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Ok so here is the situation. I have some shows downloaded. I download them using my phone, I do this to avoid the internet company and there complaining. I have unlimited on my phone and enough space to download several seasons of any given show at a time. This works well for me. Now, once the show is Dl'ed, i transfer to my computer, from there I rename to make it a clean file name, then transfer to a 4TB External HDD. This HDD I have hooked up through my USB port into my Sony BlueRay Player, and then to my Sanyo TV. NOW.....Some shows, Doctor Who for example, I can watch just fine. There are other shows, Lethal Weapon for instance, that I cannot watch using this method. I test them out on my computer, Tablet and/or phone and they work just find, but once put on the HDD and going through the BlueRay Player, they will not play and it says the file is missing or corrupted.
Can anyone explain this? It seems to be something in the BlueRay side of things preventing me from watching these shows.
Please HELP!!!!!
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Playback software on internet-enabled devices such as computers, tablets and phones is able to be updated, and supplemented.
Playback software on standalone blu-ray players is whatever-was-installed-at-the-time-of-manufacture. That's it.
There are countless different video formats, and they change over time. When something new comes along your computer/tablet/phone is able to adapt. Your blu-ray player isn't.
Solution: ditch the blu-ray player. Your laptop almost certainly has an HDMI output socket--just plug that directly into your TV
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(May 09, 2017, 22:16 pm)Sid Wrote: Solution: ditch the blu-ray player. Your laptop almost certainly has an HDMI output socket--just plug that directly into your TV
Great idea, as soon as I get my screen fixed on my laptop I will most definitely do that.
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Of course you will want to get it fixed but you don't need to wait--once you plug in the HDMI cable your TV screen will display whatever is (or is not, in your case) displayed on your laptop screen.
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(May 09, 2017, 22:42 pm)Sid Wrote: Of course you will want to get it fixed but you don't need to wait--once you plug in the HDMI cable your TV screen will display whatever is (or is not, in your case) displayed on your laptop screen.
I am testing it out with another laptop, VLC isn't recognizing the video. sigh.....FML
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(This post was last modified: May 09, 2017, 23:30 pm by RobertX. Edited 1 time in total.)
CWills, I hope I'm not too off-topic, but what happened when you played Lethal Weapon on your Blu Ray player?
Is it because of the pesky Cinavia protection?
EDIT: Sid, what about Blu Ray firmware?
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That's not what you said originally:
"I test them out on my computer, Tablet and/or phone and they work just find, but once put on the HDD and going through the BlueRay Player, they will not play"
That is the question I answered.
If videos aren't playing in VLC player that is a completely different problem. i.e. they're most likely fakes. Post a link to the page you downloaded them from.
EDIT: re. Robert's reply, it has nothing to do with Cinavia. [Cinavia doesn't stop videos being recognised, it mutes the sound after 20 minutes or so.]
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(May 09, 2017, 23:22 pm)Sid Wrote: That's not what you said originally:
"I test them out on my computer, Tablet and/or phone and they work just find, but once put on the HDD and going through the BlueRay Player, they will not play"
That is the question I answered.
If videos aren't playing in VLC player that is a completely different problem. i.e. they're most likely fakes. Post a link to the page you downloaded them from.
EDIT: re. Robert's reply, it has nothing to do with Cinavia. [Cinavia doesn't stop videos being recognised, it mutes the sound after 20 minutes or so.]
The part about not playing on VLC was a secondary issue when trying it out on the laptop. It was in addition to the original problem.
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