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After many years and countless video reformating I just discovered something rather interesting - at least to someone who downloads lots of videos.
Using the media player on the Portal Main Menu to play videos saved on a USB Memory Stick it would not recognize .flv videos. In fact they wouldn't even show up on the list of menu items nor do they play on any of my DVD players which are 8 or 9 years old and limited to MPEG 1 & 2 and AVI.
Which left me as an alternative other then watching them on my PC I would have to convert them to another format and it was a rather cumbersome effort to have to reformat probably more then half my downloaded videos.
Then I happened to go to the INNER PORTAL and noted they also had a MEDIA PLAYER. I was under the impression it was the same as the one in the PORTAL so I never tried it. On a whim I put in a memory stick that had more then a few .flv formated videos and wam bam thank you mam they all showed up as menu items. So I clicked on one and it played flawlessly so now I have a way to play my .flv formated videos without the hassle of converting them to a different format.
Now after writing that and happy for my discovery - I was thinking that Kens or somebody will probably inform me about this neat app that I can download and it plays all formats including .flv -
Well they don't call me stupido for nothing - should have thought of it long ago before I reformated about half a terrabyte of videos.
After many years and countless video reformating I just discovered something rather interesting - at least to someone who downloads lots of videos.
Using the media player on the Portal Main Menu to play videos saved on a USB Memory Stick it would not recognize .flv videos. In fact they wouldn't even show up on the list of menu items nor do they play on any of my DVD players which are 8 or 9 years old and limited to MPEG 1 & 2 and AVI.
Which left me as an alternative other then watching them on my PC I would have to convert them to another format and it was a rather cumbersome effort to have to reformat probably more then half my downloaded videos.
Then I happened to go to the INNER PORTAL and noted they also had a MEDIA PLAYER. I was under the impression it was the same as the one in the PORTAL so I never tried it. On a whim I put in a memory stick that had more then a few .flv formated videos and wam bam thank you mam they all showed up as menu items. So I clicked on one and it played flawlessly so now I have a way to play my .flv formated videos without the hassle of converting them to a different format.
Now after writing that and happy for my discovery - I was thinking that Kens or somebody will probably inform me about this neat app that I can download and it plays all formats including .flv -
Well they don't call me stupido for nothing - should have thought of it long ago before I reformated about half a terrabyte of videos.
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