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Bit of a strange one - i think, im no computer wizz!
I bought a new usb flash drive from ebay to store a load of films to take on holiday with me. its a 32gb drive.
ive put 8 .avi films on so far, they play fine from the drive on both my laptop and portable dvd player.
however all the others i try to copy on wont work. They play fine when saved to my laptop. But playing from the USB on the laptop or dvd player wont work. The video opens in VLC player but then never plays. The files are all around the same size.
anyone have any ideas!?
thanks
May be in a different container, were some of the files original Makosa file (.mkv)
im not sure i know what you mean? sorry
they were downloaded as .avi i have never changed them
What format is usb drive formatted (NTFS / FAT32 e.t.c.) as and what size are the films you are having trouble playing?
assuming windows, download the klite codec pack.. standard ver should be fine
http://www.codecguide.com/about_kl.htm
http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm
if its linux, look for the gstreamer plugins and see what you haven't got installed
the drive is formatted as fat32
the films are around 600 - 800mb.
i tried the codec pack but no luck. When i play the films in media player classic from the usb it says Cannot render the file. Still plays fine from the laptop.
thanks for all the help so far!
Rather than the file formats I'd maybe be suspicious about the USB memory, there are a lot of fakes about on eBay that have much less than the claimed memory, however they fool the computer into thinking the memory is there, so it can seem that you've saved a file there but in fact you haven't
doesnt seem to be a memory issue, i cleared the memory stick and put just one film that didnt work on, still no joy.
any more suggestions?
might be how the avi files were encoded (xvid, divx, etc) - i get the same with me telly. The TV will decode avis encoded one way but not the other (and i never remember which)