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RE: Movies playing on a USB stick - bell-auto-services - 28-10-2011 10:10pm

Found in the link above. though ive not ued it lol.

http://www.divx.com/en/software/divx-plus/converter

Pete


RE: Movies playing on a USB stick - dandavis1 - 31-10-2011 11:58am

That Divx converter doesn't work. It won't convert Handbraked movies.


RE: Movies playing on a USB stick - fam1x - 01-11-2011 11:27pm

Has anyone tried conecting a USB portable Hard Drive and see if you can play videos from that ?


RE: Movies playing on a USB stick - bell-auto-services - 01-11-2011 11:33pm

Yes I have and the one i tried didnt get seen at all Sad

Pete


RE: Movies playing on a USB stick - PhilSkill - 01-11-2011 11:47pm

Pete, did the disk get powered up when it was connected to the usb port? e.g. did a power led come on, on the disk unit?


RE: Movies playing on a USB stick - bell-auto-services - 01-11-2011 11:55pm

Yes it powered but it was just not seen from the car, it was full of folders of misic just as my usb pen is so it should have seen it but didnt Sad

It did have some other stuff on also though i assumed it would have just ignored that stuff and gave me the music but it was to good to be true at least for this HD anyway. I have now got a 32gig usb pen to try instead when time lets me.
Pete


RE: Movies playing on a USB stick - fam1x - 02-11-2011 01:07am

(01-11-2011 11:33pm)bell-auto-services Wrote:  Yes I have any the one i tried didnt get seen at all Sad

Pete

Pete, do you know what format the USB drive is NTFS or fat32? I think if you have windows 7 or vista and formatted the USB drive with that. The car wont be able to see the drive.


RE: Movies playing on a USB stick - bell-auto-services - 02-11-2011 08:33am

It was a borrowed drive but I think it was NTFS. I have another drive I'll give that a go on.

Pete


RE: Movies playing on a USB stick - DaveR - 02-11-2011 08:51am

I think the manual states only FAT or FAT32 formated drives are supported.

It also says:
Land Rover does not recommend the
use of a Hard Disc Drive via the USB link
while the vehicle is in motion. These
devices are not designed for in car use
and may be damaged.

So presumably a correctly formatted HD should work at the risk of the disk suffering from the vibration and shocks experienced during vehicle movement although a good external Solid State Drive (SSD) would be the answer to this if it would work ok.


RE: Movies playing on a USB stick - dandavis1 - 02-11-2011 09:42am

(02-11-2011 08:51am)DaveR Wrote:  Land Rover does not recommend the
use of a Hard Disc Drive via the USB link
while the vehicle is in motion. These
devices are not designed for in car use
and may be damaged.

Even though the satnav works off a hard disk drive...