of the unit turning on for no apparent reason which may have been part of the discharge problems as well :-) My grandkids still use our old ones - they were nice units.

Advert