i just purchased a Phillips dvd playes dvp5990 and i connect my portable hdd (SimpleTech)
to it and none of my videos are showing?
it says it empty
what im i doing wrong?
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1.The HDD has to formatted to FAT32.
2.The partition cannot be over 500GB.
3.The video files have to be DivX and the resolution must be under 720x576. -
Surely your problem is something Moviegeek mentioned, but do note that Philips players also have limits on how many files and how many directories ("folders" for some of you Windows-centric people) you can have as well. We've got other threads that list the limits, but if I remember it's 600 and something files and 300 or so directories. And those limits are TOTAL limits, so you can't have 500 files in one directory and 300 in another - that exceeds the limit of 600-something files.
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As jman98 said there's also a file limit but you can get around that by having several partitions around 100GB each.
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also try to format your drive with swissknife
http://www.compuapps.com/download/Swissknife/swissknife.htm -
Xvid files also work fine with the Philips players. But they do have to be compliant. Undoubtedly a few of your files are compliant, so you likely have one of the other problems mentioned.
If you need a program to format the drive to FAT32, try SwissKnife: http://www.compuapps.com/download/Swissknife/swissknife.htm
And there are quite a few threads about the 5990 if you look in our DVD & Blu-ray Players forum.
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