[Q] Whatsapp and video viewing problem... - myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

For some reason, everytime I try to view a video in Whatsapp, my MyTouch 4G tries loading Twobile Screen Share. This didn't used to happen. Can someone give me ANY ideas as to why this might be happening?? It's so frustrating. I used to be able to view videos fine in whatsapp and now it's like it wants to use Twobile as it's default viewer?? So strange. I can't seem to reassign the default video viewer either.
PLEASE help, if you have any thoughts.

You've gone into settings>apps>whatever app its opening in and clearing defaults?
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There aren't any defaults set in whatsapp or the stupid Screen Share program. Whatsapp used to use the stock gallery media player to play videos. Should I uninstall and reinstall whatsapp?

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jcurran.jc said:
Hey
Little problem with too many pics in my gallery. A lot of them are album art
Is there any advice to stop these from showing in my gallery?
Thanks
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Use QuickPic from Play Store, and you can choose which folders to show i your gallery.
Just a suggestion if you want to use 3rd party apps to solve your problem.
How many years and this is still a problem???????
I still have not found the answer.
Do not want to install a 3rd party app.
.nomedia does not work.
embedding will take forever with the amount of albums one has.
tried renaming music folder to media but art still showed up in gallery.
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Yathani said:
Hello everyone,
When I try to play a video i get a pop up asking me which app to use. So i select Samsung video player then click always. But at some point the pop up will come back again asking me the same thing. Any idea how to fix it?
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Does the pop up come up after you install another app that has the same function? If so, that is the reason. If not..??? Try deleting the cache???
SiNJiN76 said:
Does the pop up come up after you install another app that has the same function? If so, that is the reason. If not..??? Try deleting the cache???
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Thanks for your reply.
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Yathani said:
Thanks for your reply.
I managed to find the problem but I don't know how to fix it. If i chose video player as default it works fine even when I restart the phone, but once I open a video from whatsapp i get the same massage. This massage will erase my default player setting as will outside of whatsapp.
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Each app has to be told which Default app to use. After you choose a default app in whatsapp you don't have to select it again when you use whatsapp again, right? But if you go into another app that needs to play a video, you also need to train that app to which video player you want as default.
I think that's what's happening in your case, hopefully. . Good luck.
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