I recently bought and downloaded a movie from 'Play Movies & TV' application. It is not automatically detected by any other video player. So, where does the movie downloaded from 'Play Movies & TV' get stored in external SD card?
thefourtheyethefourtheye
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I just bought and downloaded the 90 minute Google 'AlphaGo' documentary movie in HD. It was about 2 GB in size.
It was saved on the SD card in this folder (I obscured the exact name with *):
Applications downloaded from Play Store can be moved to or installed on the SD card, if the developer has followed Android 4.4 guidelines. Applications preinstalled on your device, and their updates can not be moved to the SD card. Google Play Movies and Google Play Music will let you pin and download purchased content to the SD card. A short step-by-step guide for how to download Google Play movies to your SD card on your phone (20+ movies with a 64gb card). So watch this video and load up your SD card with movies for offline.
Android/data/com.google.android.videos/files/Movies/YXJh******NvbQ/ylEP****BE/
In that folder were 156 files with names like this made-up format:
0.163253726153.23764387642386.v3.exo
Each *.v3.exo file was about 2-25 MB in size. There was also a single file called
cached_content_index.exi
So I imagine the download was made into smaller chunks.
The '*.v3.exo' format is a YouTube format.
Jim HurleyJim Hurley
Well, the files downloaded from the Google Play Movies & TV goes over to the internal storage of the device you can find it over
sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.videos/files/Movies
, The files will be in the
.wvm
format like abc.wvm
. Andrew T.♦
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Play Movies now allows downloading to SD card.
Play movies on Android 5.0 (maybe other versions too) has always allowed you to 'Pin' copies of movies and tv shows to play offline.
Previously it only allowed you to do this to internal storage. Now it allows you to choose the external SD card as the download location.
The movies and tv shows are still DRM encrypted and will not play on other devices, but those of us with 64 gig cards can now finally take advantage of the extra storage space for movies.
Image for proof:
Free Movies Download Sites
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