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Samsung USB advice
Hanko
31-12-2014
Hello guys,

I've just purchased the Samsung UA48H6400. I have a USB hardrive with movies I'd like to watch through the TV.

For some reason the TV doesn't find anything on the USB. I've tried on smaller USB sticks but still nothing. I'v also tried different movie formats e.g. avi, MP4, MKV etc

Would anybody know what I can do or am I doing something wrong?

Is anybody able to achieve this?

Cheers!
Chris Frost
31-12-2014
Your OP is a bit light on detail, so the following are the usual suspects:

USB storage usually has to be formatted in FAT32 for the TV USB socket to "see" it. Try that with a memory stick/USB keydrive and then load some content.

Also, the USB socket might not have enough juice to run the HDD without an external power supply.
chrisjr
31-12-2014
The UK website doesn't seem to recognise the UA48H6400. Did find one of the Samsung awful E-Manuals for it on the South African website (think it was).

Anyway that suggests the USB function can read FAT (didn't specify what flavour of FAT though), exFAT and NTFS file systems. So if you are using a native Mac or Linux file system that might account for why it wasn't seen.

Also as Chris Frost said you might have to use an external power supply with a hard drive. It did mention that also in the manual. It also suggested that one USB socket may have higher power output than the other (might be labelled USB 1A or something like that), so could be worth trying that.

But if the E-Manual is correct it should recognise a very wide range of video and audio formats, once you can persuade it to read the drive that is.
Hanko
31-12-2014
Thanks Guys,

What is FAT and how to I make my USB hardrive FAT?
Chris Frost
31-12-2014
Google is your friend

http://www.wikihow.com/Format-a-Flash-Drive
chrisjr
31-12-2014
Originally Posted by Hanko:
“Thanks Guys,

What is FAT and how to I make my USB hardrive FAT?”

If you have a Windows computer and can read the content of the drive on it then it is already in a format the TV can read. It would only be a problem if you have a Mac or Linux computer and formatted the drive with their native file systems.
oilman
31-12-2014
Originally Posted by chrisjr:
“If you have a Windows computer and can read the content of the drive on it then it is already in a format the TV can read. It would only be a problem if you have a Mac or Linux computer and formatted the drive with their native file systems.”

Not quite true. A USB could be NTFS formatted and be readable on a PC. Many TVs etc will only read fat32 format.
chrisjr
31-12-2014
Originally Posted by oilman:
“Not quite true. A USB could be NTFS formatted and be readable on a PC. Many TVs etc will only read fat32 format.”

Read my previous post. If the E-Manual for this TV is to be believed it can read NTFS format.
oilman
31-12-2014
Apologies - I missed that point. I hope e-manual is correct. I still format most USB sticks as fat32 though for widest compatibility. Can be a pain for larger USB sticks due to windows 32gb limit for fat32.
grahamlthompson
31-12-2014
Originally Posted by oilman:
“Apologies - I missed that point. I hope e-manual is correct. I still format most USB sticks as fat32 though for widest compatibility. Can be a pain for larger USB sticks due to windows 32gb limit for fat32.”

There is no 32GB limit for FAT32 other than the artificially imposed ones by windows built in format capability. There's loads of free ways to format large FAT32 partitions (they handle lots of small files very inefficiently). Once formatted windows will happily work with larger partitions.

FAT32 has a much more significant individual file size limit of one byte less than 4GB, which precludes most HD content and long SD ones. HD camcorders use FAT32 but split longer individual takes into sub 4GB chunks (usually about 2GB). They supply software that seamlessly combine them into a single file when copied to a PC with NTFS formatted drives. Presumably TV's capable of recording HD use the same system.

Any device with only FAT32 read capability will be restricted to sub 4GB files.

http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/ind...at32format.htm

http://fat32-format.en.softonic.com/
Hanko
02-01-2015
Formatted to FAT32 and now works like a dream!

Thanks for your help guys
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