none@given wrote in news:q1m08b58fc7ttldi4t3oai3l9g9ktupr7c@4ax.com:
> On Sun, 27 Dec 2015 10:13:50 -0600, Colonel Buckshot
> <buckshot@buckshot.com> wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 27 Dec 2015 00:44:19 GMT, Sara Bellum <Sara@cortex.com> wrote:
>>
>>>noone <noone@nowhere.net> wrote in
>>>news:567f2639$0$4459$b1db1813$79461190 @news.astraweb.com:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 26 Dec 2015 21:21:01 +0000, Sara Bellum wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I know there are brilliant experts here.
>>>>>
>>>>> My niece has a Panasonic DVD player, which has a USB port on it.
>>>>> Rather than keep making separate Video format DVDs for each film
>>>>> and posting them to her, as I have always done up to now, at great
>>>>> postal expense, I wish to put more than one film, as avi files, on
>>>>> a DVD and post just the one DVD, at a time.
>>>>>
>>>>> I will put the avi files on a DVD using my Windows7 PC.
>>>>> Using her Mac computer, does anybody now if she will be able to
>>>>> copy
>>>the
>>>>> avi files from the DVD and paste on the fat32 flash drive?
>>>>>
>>>>> Any guidance would be appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, she can. It's just a simple file copy. But why go to the
>>>> trouble of burning a DVD with the risk of damage in the post and
>>>> not just send her a flash drive in the first place? It's smaller,
>>>> less likely to get damaged in the post and can easily have a larger
>>>> capacity and cuts out the time you both take at each end to copy
>>>> to/from the DVD.
>>>>
>>>> You can certainly format with FAT32 up to 32GB in size but you have
>>>> to watch out for very large files. Individual files over about 4GB
>>>> will break
>>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks for the guidance.
>>>The USB function on the video player will only read FAT32 formatted
>>>Flash Drives. I am aware of the size limitation on FAT formatted
>>>drives. The postage cost will be OK, as I can get 3 DVDs in one
>>>envelope and pay for one stamp. My DVDs have always travelled safely
>>>as they are inserted between two layers of cereal cardboard and the
>>>whole package has immense strength. I have been doing this safely
>>>for years. It was just I am not familiar with Mac computers and did
>>>not know if you can copy files on them and paste on other drives.
>>>
>>>I would not post the flash drive itself as things tend to go astray
>>>in the post. The Blank DVDs only cost me 11p each. Also postage will
>>>be incurred sending the flash drive both ways and doubling the risk
>>>of it being knicked.
>>>
>>>I cannot just transfer the files themselves via the Internet as she
>>>has a limited data download package.
>
> All these solutions are vastly over-complicating the problem.
>
> Do what I do:
>
> I use Windows machines.
> I have a friend who uses Macs.
>
> Any media files that I want to send them, I copy onto a USB key. These
> are dirt cheap now. especially the ones under 16 Gb. They have no
> value as objects -- never lost one yet, but wouldn't care if I did.
>
> Don't waste time, effort or money writing DVDs. Yesterday's solution,
> obsolete now..
>
> Copy the media files onto the USB key.
> Mail the USB key to her.
>
> She puts the USB key in her Mac, and plays the media files FROM THE
> MAC.
>
> If desired, using the TV as an output monitor via an HDMI cable.
>
> Leave the hardware DVD player out of the equation entirely for this.
> It's not needed.
>
>
> OK, thanks for the advice
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