Philips 5960 and MPEGISO

[OriginalDustyBin]

I have a Nebula USB TV tuner on my TV and record a lot of tv shows. I'm thinking of buying this Philips player so that I can just burn the MPEG2 files to DVD rather than go through a time-consuming conversion program.

However, I'm sure I saw something recently that said that this player didn't handle large files all that well and would cut off at some point. As MPEG2 movies can be over 3GB, this would be rather painful. Can anyone give me an absolute answer on this as it will make the difference whether I buy the unit.

Thanks!

[jagabo]

The ISO file system has a 2GB file size limit. UDF has a 4GB file size limit. The 5960 supports both file systems and can play files over 2GB on UDF discs. I just verified this by playing a 3.6 GB MPEG file on a UDF disc. Well, I didn't play the whole file, it would have take 2 hours. But I fast forwarded through the entire movie at 32x. Occasionally slowing down to 1x to verify that playback was OK.