DVD on Pen Drive

You may find that the usb would play if you had the file formated to mp4 rather than the dvd file format.

Gordon

Hi Les,  Is your pen drive formatted to FAT 32?   hth.    TonyC.

Some panasonic tv's will only replay videos in avchd format
Which panasonic TV ?

Gordon: How do I change the file to mp4 please? AVCHD was orininally shot. From the DVD they are .VOB files.

Tony: Fat 32; how can I check? I'm using Window 10 and Windows 7 now and also have Vista. Previously it was Windows XP when I took up editing video in 1997.

Gary: The TV is Panasonic TX-L37G20BA. Page 66 and 67 give some information.

It is very sad to learn that this Forum will cease to exist on Thursday next. It seems the hackers won after all.

Personally I will greatly miss it. Thank you everyone for a great deal of help.

Les, plug the pen drive into a usb slot in your PC and right click on the drive letter. Then click on properties and  check the File System. This will tell you the format of the pen drive.

ps. There are several postings on the web from owners of panasonic tv's who appear to have similar problems to yours.

Les
I film in AVCHD as well.  With the file on my edit time line I just go to export and choose mp4. It then renders it into that format.
It works this way in all the Magix editing programmes I have had over the years and I assume there will be a similar process in which ever editing software you use.
Yes I too will miss my regular visits to the forum.
Gordon

Tony: Did as you said. It's FAT 32

Gordon: I transferred the project directly from a DVD disc to the USB Pen Drive, not from a Premiere Pro CS6 timeline and Encore.

If all else doesn't provide an answer then I'll do as you say. I'm hoping....

Thank you for your postings.

Page 95 of manual suggests DIVX as a playback format.

DivX video file®DivX
Certifiedto play DivX
Extension - ".divx" or ".avi"Image resolution - Up to 1,920 × 1,080 pixels

Video•
Number of stream: Up to 1•
Codec: DIV3, DIV4, DIVX, DX50, DIV6•
FPS (Frame Per Second): Up to 60 fps
GMC (Global Motion Compensation) is not supported.

Audio •
Number of stream: Up to 8 •
Format: MP3, MPEG, AC3 •
Multi channel: AC3 is possible.
MPEG multi is 2 ch conversion

I have looked at the page you state Gary.

As you are far more expert than I you may understand it. Sorry, I don't. Thank you for telling me though; much appreciated.

Apparently I need mp4 files, as Tom stated. His USB Pen drives are mp4 and display properly on a Samsung TV.

Aparently I need to change the DVD's  .VOB files to mp4 format - but how?

I would suggest using HANDBRAKE available @ https://handbrake.fr/

I use it to turn dvd ( vobs ) to mp4

once installed , start handbrake

open source

folder 

point @ video_ts folder of dvd structure

it will read in all files

you can then choose a preset , or alter the options in video and audio tab

Trying to follow your instructions Gary. So far this:

8GB USB Pen drive formatted. Files from DVD placed on Pen drive (copy and paste).

Handbrake installed. It insisted to have Microsoft Net Framework 4.6 Client Profile installed.

That demanded closing  HKey Tray, hkeysound, IAStorIcon, Intel Rapid Storage Technology and Power Bios Server. It did this automatically after agreement.

Apols.
I always have .net framework on all computers , and forget to check the prerequisites when recommending software.

It is a very powerful conversion program.

I do however often restart the pc after installing software , especially if it doesn't say it needs to , to make sure that the pc restarts and runs properly

This computer was restarted after shutting down.

To continue from the last post: Select Desktop icon. Gets Source select screen with the right sise darkened.

Used "Option - choose a title". Clicked File - Open single file.. That displayed all the DVD vob (and few other) files.

I pointed to VTS_01_1.VOB. That appeared in the strip "File name".  Then clicked Open and Browsed for destination.

Nothing useful appeared. MP4 did show in one of the screen boxes.

On the list of presets, which is the best to choose?

Is this correct, and where to now please? And how to get on USB Pen drive. Now getting lost.

let me get some sleep , and i will put together a step by step with screenshots tomorrow

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open source

select the video_ts folder , not the files inside it

select title ( my dvd is three parts , hopefully yours will be one part , if not , encode each part seperately

Select video tab , and set parameters , i left mine as 720 x 576 , 25 frames per second , and a constant quality of 22 , good enough for most tv/film re-encodes

select audio tab , and check the audio you want to add in

click on start encode.

depending on speed of pc , you will have a mp4 created very quickly

Haven't had any success so far Gary but have photographed for future use as this forum finishes today.

Thank you Gary for all your help over many years.

Did you select the folder?

Then Handbrake automatically scans the titles?

Did you select an output folder to save your named mp4 file?

You can scroll down the options to Legacy and just select Standard 
Hopefully this will work before trying different encoding options

This is such an  easy and effective solution for file conversion

Please tell us where your sticking point is, as the clock is ticking

Cheers

Apparently the sticking point is this:

The  Panasonic TV manual states that - If a drive is formatted on a computer it will not work on a TV set.

I cannot change this as there doesn't appear to be anywhere on the TV where a drive can be formatted.

TRY THIS TO FORMAT  ( page 62 of manual )

put pendrive in usb slot

now on tv remote

menu
setup
usb hdd setup
device setup

https://www.manualslib.com/manual/648897/Panasonic-Txl32g20ba.html?page=62#manual  <<< has the instructions