external hdd not playing movies and pics

zeeshan shani

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Jun 23, 2013
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Hi
I have a Verbatim 1tb external hard drive. i copied about 700GB of movies on to it. however when i connect it to my DVD player, to watch the movies on my TV, only a few of them play. It is pretty strange because the format of all my movies i the same. can someone please help me?

email me on : zeeshamcb20@gmail.com
 
Don't post your email, if you don't like spam! For the problem: the file extension (avi, mpg,..) doesn't properly describe the format. Most of them only describe the container format, but not the actual codes used. Tool like GSpot (http://gspot.headbands.com/) tell you, what codec is used. Compare the to the list of supported codecs by you DVD player.