i am trying to back up all my video files on pin drives. i have a kingston pin drive that fits 14.4GB. I am trying to put a 6.80GB on it. now 6.80 GB is smaller than 14.4GB, so it should fit, right?....WRONG! I get an error message saying that it will not fit. can someone explain why? :sad:
Most likely due to how the thumb drive was formatted. Some file systems FAT/FAT32 for example can only store files smaller than 4GB. exFAT and NTFS don't have those limitations.
It is a video i downloaded from Youtube with YTD (Youtube Downloader) i never had this problem with other videos i downloded, why this one? i have 25 movies on another Kingston 14.4 GB pin drive and they are about 260 MB pin drive each (gave or take 40 MBs). so there shouldve been no problem.
As JMPC stated above, it is impossible to store a single file greater than ~4GB on a drive with a FAT/FAT32 partition. Reformat it using NTFS then try again.
the pin drive fits 14 GB. so should not be able to fit a 6 GB?
I saif the movies i have on the other pin drive are 260MB. The Pin drive im using now is new, nothing on it yet.
well, i reformatted to exfat and it fit on there, only problem is it will not work on the blu ray USB drive. apparenly the blu ray only works with Fat32 drives. i guess ill have th put it on that big GB Adata port drive. i had that since i think December 2010. it is acting a bit clunky but still works.
You might try NTFS instead of ExFAT and see if your "blu ray USB drive" will recognize it. NTFS has been around since 1993 or so and ExFAT since late 2006.
By Blu-Ray USB Drive do you mean a Blu-Ray player that has a USB port to play video off of your USB Drive? If so, TV's and Blu-Ray players that have a USB port usually only recognize FAT32 formatted drives, they do not support exFAT or NTFS, so you cannot play a file larger then 4GB on a FAT32 Formatted USB drive plugged into this player.
You can convert the File to MP4 to make it smaller.
I found out something, i tried downloading another video from Youtube, the issue is with my Youtube Downloader. for some reason it is downloading the videos into bigger files. not only that. originaly after i download them i convert them into divx files. that made the file smaller. but now it is making the file bigger. any reason why this changed?
To simplify this my Youtube Downloader is downloading videos in such a way where i can not even fit them on a blank DVD. and on blank DVDs i was ablt to fit 3 movies, now i'm lucky if i can fit just one.
In YouTube Downloader under Select Download Quality, choose Mp4/FLV 360P, under Convert Video to.. check AVI or MP4 for the best converted video quality.
I have the free version and I always downloaded to MP4 format. I don't know why the sudden change.
It does however, when I first open pop up an upgrade notice, but I don't know if it's wanting me to buy the full version which I can't afford now or upgrade to a free version of the new version...
I don't know if those 2 problems are related but do you think if I did try it could help? I can have smaller video files like I did before?
i'm still having a bit of a problem. maybe it be the divx converter. but i did a test now the Divx converter converts videos into bigger files than smaller files. i'll give an exapmple. when i converted "Jaws" from MP4 which was 677MB into Divx (MKV) file, it is 356 MB.
Now i tried a video which was at MP4 was 121 MB the Divx conversion MKV file is 130 MB.
before the DIVX conversions was making them smaller now it is making them bigger.
Why?
Conversion/Compression algorithms vary in what they can and cannot compress within a file. Because of this, in order to determine which might work best for a particular file is to simply experiment with different program and settings.
Be aware that lossy (versus lossless) compression degrades quality.
MIKV files are used for Blu-Ray discs converted to Computer video file. If you have an MP4 file, it is already compressed and converted, and does not need to be converted again, unless you want to burn it to a DVD. Making it a MKV expands the file. MP4 files are playable on most players, (eg) VLC, iPhones, iPad's etc.
USB Flash drives are not good storage devices as they tend to fail after a short while.
I agree. Think of them as kind of like a paper cone cup. Usually good for the short term only. :wink:
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