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How do I attach a video larger than 16 MB in Whatsapp

It is not uncommon to see videos larger than 100 MB on whatsapp sent as a video clip. How is that accomplished? I tried to find it on the internet. I know there are some obvious ways like the ...
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New Phone > Videos received via Whatsapp play in Gallery but not in Whatsapp anymore

I've spent hours on this and am amazed there is no obvious answer from googling. I got a new phone, a Google Pixel 4a. I am transferring data and settings from my old phone, an HTC One M8. I made a ...
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WhatsApp sending videos with low quality

Using a Samsung Galaxy A30s and the WhatsApp Messenger (Beta) version 2.21.12.15. Anytime I send a video, be that filmed within the app or externally, it loses all the image quality. What can be done ...
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WhatsApp video doesn't play and has a warning icon (Video format h264 not supported)

Using WhatsApp version 2.20.206.24 on a Huawei Y9 2019 with Android 9. Received the following video (i tested both forwarding and sending the video directly - on both cases i faced the same problem) ...
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Compress a video for android using ffmpeg

I'm trying to compress a video to send it around in a messenger. Normally I would use something like ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vcodec libx265 -crf 28 output.mp4 but if I send it around in a messenger app ...
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Wrong aspect ratio for video sent with WhatsApp (only when trimmed)

When I take videos with my Sony Alpha 5000 and transfer them to my Android device, the aspect ratio looks fine in all players tested (F-Stop, VLC, MX Player Pro, ES Media-Player). When I send such a ...
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playing WhatsApp videos with your default MX Player on Android

in the past WhatsApp videos opened by default in the video player you annoted on Android as the default video player. in my case all videos in my Android phone (an Xperia z ) will open with MX player ...
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Issue with WhatsApp's downloaded videos

I have got a new Moto G4 Plus. When I tap to play a downloaded video message, I tap it many times but it doesn't play. However, when I go back to all chats and return to the message, it then opens ...
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Can I set a custom caption image for the Video sent over WhatsApp?

Videos sent and received on WhatsApp has one of the random frame from video as caption image. Any idea, how this image is chosen and is it possible to change it? For example in my 01:06 min video, ...
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How to identify the WhatsApp sender of a media while playing it from the gallery?

When media are received through WhatsApp groups and contacts, they are stored in the storage and are available for the media scanner to list them. When I view the WhatsApp videos folder in MXPlayer, I ...
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Turn animated gif into WhatsApp sendable video

I'd like to convert a short gif-animation to a video so I can send it to a friend via WhatsApp. Do you know easy ways to accomplish that (e.g. codec etc.)? Best would be doing it on the device ...
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Where to upload video files? to have online video albums? To share them for WhatsAPP apps

I am having lot of Video files which are my personal to give to my girl friend. My girl friend personal video files are also to send to me. Now both together, i want to keep them as Album, Which i ...
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