Divx DVD Philips Player DVP5990

[abercrombiedude0409]

My dvd player comes 1&2. I recently upgraded the firmware. Though I have a external hard drive with NTFS installed on it. Is there any way to play the avi files from my external hard drive with my dvd usb port? The Divx DVD Philips Player's usb is Fat32.

[RabidDog]

re format your external hard disk back to fat32 .. only way.
Also make sure none of your files exceeds 2gb or 4gb (max file size). one or t'other.
Might need an external program to do it as XP wont allow it.

[redwudz]

SwissKnife is the easiest I've found to reformat to Fat 32. Windows can't do it properly: http://www.compuapps.com/download/Swissknife/swissknife.htm

[denzlite]

Hello - I've got this same DVD player. Can someone give me a link on how to update firmware?

Anyways, I'd like to be able to play BluRay files through this. Most seem to be encoded .mkv which looks like a .h264 wrapper. Is there any way to get this player to play 264 encoded files?

Also, since there's a 2/4 gig file size issue with FAT32 - is there any way to split the .mkv file so I can play it off external HD?

Good lord why did they have to only allow FAT32? Is there a similar product out there that has NTFS? I'm starting to rip DVDs to my external, but this file size thing sucks if I just want to hang on to VOB.

[jagabo]

Anyways, I'd like to be able to play BluRay files through this. Most seem to be encoded .mkv which looks like a .h264 wrapper. Is there any way to get this player to play 264 encoded files?

No MKV support. No h.264 support. No high definition support. You need to convert to standard defintion (less than 720x576) Divx/Xvid. Or get a Western Digital TV HD Media Player or Popcorn Hour, both of which support MKV, h.264, and high definition.

[jman98]

Good lord why did they have to only allow FAT32? Is there a similar product out there that has NTFS? I'm starting to rip DVDs to my external, but this file size thing sucks if I just want to hang on to VOB.

NTFS costs a lot of money to license. Microsoft has never seemed to be very interested in keeping the cost low enough to encourage companies to license it. FAT32 is either very cheap or free. I don't know which.

The Western Digital TV HD Media Player that jagabo mentioned does support NTFS. I think Popcorn Hour does too, but I don't have one of those. I have the Western Digital player and I can confirm that it support NTFS.

[Ai Haibara]

I think FAT32's a lowest-common denominator at this point - it's probably the most compatible and readable by the majority of computer systems at present, and many of the flash/pen drives I encounter seem to be formatted in FAT32 by default. Heck, I think the MP3 players also tend to use it (if they're formatted for use with Windows).

[jman98]

It is a lowest common denominator thing, but it's more about licensing fees than that. Apple refuses to include NTFS support in their OS because of the fees Microsoft wants and they have said so numerous times. I strongly suspect that most manufacturers won't pay the fees. If Microsoft really cared about making NTFS more available, they would make it cheap enough that nobody would object over licensing it.

[denzlite]

Good help. That WD Media Player looks interesting. I'd like to have some kind of server? maybe? So that way I wouldn't have to keep moving media all over the place.

[jagabo]

Good help. That WD Media Player looks interesting. I'd like to have some kind of server? maybe? So that way I wouldn't have to keep moving media all over the place.

The firmware for the WDTV is open source. There are mods that allow the use of USB network adapters for accessing network shares. http://wiki.wdtv.org/doku.php