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Willravel · 12-15-2009, 07:04 PM

I recently discovered a USB plug on my HDTV, which it turns out can play media. I tested it by putting the Avatar 1080p video on my 4GB flash drive and plugging it in. Nothing. So I went online and looked around and found that, apparently, the Samsung USB software doesn't recognize the Mac OS format of the flash drive. Fine. I opened up Disk Utility and erased the drive, formatting in what's called "MS-DOS (FAT)" on Mac, but what' most other folks call FAT32. I put the trailer back on the drive and presto, I was watching a 1080p video off the USB flash drive without so much as a skip.

Emboldened, I grabbed my 16GB usb flash drive and reformatted it to FAT32 so I could put feature-length 1080p videos on it, which are considerably larger than 4GB. It formatted without a problem, but when I tried to drag and drop Star Trek in 1080p into the drive, there was an error. I've been able to use the drive for this same file before when it was Mac OS formatted, so I went hunting online. Crap. According to Google, FAT32 has a file size limit of 4GB minus 1 byte.

Should I just go into each movie and edit them into pieces, having to switch files a few times during a viewing? Or is there something I'm missing? I have the Samsung LN40B630 40" LCD and a SanDisk 16GB Cruzer flash drive, in case that helps.

12-15-2009, 07:04 PM	#1 (permalink)
Willravel ... a sort of licensed troubleshooter.	FAT32 file size and my HDTV I recently discovered a USB plug on my HDTV, which it turns out can play media. I tested it by putting the Avatar 1080p video on my 4GB flash drive and plugging it in. Nothing. So I went online and looked around and found that, apparently, the Samsung USB software doesn't recognize the Mac OS format of the flash drive. Fine. I opened up Disk Utility and erased the drive, formatting in what's called "MS-DOS (FAT)" on Mac, but what' most other folks call FAT32. I put the trailer back on the drive and presto, I was watching a 1080p video off the USB flash drive without so much as a skip. Emboldened, I grabbed my 16GB usb flash drive and reformatted it to FAT32 so I could put feature-length 1080p videos on it, which are considerably larger than 4GB. It formatted without a problem, but when I tried to drag and drop Star Trek in 1080p into the drive, there was an error. I've been able to use the drive for this same file before when it was Mac OS formatted, so I went hunting online. Crap. According to Google, FAT32 has a file size limit of 4GB minus 1 byte. Should I just go into each movie and edit them into pieces, having to switch files a few times during a viewing? Or is there something I'm missing? I have the Samsung LN40B630 40" LCD and a SanDisk 16GB Cruzer flash drive, in case that helps.