Difference between avi files and mkv files

**Linny40** · 07-05-2011, 04:38 PM

Have put some files on my harddrive to use with bluray player but some files are avi which work and some are mkv ( or which ever way round it should be) so on my pc both files work. But what i want to know is can i convert these files from
Mkv to avi so that i can play them on my bluray player or would i need to redownload them in avi format

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**bobby123** · 07-05-2011, 04:51 PM

try this video converter hope it helps
Free-Codecs.com :: Download MediaCoder 0.8.0.5137 : MediaCoder is an open source audio/video batch transcoder

**Linny40** · 07-05-2011, 05:08 PM

Cheers bobby will check that out 2mora when im back on pc. At least ive left hubby a few films he can watch tonight whilst im working. Just also grateful that the bluray had a usb port so we can watch other films

my other dvd players dont have usb port.
Oh another thing cant seem to get the hard drive to work on the xbox or ps3 when i plug it into the usb its not recognised - any reason as the xbox recongises a usb pen drive???
Ps HD is 1 tb if that makes a difference

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**axxxo** · 07-05-2011, 05:18 PM

If the hard drive is 1TB its probably not formatted to FAT32 like the pen drive would be.

**Icanbe** · 07-05-2011, 07:07 PM

Format the drive to fat32, then create a folder called "PS3" then just create a folder inside the PS3 folder and name it "MOVIES".

You should be good to go then Linny

**Gman496** · 07-05-2011, 07:28 PM

Just be aware of the disadvantage of formatting to FAT32 Linny.

The Maximum single file size on a FAT32 drive is 4,294,967,295 bytes.

**dan-ger-ous** · 07-05-2011, 08:16 PM

Just another thing, if your movies don't show up, you could try pressing triangle on "Video" and then select display all, and all your files should be there. Considering what Gman said, if most of your blurays are above 4.2GB then you will run into problems transferring the file over to your FAT32 hard drive.

**Linny40** · 07-05-2011, 10:29 PM

When i formatted the drive i think it said exfat rather than fat32 cheers dan ill try that also 2 mora. Just come in from work & watching unstopable which i think is a big file coz its bluray ive got 2 copies on there & i know 1 is 6 gb

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Added after 2 minutes:

Hd was i think ntfs but formated it for it to work on bluray player

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**axxxo** · 07-05-2011, 10:49 PM

Linny if your downloading these bluray flicks then what you should do is watch out for bluray rips that have DivX written after them, these are top quality rips in DivX format which would be a quarter the size of an actual bluray rip. Waste of bandwith if you ask me when the divx are just as good.