Video files on a DVD Player?

[Deleted User]

Just bought a Majority Lynfield, multi-region DVD Player.

As a DVD Player it works great, but I can't get it to play video files on a SD Card or USB Pen Drive.

The manual says it supports AVI, MPG, TS/TRP, JPG, JPEG, MP3 and WMA formats, but when I try to play AVI and MP4 video files (I've tried on both a SD Card and a USB Drive), it says "UNSUPPORTED FORMAT".

That said, it does recognise them as video files.

Any assistance much appreciated.

Inner_Zone

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EveryWhere

I means it is unsupported. It could be that it cannot play HD and/or Full HD files.

[Deleted User]

EveryWhere wrote: »

I means it is unsupported.

I realise that, but I don't understand why they aren't supported, given the manual says those file formats are supported.

EveryWhere

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

I realise that, but I don't understand why they aren't supported, given the manual says those file formats are supported.

I just told you. It might not be able to play HD and Full HD files. Not sure as to why you thought that it would.
It might play Xvid and MPEG-2. Can't see it playing MPEG-4 high definition media.

But try formatting the USB Flash drive to FAT32.

Have you switched the video output to PAL, as opposed to NTSC and audio to 'Stereo'?

EveryWhere

Look for websites that offer downloads of different video formats in order to test what can be played via USB;
https://standaloneinstaller.com/blog/big-list-of-sample-videos-for-testers-124.html
https://file-examples.com/index.php/sample-video-files/
https://sample-videos.com

Download some examples on to the USB flash drive, to see what plays and what does not.

capital0ne

EveryWhere wrote: »

But try formatting the USB Flash drive to FAT32.

I thought that but apparently the poster can see a file list. So the player is reading the usb device
Maybe it's case sensitve?
For what its worth my old blu-ray player can play most avi, mp4, VOb files, but occaisionaly it does say unsupported.

You could re-encode files till you find a format that works, do this with a small file till you find a solution. Good luck

esuhl

MP4 and AVI are containers that can contain "files" (streams) of audio and video. The containers support various codecs. The chances are the the DVD player only supports some codecs.
If you can find what codecs are supported, or find a file that works and look at the codec info in VLC, you should be able to convert the files you have into compatible ones using ffmpeg.