[Jorge Trinchet]

Thanks, Danny! I will give that a try.
The reason why I was using DVD flick is because that is the program that I normally use to convert files into DVD files. It had never given me any trouble, until now.
Thanks again,

Jorge

[Jorge Trinchet]

Thanks, Terry.
I didn’t know that about AVI files.
I will see how the DVD player can be updated.

Jorge

[Jorge Trinchet]

Terry,
I am sorry for the confusion.
I am not talking about playing a DVD (on a disc) on a DVD player.

My DVD player (a Philips DVP 5982) has a USB port.
I have a portable hardrive that I plug to the DVD player through the USB port. The DVD player is usually able to read the files stored in the portable drive. It is great because I don’t have to burn the files on a disc. The DVD player, thought the USB port, is able to read the files directly. It is like the DVD player is a computer, really.

The problem is that the DVD player doesn’t always find or shows all the files that I have on my portable drive. It doesn’t usually have problems with pictures, but video files are a different story.
Actually, it plays AVI and a very few others. But it can’t play quicktime, windows media player files and other smaller formats.

The question that I was initially asking is this: unlike the AVI files that I get online, the AVI files that I render with Vegas don’t play on my DVD player.
I render them with my computer, then I store them in my portable drive, and then I plug the portable drive into my DVD player through the USB port. But for some reason those files rendered with Vegas don’t play. Actually the sound plays just fine. It is the video what doesn’t play. You can listen to it, but can’t see it.
Apparently there is a problem with a codec. But I don’t know if that makes any sense, because like I said, other AVI files play just fine.
So the question is: are there different types of AVI files? Is it possible that the AVI files that vegas renders are different from other AVI files?

Let me know if this is clear. Thanks so much for all your help!!!

By the way, the portable drive that I am talking about here is the same one that I have been telling you about in another thread.
Since I converted that drive from FAT32 to NTSF, the DVD player can’t find anything at all. No AVI, not JPEGs… nothing.
But that’s a different story.

Thanks again!

Jorge

[Jorge Trinchet]

Thanks for the reply, Terry!
I am not sure if I have the latest drivers for the HD and the DVD drive. I wasn’t even aware of having to upgrade them. But just in case it helps, I bought the DVD player back in June and the portable drive back in July.

How is the incompatibility showing itself?
Before it used to show me the list of folders available in the drive. Now it doesn’t show any. It just says: Disc NOT SUPPORT

Is this issue related to converting the portable drive to NTSF?
I have a flashdrive that the DVD player can still read just fine, and I just looked and the flashdrive is FAT32. That is why I think that the DVD player has trouble with NTSF.

Any feedback on this issue will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks again,

Jorge

[Jorge Trinchet]

Terry,
Somehow it finally worked! I typed “my book” as the name of the volume, and it did it.
Now the portable drive is NTSF and it can handle bigger files. However, I have noticed that now the portable drive is having trouble with my DVD player.
I have a Philips DVP 5982, which used to work very well with the portable drive. But now that the drive is NTSF, the DVD player doesn’t seem to be compatible with it.
Have you ever heard about anything like this? Are there any solutions?
Thanks a lot!

Jorge

[Jorge Trinchet]

I have tried all kinds of name combinations, and it keeps saying the same: An incorrect volume label was entered for this drive.
This is how it goes:

When I type VOL G:
It says: Volume in drive G is My Book
Volume Serial Number is B1D0-196E

Then I type: CONVERT G: /FS:NTFS

It says: The type of the file system is FAT32.
Enter current volume label for drive G:

I type: My Book B1D0-196E

It says: An incorrect volume label was entered for this drive.

By the way, sometimes when I type this directly: CONVERT G: /FS:NTSF (without previously typing VOL G:), it says: Conversion from FAT32 to NTSF volume is not available.

Any ideas?
Thanks,

Jorge

[Jorge Trinchet]

I have tried all kinds of name combinations, and it keeps saying the same: An incorrect volume label was entered for this drive.
This is how it goes:

When I type VOL G:
It says: Volume in drive G is My Book
Volume Serial Number is B1D0-196E

Then I type: CONVERT G: /FS:NTFS

It says: The type of the file system is FAT32.
Enter current volume label for drive G:

I type: My Book B1D0-196E

It says: An incorrect volume label was entered for this drive.

By the way, sometimes when I type this directly: CONVERT G: /FS:NTSF (without previously typing VOL G:), it says: Conversion from FAT32 to NTSF volume is not available.

Any ideas?
Thanks,

Jorge

[Jorge Trinchet]

Terry,
I’ve been trying to convert my portable drive to NTFS, but I have not been able to.
It is asking me: Enter current volume label for drive G: (like I said, I am converting a portable drive).
In the directions that you gave me you said: It will ask for that name in confirmation.
But what name?
I have typed: NTFS
G: /FS:NTFS
G:

No matter what I type, it always says: An incorrect volume label was entered for this drive.
What is it asking for?
Thanks!

Jorge

[Jorge Trinchet]

Terry, you were right!
The C: in my computer is formatted as NTSF, but when I saved that file, I saved it to a portable drive that I have, which is formatted as FAT32. So that is probably why it did it. Thanks so much!!!

Jorge

[Jorge Trinchet]

Sorry for posting so much.
I just check the drive and it says that it is actually NTFS. So I guess that I don’t need to convert it. I’m relieved!
Do you have any other ideas on why Vegas rendered the sequence as two separate files?
Thanks!