MKV playback: Is this one compatible with files larger than 4Gbs?
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yes. I put a 11gb MKV of a bluray rip. Played fine. The MKV was on a thumbdrive which was formatted NTFS
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I haven't used this feature much, but it has played an MKV file via a thumb drive on the USB port. I don't remember which audio/video codecs that MKV used. The Samsung page on it says that it plays "MPEG-2, MPEG-4, JPEG, DivX HD, AVCHD, MKV, WMV" formats. http://www.samsung.com/us/video/blu-ray-dvd/BD-F5100/ZA-specs Hope that helps, -Dan
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A better question is what format will it not play. I have been able to play divx 4.x and 5.x,asi .mp4,vob,mov and .mkv 4:3&16:9 video files off of a usb on it. This is very nice if you have a lot of personal video files that you want to watch on your tv without having to do extra work converting and burning the video files to disc. I use a 1 tb external drive for storage(to play) and I have an external WD 2.5 500gb for recording with no problems. Be sure to download and install the update software first thing. Also if you are going to record from it be sure and format the drive to ntfs or you will have multiple files for each recording.(unless that is what you want)
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I have only tried it with 2gb. I read somwhere it won't handle anything higher. You might be able to get away with more if you use folders with only 2gb in it. If you are interested I could try it and let you know.By the way, mine works great, this was probably the best tape/mpe idea I have ever had! I love mine.
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I tried to play a USB with mine. I used a 8gb flash drive and tried to play a 1.6gb mp4 file and a 756mb mp4 file. Each time it said the file type was unsupported.
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iburned a mkv file to a DVDR. when i tried to play it, the LG 570 displayed it is a "data disk" and then showed the opening menu. what am I doing wrong?
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That is how I burn MKV to a DVD-R disc--as a DATA disc. Then when it comes up, I select it and it plays, unless it happens to be something the LG doesn't like. There are a few videos in MKV containers it will not play on disc but will play on a USB stick.
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I have the same problem, and I understand it is to do with the way the audio was encoded when the mkv was made, and what the encoder was intending the file to be played on.There is lots of discussion about it here: http://forum1.netgear.com/showthread.php?t=56433&page;=3and it may be fixable. I have not tried yet.HTH
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I suppose you can. It delivers AVCHD 1920x1080 files, so any modern software should be able to handle it. I know when I preview video, the windows player opens and plays it easily.
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It's a very picky player. Sometimes it does but most of the time it doesn't, and I'm not sure what the encoding requirements are to make it one of those special mp4's that will work. This player here Androset 1080P-TVBOX 1080p HD USB HDMI SD/MMC Multi TV Media Player RMVB MKV 50 (Black 1080p tv box) will though. I have both of these players and the URL I pasted is a far better player in my opinion.
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I have very positive experiences from using GOM player in playing many different media formats. It automatically find codecs and everything. Perhaps you should give it a try for the new AVCHD format also.
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It will play MP4 will always, and it seems to be 75% with RMVB. I am not sure why it will not play all of my RMVB files? but it does play most of them.
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The max I have used is a 32 gig. I also noticed that the instructions states it supports mp4, but that's incorrect. I can only get avi to play.
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It has an older version of XMBC on it, so you can launch that - you'll have to navigate the file sources from inside the menu to find the mkv file, but generally yes. There may be issues with accelerated decoding, HD video from a usb thumb drive may be choppy.I would heartily recommend you install the latest version of XBMC, it was recently renamed to Kodi http://kodi.tv/download/
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I tested an mp4 and it plays them. though I don't know what encoding was used
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I use a SD card with FAT 32 and the video format i use is XVID AVI (MP4) or DIVX seems to work best.
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Works very well for me. I have tried mkv, avi, and mp4 with no problems at all. Only issue I have is if it is a blu-ray "backup" it will not play that. Any other "backup" from standard dvd's plays perfectly. I have been very pleased with the quality of this device in all aspects other than the blu-ray backups. Hope this helps.