Topic: 4gb> Files On External Drive (Read 67 times)

rhysjthomas · « **on:** May 08, 2007, 06:36:00 AM »

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How to get around the 4gb limit for playing WMV-HD movies from an external USB hard disk (Taken from AVForums):

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Tonight I finally found and tested a workaround to allow WMV movies over 4GB to be played from external hard drive into a 360
Thanks to my buddy wilfguyatt it seems the magic is in the 'mac'.
He was telling me he was watching large wmv movies from an external HDD so after a couple of evenings of MSN to and from each other we've found the magic ingredient - HFS+
I'm using windows but to do this you just need to get a program to format the HDD into a mac format (HFS+). I found one called macdrive7 and had it done within minutes. Once formatted you can use the drive in windows and obviously FTP to and from it..was so chuffed cos now I have no filesize restrictions and no 2-part movies in WMV.
Well chuffed and hopefully good news for others wanting to get round the 4GB filesize limitation

I'll try this tonight. Hopefully this is useful to some of you, I know that lack of NTFS support was my number 1 bug bear on the 360.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HFS_Plus

B4tm4n · « **Reply #1 on:** May 09, 2007, 09:26:00 AM »

I did't think Windows could read HFS Plus file system ?

Acill360 · « **Reply #2 on:** May 15, 2007, 10:17:00 AM »

It can if you buy the $50 application called Macdrive 7 mentioned here in the thread.

I am a Mac user and ran into this problem after putting XP on my Macbok Pro. I never bothered with Windows on my older Macs since they were PPC and didnt run windows native, however once i started foling with DVD video and 360 backup files I did need windows. The app works great with all my external media drives formated
using HFS+ as if they were regular windows drives. It puts a small red apple over the drive icon to even let you know it a Mac drive. Very cool indeed.

deadparrot · « **Reply #3 on:** May 15, 2007, 10:20:00 AM »

Wait, so the 360 supports HFS+ but not NTFS?

Teldin · « **Reply #4 on:** August 16, 2007, 04:23:00 PM »

QUOTE(deadparrot @ May 15 2007, 09:20 AM)

Wait, so the 360 supports HFS+ but not NTFS?

Yes. Retarted isn't it?

I tried HFS+ support on the 360 for a few weeks but came to the conclusion that while the no file size limit is nice, it was quite unreliable. Some movies that played great on FAT32 crapped out every 20 seconds on HFS+. I've gone back to lame old FAT32.

twistedsymphony · « **Reply #5 on:** August 17, 2007, 09:41:00 AM »

moving to the multimedia forum where this belongs.

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