Thread: FAT32 File Sizes

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

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

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 .

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