FAT32 File Sizes

[101RRS]

My TV and BlueRay Player can read external hard drives, sd cards and zip drives etc if they are formatted in the Fat 32 format. This limits file sizes to 4gb - not an issue with DVD files converted to avi etc which were about 1gb.

With more an more blue ray movies becoming available in a compressed format many of these are in the order of 4 - 8gb in compressed form.

Given that I must use Fat32 and not NFTS on these external drives has any one come up with a solution that preserves a reasonable amount of quality.

I assume the answer is to simply compress to below 4gb and accept a reduction in quality.

Any thoughts?

Garry

[fraser130]

Not an ideal solution, but could you use a cheap/free video editor and cut the files into two?

[Mick_Marsh]

The fat32 format is good for 2Tb. The fat16 is limited to a partition size of 4Gb.
The fat32 file size limit is 4Gb due to restrictions in memory.
A way around this would be to split your movie into 4Gb chunks. You could use these interruptions to the movie as snack or pee breaks.

[HangOver]

edited : hmm thats what i get for not reading your post fully

[101RRS]

You could use these interruptions to the movie as a pee break.

I can relate to that - I have a 200km or two hour bladder :o.

Thanks to everyone for the responses - I hadn't considered splitting the file. My Avatar file is 8gb and I would prefer not to compress it further and loose quality.

Cheers

Garry