Problem Playing film from USB stick on TV

waterwatereverywhere

Hi,

We have a Samsung LCD TV which has a USB port.

We plugged in a portable drive and are able to play music fine through the TV and to display digital photos and also play some home movies/copied movies etc.

What we cannot play are programmes which we have downloaded from BBC iPlayer. We used the BBC iPlayer website "download" service and saved the programme to the portable drive. The downloaded films will play fine on the PC (from the portable drive) but won't play on the TV.

The format is "wmv". The TV manual says that it can play wmv format files but the TV will only display a "format not supported" error message.

BBC's website says to watch a few seconds of the download on the PC and then you should be able to watch it on other devices but we've tried that and it still doesn't play on the TV.

Please can anyone help?

The TV is a Samsung Series 4 - the model is LE32C450E1W.

Many thanks in advance.

bertie1989

I got a sammy TV as well. I now and then run into problems where the manual says it will play a certain format and it wont play. It is normally down to the audio codec of the video file. Only thing i would recommend is to try convert the video file. Not sure if the iplayer content is DRM free though never used it before

Lifeforms

iplayer downloads do have DMR. That will be why it wont play.

The portable devices download may work, but as a smaller size, then the quality will not be as good as the full download. You need to follow the instructions below and play on the desktop first.
http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/downloading/whats_sideloading

If that's the download you have already tried, no idea. I've found that I can't get it to work before that way with things like media players, so never bothered from the first time. Just found it elsewhere to download

waterwatereverywhere

Hello

Many thanks for your replies.

Yes, it was the download for "portable devices" that we used. It plays fine on the PC it was originally downloaded to. It will also play on a laptop from the portable drive, just not on the TV.

How would I "convert" the file to something which the TV can play, or is this too much hassle? Is there somewhere else you can download BBC programmes from that wouldn't have this problem?

Thx again.

knuckledragger

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