Android Video Playback Masterclass

Understand the ins and outs of mobile video playback and make the most of your Android phone or tablet. Darren Yates explains.

For many of us, the only thing we need to know about mobile video playback is how to install the Netflix or Stan apps. But while binge-watching your favourite shows is all well and good, it’s not the only way to watch video content on your mobile device. Whether you store your content on your phone, PC or local network-attached storage (NAS), there are plenty of tricks to optimising video playback on a portable device. ASSUMING THE BASICS We won’t cover the basics here, we’ll just assume you understand that a video file consists of three key elements — a file container format, a video data stream compressed using a video compression format or ‘codec’, and a similar separate stream for audio. You probably even already know popular file containers…

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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2019

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