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DVD Players with USB 2.0 port | ||||
| nicoarad posted 2007 Nov 09 07:49 | ||||
| Hi
I have a very simple question : is there a standalone DVD player, with USB 2.0 port, able to play DVD MOVIES from an external HDD? As it would be played from a disc ? With access to menus , subtitles etc? The HDD is suposed to be external powered and FAT32 formatted. I am not interested in playing mp3, or any avi files, just DVD MOVIES Thnx! | ||||
| mats.hogberg posted 2007 Nov 09 08:10 | ||||
| I strongly doubt that. Anything on an external HDD would be treated as plain files.
/Mats | ||||
| jagabo posted 2007 Nov 09 09:46 | ||||
| Maybe:
http://www.ziova.com/ http://www.z500series.com/ http://www.buffalotech.com/products/multimedia/ At least some of these claim to play ISO images. | ||||
| mats.hogberg posted 2007 Nov 09 09:52 | ||||
| Maybe I'm blind, but where do you find that a Video DVD structure on a USB device would be treated and played back as a Video DVD?
One problem with USB devices are that they must (at least those I've seen) be FAT32, and that excludes ISO images of Video DVD (in most cases, if it's not a very short clip). /Mats | ||||
| jagabo posted 2007 Nov 09 10:01 | ||||
| "DVD ISO and IFO Parsing Support"
http://www.ziova.com/cs505_specs.php "DVD ISO/IFO" http://www.z500series.com/specs.php Both listed as "experimental". Maybe that means they must be less than 4GB. Or maybe it was only via network streaming. | ||||
| Krispy Kritter posted 2007 Nov 09 10:08 | ||||
| nevermind | ||||
| jagabo posted 2007 Nov 09 10:10 | ||||
No, hence the "maybe". Although I'm pretty sure I read here a while back that someone was using the Ziova players this way. Talk of ISO and IFO support at Ziova forums: http://www.ziova.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=3162 | ||||
| nicoarad posted 2007 Nov 10 03:32 | ||||
| Thank you very much all of you! As it seems, the problem is complicated enough and the solution, far to expensive (Ziova).Also, regarding Ziova CS505, the reports are not so good ... I think I will give up... It's more easier to burn a RW instead of playing .iso DVD files via USB...If it's really possible... Did anyone tried this feature with Ziova? | ||||
| dfisher052 posted 2007 Nov 10 07:01 | ||||
| A friend of mine has one of the Philips players with the USB port and regularly plays AVI files on it. I've seen it and it worked fine. He has a 1GB Sandisk cruzer stick that he plugs into it. He started out time shifting tv shows on tape, then went to dvd re-writeables, (he can record video on his computer) now he just loads them on the Sandisk and plugs it into the Philips. It works. | ||||
| mats.hogberg posted 2007 Nov 10 13:18 | ||||
/Mats | ||||
| DOCWHO posted 2008 Oct 28 17:12 | ||||
| The ZIOVA CS505 has USB, plays External HDD and Memstiks in several AVI/MPG etc formats, HOWEVER, the Unit in General is a Peice of S#$%
It Crashes all the time, has dozens of Bugs in its firmware and ZIOVA dont want to know......read their forums and see how many unhappy customers there are. | ||||
| Supreme2k posted 2008 Oct 28 17:37 | ||||
| I don't see why you don't simply burn the isos, since that is what they are meant for. The USB connection works great for converting your DVDs to divx/xvid, dropping them on a usb drive, and having a jukebox of movies from which to choose.
That way, you would probably never run into the 4Gig problem. I use the Phillips 5990, and it works great for this method. | ||||
| fairytale00 posted 2008 Oct 28 22:06 | ||||
| You can have a look at the Philips DVP-5992 DVD Player with USB 2.0 1080p HDMI Upconversion. |
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