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| Thread ID: 125676 | 2012-07-12 03:03:00 | External HDD wont play on my TV. | Bryan (147) | Press F1 |
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| 1287966 | 2012-07-12 06:15:00 | Chill, you're giving me flashbacks to my "how to tell what codec your file uses, and how to find something that plays it" how-tos of previous magazine eras. <twitch> | Zara Baxter (16260) | ||
| 1287967 | 2012-07-12 06:23:00 | Thanks Chill. Please correct me if I'm wrong. What I would do is format the drive to FAT32 (so it will play on the TV). Then I would recreate a partition and then copy in the files. Have I missed anything? | Bryan (147) | ||
| 1287968 | 2012-07-12 07:24:00 | I find with my Panasonic tv the format has to be done through the tv itself (under options,then format) | sk69ersnz (13476) | ||
| 1287969 | 2012-07-12 07:32:00 | @Bryan, Delete the partition entirely, then re-create and format it as FAT32. sk69ersnz has a good point, your TV may have that option @Zara, Funny stuff :D it's good to have you posting on here more often too! |
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| 1287970 | 2012-07-12 21:19:00 | OK I have found the problem. I did reformat the drive and copied the video files back down. I was wondering if the fact that I had a 64 bit system might be a problem even by formatting as FAT32 so I could play it on the TV. Seems that wasn't the problem! What I did discover was that I was attempting to attach tha ext. HDD to the TV whilst the TV was turned on. I turned off the TV, made sure that the HDD was attached and turned on and thenI turned on the TV. This acted as a reboot and the HHD was finally recognised. Thank you all for your kind thoughts and I hope my solution could help someone in the future. |
Bryan (147) | ||
| 1287971 | 2012-07-12 22:40:00 | Good one. Seems these 'smart' TVs aren't quite smart enough, sometimes! | linw (53) | ||
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