Several years ago I bought a WDTV Live HD to playback our edited travel videos. These are currently originated on my Panasonic HC-V500, recorded in HA1920 mode. I rendered as XDCAM EX MPEG-2 (MP4) which plays well from a USB stick on my WDTV to my Panasonic Plasma.
WDTV is now not getting full support from WD. Nor from the BBC for the iPlayer that comes with it (this was a bonus and we were using the box as much for iPlayer as for playing back video).
Looking for a replacement, I plumped for an Amazon Fire TV 2. I am so please with its capabilities for TV, such as BBC iPlayer as well as 4OD and ITV Hub (but not Sky Go which won't play on an HDMI device).
I digress. I found very quickly that both the microSD card and any USB stick has to be formatted as FAT. So my files of travel video, each of just over an hour playback time and around 20 & 30 Gb(!!) can never be played back from memory. (The size never worried me before as they play well).
I tried playing over the network but neither VLC or KODI will cope.
I have tried rendering to other formats as suggested on this forum and elsewhere to no avail.
I am thinking I will have to keep my WDTV box, to add to the clutter, unless someone has suggestions as to how I can achieve my aim of playing my edits on the Amazon Fire? Thank you.
WDTV is now not getting full support from WD. Nor from the BBC for the iPlayer that comes with it (this was a bonus and we were using the box as much for iPlayer as for playing back video).
Looking for a replacement, I plumped for an Amazon Fire TV 2. I am so please with its capabilities for TV, such as BBC iPlayer as well as 4OD and ITV Hub (but not Sky Go which won't play on an HDMI device).
I digress. I found very quickly that both the microSD card and any USB stick has to be formatted as FAT. So my files of travel video, each of just over an hour playback time and around 20 & 30 Gb(!!) can never be played back from memory. (The size never worried me before as they play well).
I tried playing over the network but neither VLC or KODI will cope.
I have tried rendering to other formats as suggested on this forum and elsewhere to no avail.
I am thinking I will have to keep my WDTV box, to add to the clutter, unless someone has suggestions as to how I can achieve my aim of playing my edits on the Amazon Fire? Thank you.