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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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| 1287956 | 2012-07-12 03:03:00 | I have a win7 64bit PC and a Samsung Syncmaster monitor. If I attach my ext. HDD (1 TB partitioned as FAT32) directly to the monitor I can read the content (mainly videos) without problem. Up until recently I could also play the HDD through the USB port on my 42" Panasonic TV. Now when I connect the ext. HDD to the TV I get two messages. 1. USB detected by the TV and 2. No disk detected. I am unable to get the TV to recognise the ext. HDD and I am wondering if anyone else might have a suggestion or solution. |
Bryan (147) | ||
| 1287957 | 2012-07-12 03:14:00 | Hi Bryan, I suspect you may have to format the drive to get it to be recognised again. You say the drive still works on the monitor, but have you checked that a flash drive (or alternate drive) works okay on the port so that you know it's not the TV USB port that's the problem? |
Zara Baxter (16260) | ||
| 1287958 | 2012-07-12 03:21:00 | Thanks Zara. Sorry I should have said. Yes a flashdrive with several random videos do work in the TV USB drive. The Ext. HDD has worked before on the TV and I suspect that just maybe something I have downloaded/added to the HDD has caused a corruption of some sort. Its as though the codecs might have changed on the HDD and aren't recognised by the TV's setup. |
Bryan (147) | ||
| 1287959 | 2012-07-12 03:22:00 | Is this a net capable TV and if so has it done any updates? | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1287960 | 2012-07-12 03:23:00 | What codecs. It doesnt need any. Is it connected by power? | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1287961 | 2012-07-12 04:14:00 | Yes it is net capable but I am unaware of any updates. My manual says that automatic updating is performed when the TV is at standby (TV is turned off by the remote) and this is what I do, so it is possible that the TV has been updated. And yes, I made sure that the power to the ext. HDD was on. |
Bryan (147) | ||
| 1287962 | 2012-07-12 04:39:00 | What codecs. It doesnt need any. Is it connected by power? err, everything needs codecs if it needs to read the file correctly! |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1287963 | 2012-07-12 04:54:00 | On a TV? | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1287964 | 2012-07-12 05:18:00 | They'll be built in to the software on the tv - divx for example. | wratterus (105) | ||
| 1287965 | 2012-07-12 05:54:00 | On a TV? Yup a codec is HOW it interprets the file. Doesn't matter if it's a TV, a PC, a Media Player or a Cellphone, it must have the correct codec support. Bryan, I'm presuming it's not the codecs because of the second error you get which points more to the HDD partitioning / layout / filesystem (Though not guaranteed). Don't just format, but entirely repartition the drive, just-in-case, and give that a go :) |
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