Concertone MP4/USB

[phrogpilot73]

First time poster, so please be gentle... For what it's worth, I've searched the forums and read through pages and pages about the Concertone, and I still have a question.

As it stands - ours (Concertone ZX75) is working fine, but the only problem I have is playing MP4 files. The manual (which totally sucks by the way), says that when you plug in a USB device - that it will recognize it and enter the USB menu... That's about it.

My wife and I have ripped every DVD we own to MP4, store them on our server at home, and stream them through the XBox 360. We copied all the movies over to a hard drive, with the hopes we could have them available in our RV. No joy.

Trying to do research, I can't figure out if it's a size limitation (is there a size of drive limitation on the USB port?), a file system limitation (the hard drive I used is NTFS, should it be FAT32?), or a directory structure limitation (every MP4 file was in its own folder, should they be in root)?

HARDLY a computer illiterate here - BS in Computer Science and experience with Windows (from 3.1 all the way to 7), Linux, UNIX, and Mac. If I knew the capabilities/limitations of the Concertone unit, I could solve it myself - but as it stands, I haven't yet. Has anyone done what I want to do?

[Bob Fields]

on the ZX75 the USB Connection will work with USB Drives 2Gig or less.

Newer model radios work up to 8Gig.

What are you connecting?

[phrogpilot73]

Originally Posted by Bob Fields

on the ZX75 the USB Connection will work with USB Drives 2Gig or less.

Newer model radios work up to 8Gig.

What are you connecting?

That pretty much answers my question. We were trying to connect a 250gig hard drive... The idea being we could have a hard drive with all our movies available in the RV. Guess we'll have to plug in directly to the TV via HDMI, since one MP4 movie is almost 1 Gig.

Thanks for your help.

[great white]

not sure if the zx700 is different, but I've used an 8 gig with no issues....

[Coops1]

An 8GB drive is to small and you can only get maybe 2 movies on it. What I use is a Boxee Box that I have my hard drive plugged into with a HDMI directly to the TV and the audio goes to my Concertone. This set up works good for my music on the hard drive as well.

[phrogpilot73]

Originally Posted by Coops1

What I use is a Boxee Box that I have my hard drive plugged into with a HDMI directly to the TV and the audio goes to my Concertone.

Thanks for the suggestion... Just got my Boxee Box that I bought on eBay... Now I want one for the house too

[Coops1]

I move mine from the house to the trailer and back. The next challenge for me is to figure out how to tether my iPhone's 6GB of data to the Boxee so it's connected to the internet when in the trailer.