HTC Touch Pro: Any way to play decent video on the Redfly C8?

[baronkgc]

Has anyone found a way to just play a simple mp4 on the Redfly? I have the a/v cable and can play them on a TV, but it's frustrating that I can't actually watch one on the plane when I have this neat little terminal. Please help.

[Ed Hardy]

Is your device the C8N, or the original one, the C8?

If you have the video-out cable for your TV, then you can play video on a Redfly CAN. That's the version that came out last year.
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[baronkgc]

I'm just trying to play MP4's, like NBC nightly news or the Today show, that I've downloaded to my HTC phone. I have the C8 model. Thanks for the help.

[questionfear]

Originally Posted by baronkgc

I'm just trying to play MP4's, like NBC nightly news or the Today show, that I've downloaded to my HTC phone. I have the C8 model. Thanks for the help.

Unfortunately, the C8 does not support video. The Redfly doesn't do video at all when connected to the smartphone; the C8N has a video-out option that lets you watch video, but not while connected to your smartphone in viewer mode.

Does that make sense?

[Varjak]

So if this doesn't work with the cellphone plugged in, what supplies the actual video file? Is there a 'non-viewer' mode where the phone just 'drives' the display?

[baronkgc]

Yeah, I smugly bought one on eBay thinking it would replace my portable DVD player and eliminate the need for a Netbook. Turns out it's basically an extremely hard to use $100 keyboard and not much else.