Philips DVP5982 DVD player w/ USB port

[Ksyder]

Just wondering if anyone has any experience in this regard- I have a Philips DVD player with USB port that plays mpeg-4 video, so I was able to format a 40gb usb laptop drive with fat32 and watch videos off the hard drive on the t.v.

The 40 gig is already full with a few seasons of tv shows so I'd like to upgrade to a big drive, preferably 1tb. Just wondering if anyone knows if there is any limitations that would cause a 1tb drive formatted as fat32 to not work or be recognized?

 

[Soundmanred]

It should work, but has the normal FAT32 limitations of course.
There should be firmware fixes to support long filenames as well if you care to look into it.

 

[Ksyder]

Thanks for the advice! The philips website says that the max filename
length is 8 characters and don't seem to be any sign of firmware updates. I hope I'm wrong on this one.

 

[Modelworks]

Originally posted by: Ksyder
Thanks for the advice! The philips website says that the max filename
length is 8 characters and don't seem to be any sign of firmware updates. I hope I'm wrong on this one.

There is some modified firmware floating around for the philips players that lets you see more characters, forget how many it is though.
I have the same player and just use it mainly with usb sticks, I just name things like episodes of tv series, one two three four, when I go to put them on the stick

 

[Ksyder]

I have the same player and just use it mainly with usb sticks, I just name things like episodes of tv series, one two three four, when I go to put them on the stick

Yeah I do the same thing... but it would be nice to not have to rename all those files! I'll have to look for those firmwares. Thanks very much for the info.