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    From PeteFJ@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 5 19:40:50 2023
    I am trying to play a Toshiba 1TB H/D on my Panasonic T.V. The
    television recognises the HD and will display some of the contents of
    the disk, but not the ones I want to play. The files I need to play are
    shown as zipped. Would this be the reason the HD can't or won't play
    them? I am very confused over this. And this is very new to me.

    PeterFJ
    The email a ddress shown is false. To contact me email me at:

    peterATpfjamesDOTcoDOTuk

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  • From Jaimie Vandenbergh@21:1/5 to PeteFJ on Sun Mar 5 20:33:50 2023
    On 5 Mar 2023 at 19:40:50 GMT, "PeteFJ" <pfjames395@gmail.com> wrote:

    I am trying to play a Toshiba 1TB H/D on my Panasonic T.V. The
    television recognises the HD and will display some of the contents of
    the disk, but not the ones I want to play. The files I need to play are shown as zipped. Would this be the reason the HD can't or won't play
    them? I am very confused over this. And this is very new to me.


    Yes, unzip them. A TV definitely won't find them inside the zip.

    Even unzipped, TVs are *very* picky about which media files they'll
    read, so if they can't read your movies don't be surprised. Best thing
    to do is find ones they can read, take those to your Mac and open with
    VLC to see what encoding options they used, then re-encode the ones that
    don't work to the same as the ones that do work - using Handbrake or
    similar. Unfortunately media file encoding options are a steep learning curve...

    Cheers - Jaimie
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  • From Mark@21:1/5 to Jaimie Vandenbergh on Sun Mar 5 22:16:48 2023
    On 2023-03-05 20:33:50 +0000, Jaimie Vandenbergh said:

    On 5 Mar 2023 at 19:40:50 GMT, "PeteFJ" <pfjames395@gmail.com> wrote:

    I am trying to play a Toshiba 1TB H/D on my Panasonic T.V. The
    television recognises the HD and will display some of the contents of
    the disk, but not the ones I want to play. The files I need to play are
    shown as zipped. Would this be the reason the HD can't or won't play
    them? I am very confused over this. And this is very new to me.


    Yes, unzip them. A TV definitely won't find them inside the zip.

    Even unzipped, TVs are *very* picky about which media files they'll
    read, so if they can't read your movies don't be surprised. Best thing
    to do is find ones they can read, take those to your Mac and open with
    VLC to see what encoding options they used, then re-encode the ones that don't work to the same as the ones that do work - using Handbrake or
    similar. Unfortunately media file encoding options are a steep learning curve...

    Cheers - Jaimie

    When I couldn't play files from a USB stick on my TV I changed then
    with <https://subler.org>. I honestly don't know if it was .mkv to .mp4
    or .mp4 to .avi or... something, but a) it worked and b) it was quick.

    As Jaimie says it almost seemed like a black art (to me)! Still none
    the wiser here but at least I got the end result I wanted.
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    Cheers ... Mark

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  • From Sara Merriman@21:1/5 to Mark on Mon Mar 6 06:43:41 2023
    On 5 Mar 2023 at 22:16:48 GMT, "Mark" <captain.blackl@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 2023-03-05 20:33:50 +0000, Jaimie Vandenbergh said:

    On 5 Mar 2023 at 19:40:50 GMT, "PeteFJ" <pfjames395@gmail.com> wrote:

    I am trying to play a Toshiba 1TB H/D on my Panasonic T.V. The
    television recognises the HD and will display some of the contents of
    the disk, but not the ones I want to play. The files I need to play are >>> shown as zipped. Would this be the reason the HD can't or won't play
    them? I am very confused over this. And this is very new to me.


    Yes, unzip them. A TV definitely won't find them inside the zip.

    Even unzipped, TVs are *very* picky about which media files they'll
    read, so if they can't read your movies don't be surprised. Best thing
    to do is find ones they can read, take those to your Mac and open with
    VLC to see what encoding options they used, then re-encode the ones that
    don't work to the same as the ones that do work - using Handbrake or
    similar. Unfortunately media file encoding options are a steep learning
    curve...

    Cheers - Jaimie

    When I couldn't play files from a USB stick on my TV I changed then
    with <https://subler.org>. I honestly don't know if it was .mkv to .mp4
    or .mp4 to .avi or... something, but a) it worked and b) it was quick.

    As Jaimie says it almost seemed like a black art (to me)! Still none
    the wiser here but at least I got the end result I wanted.

    Another big tick for Subler here - I use it to re-format the movies/TV shows that I want to watch on the Apple TV. It not only makes readable, but also recognises whether they're a movies or part of a TV series, and adds the thumnail image of your choice.
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  • From Peter James@21:1/5 to PeteFJ on Mon Mar 6 07:47:33 2023
    On 5 Mar 2023 at 19:40:50 GMT, "PeteFJ" <pfjames395@gmail.com> wrote:

    I am trying to play a Toshiba 1TB H/D on my Panasonic T.V. The
    Snipped
    Thanks for the advice. It gives me something to work with.
    PeterFJ


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  • From Peter James@21:1/5 to Peter James on Mon Mar 6 19:36:09 2023
    On 6 Mar 2023 at 07:47:33 GMT, "Peter James" <pfjames300@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5 Mar 2023 at 19:40:50 GMT, "PeteFJ" <pfjames395@gmail.com> wrote:

    I am trying to play a Toshiba 1TB H/D on my Panasonic T.V. The
    Snipped
    Thanks for the advice. It gives me something to work with.
    PeterFJ

    Well, I am amazed but it all worked 100%. In spite of the cautious notes sounded by all, I opened up the zip files, and when copied to the ext HD I trotted down to the smart T.V. in our lounge, plugged in the ext HD and it all worked. It was a doddle. Beginners luck maybe.
    Thanks to all,
    PeteFJ
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  • From John@21:1/5 to Peter James on Mon Mar 13 20:28:55 2023
    On 6 Mar 2023 19:36:09 GMT, Peter James <pfjames300@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 6 Mar 2023 at 07:47:33 GMT, "Peter James" <pfjames300@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5 Mar 2023 at 19:40:50 GMT, "PeteFJ" <pfjames395@gmail.com> wrote:

    I am trying to play a Toshiba 1TB H/D on my Panasonic T.V. The
    Snipped
    Thanks for the advice. It gives me something to work with.
    PeterFJ

    Well, I am amazed but it all worked 100%. In spite of the cautious notes >sounded by all, I opened up the zip files, and when copied to the ext HD I >trotted down to the smart T.V. in our lounge, plugged in the ext HD and it all >worked. It was a doddle. Beginners luck maybe.

    Hmm, that surprises me but perhaps I'm just obsolete.

    The blast time I tried to play files on a TV, "smart" or otherwise,
    the box insisted in the thumb-drive being formatted to a FATxx format.
    The manual said FAT16 or FAT32 but I managed to con it into accepting
    exFAT so I could play *.ISO's larger than 4GB.

    Perhaps your TV is smarter than mine ever was? :)

    I'm happy you got it to work.

    J.

    Thanks to all,
    PeteFJ

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