Phillips DVD and codec problem

[lyon]

I hope this goes here.


Hi guys, got myself into a bit of a situation.
I had a lot of files on my external hard drive that I used to watch on my DVD player. Anyway, all these file were AVI format.


I had particular files that were M4V, and my dvd would not recognize them. So I downloaded the K-Lite Codec Pack Basic package, installed it and when I was just editing my files, it must have done something to the AVI format files.


Now when I put my external hard drive into my DVD, even the AVI format files are not recognizable, it just doesn't come up. It's also not "hidden" or anything like that in the external hard drive folder.


Any tips on what I can do? I'm very sure it's got something to do with messing about with trying to get the M4V to play.

[lowellriggsiam]

The problem itself sounds completely odd. Try running scandisk on your USB Harddrive.

[Ai Haibara]

Yeah, it does sound like you might have corrupted your external drive, in some manner. Either that, or you might have run into a file/folder limit (some DVD players have a limit on how many files and folders they can 'see,' and start behaving oddly if that's exceeded) - do you have a large number of files and/or folders on the drive?

[lowellriggsiam]

Meanwhile check the files with mediainfo and post one of the results.