Can Samsung TVs play videos off a portable external hard drive?
from cheese_greater@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca on 25 Feb 02:56
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Wondering whether to dig up my drive with tv shows

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cenariodantesco@lemmy.world on 25 Feb 03:04 collapse

i have a Samsung TV, maybe 6 years old or more and it sure does play, just plug in, navigate to the folder with the remote and plays

cheese_greater@lemmy.world on 25 Feb 03:15 next collapse

No power supply issue?

cheese_greater@lemmy.world on 25 Feb 03:19 collapse

I cant believe it—it works!!!

Edit: doesnt recognize anything in the tv folder unfortunately, I’ll try it a bit more tomorrow

Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca on 25 Feb 06:59 next collapse

They do play some but not all media types. You can look up what types on …samsung.com/…/general-specifications.html and go on the left column under “video Specifications” and select the year your tv came out.

exaybachae@startrek.website on 25 Feb 07:52 collapse

You can use tools like Staxrip and MKVToolNix to REMUX A/V content into other containers.

So if your TV shows are windows media files or divx files and the TV doesn’t play those containers you may be able to bulk rebuild them as a different format without reencoding the files actual content.

Some file contents won’t work in some containers though, so YMMV.

Also, some TVs or basic file players like those found on TVs can’t read files burried too far down a file tree, or with long names. So consider moving a TV Show to a higher level if needed, like ‘drive/GOT S01’ vs ‘drive/the shows/game of thrones/season 01/s01e01/’ … You get the drift.

cheese_greater@lemmy.world on 25 Feb 16:27 collapse

I think its how deeply nested the folders are. Ah