Has anyone had success playing video files on a usb stick?
I have tried numerous file formats (mp4, an actual divx encoded files, etc) and I always get unable to read file. What gives!?!? what am I doing wrong?!?! All my son wants is to watch Curious George!

Thanks!

Asked Personal Assistance, the answer they gave me was this:

Check your manual, page 4-71: MP3, AAC, M4A, and ATRAC3.

With that said, I have absolutely no clue what those are minus MP3 lol

Those are codec extensions. To play video files via a usb stick follow these directions at the bottom of this thread that I posted. It works for mine.
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Thanks Fezzik. I will definitely give that a try

That worked great! Too bad when you actually make the divx file it doesn't do that for you automatically.
But either way my son will be happy and I can ditch some cables!
Thanks!

Awesome to hear this worked out for you. We should create a sticky somewhere on how to create these videos.

I send the videos to my iPhone and go that route, works great connecting iPhone with the AV cables.

I use a program called DVD Catalyst which I have used for years. It is great for ripping dvd- any mobile device format based on the type of device you own. I noticed it also has a setting called Car System which it rips to divx format. It works perfectly for my QX60.

Is that a free program or where did you purchase the program?

It is usually $20 bucks, but it is on sale for $10 currently. https://www.tools4movies.com/

If you are a bit geeky like me, you have plenty of video files sitting around that you want to encode for the little one's use. I have used the following to convert Youtube videos, DVR files, and random video. If you use Windows, go get the 32bit static binary of FFMpeg from the link below. Then modify the following string with your source input and output video. This will create a good looking video in the AVI/MPEG4 format that looks great on the screen. This is totally free and has lots of options.

http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/

ffmpeg.exe -y -i "c:\Your\Input\Video\path.mp4" -c:v mpeg4 -vtag DIVX -q:v 6 -filter:v scale=720:-1 -r 30 -c:a libmp3lame -ar 48000 -ab 128k -ac 2 -async 48000 -threads 8 "c:\Your\Output\Video\Path.avi"