You might have encountered many times a message saying “Can’t play video” or “Sorry, this file cannot be played” while trying to play a video in a player or even during online streaming. Today after searching on lot of forums and Q&A sites I have come up with the potential solutions to fix the problem of unable to play video on Android.
- For video playback problem in video player or WhatsApp videos you can try to uninstall Google Plus updates.
Go to Settings>Apps/Application manager>Google Plus app>Uninstall Updates.
There is a weird relation between video playing and G+ app, most probably the G+ updates modify some system files causing the problem. Check for video file format and make sure it is with •(dot) extension.
- For YouTube streaming a simple reboot should get it working again, you can also check for network connectivity.
Clearing cache can also resolve the problem. Go to Setting>App manager>YouTube>Clear Cache. You can also uninstall the Twitter app, reboot device and check for YouTube.
For other streaming services like from Facebook make sure you have not enabled video playing only when connected to wifi.
- For Android Lollipop and above users, if video playback and/or online streaming services like YouTube are causing issues. You can try this potential method, Go to Setting>About phone, tap 7 times on Build version to unlock developers option in setting. Scroll down in developers option until you see entry under media called Use AwesomePlayer (deprecated) and enable it. If it previously enabled disable it, reboot your device to check for the fix.
You can also uninstall the G+ updates for the video playback fix.
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Note: This fixes should help in video playbacks and online streaming. If you are facing any issue please comment below.
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I have movie hd on my s5..was working fine and now..all I get is can’t play video?wth..I tried unis tallinn Google updates still didn’t work…can someone please help…thanks
Jason ciehosko
Same here bro !!
Megabox says can’t play video. Tried everything, help please.
Still not working help please
Still can’t play video on my tablet, I don’t keep well and as an old lady l am housebound and look forward to these films. Can you help please.
Does anyone know any app please
Sun next app play back error. Uninstall and re install this but same problem.
When I play a video on YouTube it just stops at the beginning and it won’t go any further. If I clear cache, it will play, but the video will turn black, so I can only hear video, but I can’t see it. But it’s not just YouTube, any videos on any other app, the videos that I filmed with my phone, literally any video can’t play. Just a message pops up saying “Error. Can’t play this video.” The only solution I found was to reset the phone. Then I can play videos for a few hours, and then I have to reset it again. I don’t want to reset my phone every time I want to watch videos, so I need help. I’m using ZTE Blade A512 (Android 6.0.1), please help me if you can!!!!
Hey guys.
Moviehd is no longer available. Its been shut down for good. Any site that says it will fix it is bogus. All they want you to do is downloading apps that will infect your phone, table or computer.
My android won’t play any videos at all, not in my gallery, Instagram, or on YouTube. I totally deleted my Google + out of frustration, & hv cleared cache for YouTube. Could someone please tell me what to do? Thanks?
Does anyone have a problem with Firestick Freeflix app on downloads to ES File Explorer? A message comes up: “Media error. Sorry, cannot play this video”?
I hv recorded a few nice memories video using a dashcam. But when transfer that sdcard to preview into my android and computer, it won’t play at all. So many player I tried to such us VLC, Real Player, GOM, Wmedia player even classic media player and several player, it’s failed.
I’m really sad because that video is my family went for vacation at overseas..
For admin information, my sdcard is new and capacity is 128gb. I hv check the details every single video was recorded, there hv name of recorded, date and duration time of recorded, and format in “.avi”…
Why this happen?
How to solve it?
Please help/ guide me out of this problem.