Using USB for films

[Tom27]

I've just had a 8GB USB stick come through the post today.
I then copied 3-4 movies onto the USB and plugged it into my TV; It lets me open the folders e.g. "The Human Centipede", but then nothing is inside the folder, although there actually is.

Any idea how I can view these videos?
I'm assuming its a simple case of converting the file, but where would I convert it? and in which format?

 

[Far]

completely depends on the formats and codecs that your TV accepts. Read the manual and find which ones it reads, then convert your films to that.

 

[Tom27]

Okay cheers, any idea which programme to use for converting?

 

[Tai]

Also depends what TV you have...the usb port on mine is only for viewing images, you can't play videos from it.

 

[Ardbeg]

The other alternative is for your pc to play the film and output the signal to the PC Input of your telly.
Easy if your pc's a lappy, not so easy if its a tower !

 

[Tai]

Or use something like Xbox usb.

 

[Skyline]

Doesn't xbox allow you to stream from a PC?

 

[Tom27]

Ive got a shabby Technika, ive figured that by tv supports fat32(USB) and xvid format.
Only problem I now have, is once the file has been converted to xvid the file goes from 800mb to 5.5gb.
My USB is 8GB, and i get the message "file is too big". Aparently the biggest file you can copy at one time is 4gb which leaves me prettymuch stumped unless the film is shorter than 1 hour 30 ;/

Any solutions?

 

[Far]

yeah thats a feature of fat32 unfortunately, max file size of 4 GB minus 1 byte.

surely it supports more than just xvid?