i actually just bought a dvd player- Philips DVP 5990 +dvix +usb with external 160GB external HardDrive. my player won't see anything after i connect the HardDrive. i have videos in avi format file in folders, plus other junk on the HardDrive such as some software files and documents and so on. do i have to have only avi files onthe HardDrive for my player to see any files or is there another way to do it. my HD is FAT32 formatted. am i doing something wrong. my player does recognize my external HardDrive, but when it pulls up the menu for usb, it shows blank.
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did you bother to search for yourself at all? took all of 5 seconds.
https://forum.videohelp.com/topic356957.html--
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format your drive using SwissKnife http://www.compuapps.com/download/Swissknife/swissknife.htm
mine works fine with WD pasport 250GB (over 120 movies)
and this link for custom firmware
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Originally Posted by aedipuss
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I have other files and software on the HD no issues at all. give SwissKnife a try
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Originally Posted by MJA
thank a bunch...
i just pluged it in before turning it on and after turning the player on, it picks it up but still no video files or any folders shown. thanks for all your help. -
From the same thread MJA linked to: https://forum.videohelp.com/topic355675-90.html#1894706 I used that method with Swissknife and the other programs to be able to select any of the videos with just the remote keypad. Windows can only make 32GB FAT32 partitions, so a different formatting method needs to be used.
As far as having other files on the drive, shouldn't matter. But you could test that out with most any USB thumb drive. I would put non-video data in a separate folder, so you don't have them all though the menu. I would also try reformatting the HDD with Swissknife and you may find it works. -
all my videos (DIVX) worked fine with both firmware.
I will let some one else answer the 2ed part.
what kind of AVI files by the way? -
i see thank you redwudz and MJA, i tried pluging a tump drive and it picked up without a problem, the thing is my harddrive was 160gb fat32 partion formatted when it came out of box and i never refromated, i will try moving 160gb worth of data on my computer then try Swissknife to format it to fat32. thank you
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Originally Posted by spidermen
post again when u are done
don't forget to update the firmware with the custom made one . it added long filename display -
right, thank you. also the coustoemr one had a palversion on it too on page 4, herer is the link to that post https://forum.videohelp.com/topic355675-90.html#1895089
that will work as well, since the encoder kept updating the firmware of bugss. -
Not sure what you are asking in the last post, but the US version of the 5990 plays PAL format Xvid/Divx with no problems.
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Originally Posted by spidermen
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