longdoggg Posted December 21, 2009 Posted December 21, 2009 This has stumped me all weekend so hopefully one of you guys can think of something I haven't. I have a Silver Crest DVD Player model Dp-5300x. it has a USB input that I have successfully used with USB sticks for music and video files. The largest stick I use in it is 4GB. Clever me thought I'd buy a portable HDD and plug that in with lots of files on rather than copy files to the USB sticks. I bought an Iomega 250GB 2.5" HDD and reformatted it to FAT32. The DVD recognised it as a USB device but could not recognised any media file I put on it. Then I created a smaller partition of 125GB and tried again..... still no luck. Any other ideas guys? Ross Quote
Dalo Harkin Posted December 21, 2009 Posted December 21, 2009 what format are the files you are trying to use? DVD players like the one you have are not as willing to play files that a PC can such as divx and Mpeg4, most newer DVD players can use divx format, but have a look in the manual and see the file types it can support, as that I think would be your main issue Quote Intel Q6600 @ 4Ghz (Watercooled)Asus P5K premium black pearl4GB OCZ Reaper 8500260GTX Join Free PC Help - Register here Donations are welcome - here PC Build We are all members helping other members.Please return here where you may be able to help someone else.After all, no one knows everything and you may have the answer that someone needs.
longdoggg Posted December 21, 2009 Author Posted December 21, 2009 Hi, thanks for the reply. The files I'm trying to play are same that play fine from the USB sticks. The main types I have played are .mp3, .wav, .avi, .mpeg and jpeg. I'm mystified at the moment why they play from the USB stick and not even recognised on the USB hard drive. Today I have read a forum with a guy having a similar problem. He found that a 30GB partition, FAT32, worked. But I thought that's defeated the whole idea of trying to use a large hard drive to store all the videos. Regards, Ross Quote
Dalo Harkin Posted December 23, 2009 Posted December 23, 2009 It all depends on what your dvd player can and cant read (most external devices such as USB sticks are formatted in FAT32) I have an xbox 360 that can only read FAT32 and a PS3 that can read either. It will say in the dvd player manual what formats are supprted and it should reference FAT32 or NTFS too If you are struggling still then give me a link to the dvd player you have :) Quote Intel Q6600 @ 4Ghz (Watercooled)Asus P5K premium black pearl4GB OCZ Reaper 8500260GTX Join Free PC Help - Register here Donations are welcome - here PC Build We are all members helping other members.Please return here where you may be able to help someone else.After all, no one knows everything and you may have the answer that someone needs.
Plastic Nev Posted December 24, 2009 Posted December 24, 2009 I think Dalo has the answer in the file storage system, try changing it to FAT only if possible, it will of course limit the size of each file though as FAT can't handle large file sizes. Next is to try NTFS if FAT isn't recognised. Quote Need help with your computer problems? Then why not join Free PC Help. Register here. If Free PC Help has helped you then please consider a donation. Click here We are all members helping other members. Please return here where you may be able to help someone else. After all, no one knows everything and you may have the answer that someone needs. -------------------------------------------------------------------- I have installed Windows, now how do I install the curtains? 😄
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