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.
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