Why am I not able to play .avi videos on my Lumia phone?

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.avi videos on lumia phones

I noticed that when I incerted my android memory card into my Lumia 630, the xbox video was able to sync and play the avi videos on the memory card, why?

 

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Re: .avi videos on lumia phones

Android devices use the Fat32 format on cards as a default... Likewise Windows Phone. Your 630 was therefore able to read the card.

Is there a problem? Were you expecting file encryption or something to block contents of the card from being viewed?