Too Many Videos On Phone - Help

[mandimoo]

My phone does video in mp4 quality. My laptop is of an age whereby it doesn't. We have an external hard drive for the laptop.

If I transfer my mp4 quality videos to the laptop, for the purpose of moving them to the external hard drive, will the laptop screw up the videos cos it doesn't understand them?

My phone is so full, it's not working properly. I'm desperate to safely move these videos. But if anything happens to them in the process I will be heartbroken, as it is all video of the first 2 years of my daughters life!

Call me silly if you like, but I don't trust Google to keep these for me, I would be much happier having a back up copy too.

[hc4361]

mp4 isn't a new technology and should play just fine on your laptop. Do you mean HD?

[mandimoo]

Oh dear, i don't know know now. Hubby told me that's what it was but he's not very technical either! Maybe I do mean that.

Same question as above then..... Just replace mp4 with HD!

[hc4361]

Firstly copy one of the videos to your laptop and then right click on it and then click 'properties'.
That will tell you exactly what sort of file you have.

If it is .mp4 this software will play it:
http://www.downloadster.org/lp/vlc-player/356/?_u=bbd82effpnosaskamsbi67fbtqcat8acrcsphis94bckbbop4sv1-2c020f56f1fb316da8b974fb8a94ef9d

I would recommend that to anybody - it will play any music and video format and is perfectly safe.

You are right to save your precious videos in several places. A cheap and stable way is on dvd, if your laptop has a dvd burner as well as an external hard drive. I have no problem with saving video in the cloud as an extra copy, in fact it can be handy to be able to access the file from any pc or phone with internet connection at times. You can't have too many copies!

If the videos are in hd, copying them to your external hard drive won't affect them but if your laptop isn't hd it will only display in standard format.

[bhg481]

Just to expand on what hc4361 says, even if your laptop won't play them they won't be spoilt at all. If you wanted to watch one you could just copy it back to your phone, or anywhere else for that matter, and play it there.
As hc4361 says, you can't have too many copies of important stuff.