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Default "The media being played is is of an usnsupported format" - 07-08-2007, 11:07 PM
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Originally Posted by dvaskelis View Post
I didn't see any messages there about Verizon locking out video content... and it certainly works fine on my Verizon BlackBerry 8830 using Roxio Media Manager and Media Player.

BTW, Media Player is *much* more stable, snappier, and responsive with the new BlackBerry OS firmware that's stickied at the top of this forum.
Wow, you must not be reading the posts.

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Default 05-19-2007, 01:03 AM
anyone get video to work for the 8830? i've tried all sorts of codecs... no luck..

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Default 05-19-2007, 11:44 PM
Clamder- I'm curious if you are getting an error with it. I also have an 8830 and for every video am getting a "The media being played is is of an usnsupported format" error, even if I've converted it with the converter..

I also downloaded some of the videos from the seabyrd website and transfered it to the blackberry and got the same error(s). Anyone else seeing this? help?


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Default 05-20-2007, 09:33 AM
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Clamder- I'm curious if you are getting an error with it. I also have an 8830 and for every video am getting a "The media being played is is of an usnsupported format" error, even if I've converted it with the converter..

I also downloaded some of the videos from the seabyrd website and transfered it to the blackberry and got the same error(s). Anyone else seeing this? help?
I'm hearing reports on HOFO boards that users are finding out that VZW, in addition to crippling the GPS on the 8830 also modified the media player as a means of allowing users to access VCAST content. Could it be that they intentionally crippled certain codecs on the 8830's media player?


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Default 05-21-2007, 07:45 AM
I'll give that a try, thanks for the info.

(Sounds like runamuck is correct: Verizon has definitely crippled the GPS feature and even the media player with 'normal' codecs. Thanks Verizon ;-(




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