General Setup

[90312]

The FAT32 limit is for each individual file. 4GB -1 byte each. How many you can put on the thumb drive depends on the size of the drive.

[Wolfpackron]

Is that a file size of 4gb or a total size of 4gb? I transferred 4 movies that worked fine, then the next movie would not work. May be the thumb drive is going south as was mentioned before. I was not able to format using NTFS, therefore I used Fat32. My main problem is pretty much figured out. Thanks again,
WolfpackRon.

[Wolfpackron]

Is that a file size of 4 gb or total size of 4 gb on the drive. After I formatted the drive with Fat32, I transferred approx. 4 movies to the drive and started having problems again. The first 4 movies worked fine, then the next movie would not play. The thumb drive may be going south as mentioned before. Non of the movies was much over 1gb. Anyway, the problem is fixed.

[90312]

And additionally FAT32 has a 4GB file size limit. If you want to try main movie iso file you won't be able to save it on a FAT32 drive.

[signals]

As I recall, you just copy the MP4 movie to your iTunes Movies library, the next time you plug it in, it should automatically copy it onto the iPad. This depends to some extent on your iTunes settings. You do not need an app to play it, the capability is built-in.

Don't forget to turn off write caching on all removable media. If the FAT was trashed on the original jump drive, it may be on its last legs, they do wear out.

Case closed!
I used another Lexar thumb drive and it worked perfectly. I had previously tried a WD My Passport Ultra hard drive with no success. I use it to back up my computer and occasionally I have to "unlock" it to make it work. I will have to learn how to use it next.

I have been working on this problem for a long time. Thanks again.

How do I copy a DVD to an Ipad? I do not have a clue. Do I have to have an app to play a movie? Any suggestions?

WolfpackRon.

[90312]

I'm guessing here but I bet it will.

[Wolfpackron]

Formatting the thumb drive did make it work properly. I was not able to format using NTFS however. I had to redo it with FAt32.

Now that my files play on my Roku 3, will a movie containing cinavia protection on the original DVD work properly on the Roku 3?

[90312]

You might try formatting that trick thumb drive as NTFS, by default they are FAT32 and the FAT may be pooched?

[Wolfpackron]

Case closed!
I used another Lexar thumb drive and it worked perfectly. I had previously tried a WD My Passport Ultra hard drive with no success. I use it to back up my computer and occasionally I have to "unlock" it to make it work. I will have to learn how to use it next.

I have been working on this problem for a long time. Thanks again.

How do I copy a DVD to an Ipad? I do not have a clue. Do I have to have an app to play a movie? Any suggestions?

WolfpackRon.

[signals]

You are welcome, good luck with it.

[Wolfpackron]

You may have hit the nail on the head. That is a no name drive from Ebay. Even though they called it Toshiba, it has acted kinda funny. I will try another thumb drive. Thanks.

[signals]

Wow, that is more than odd. I think it points to some issue during the file transfer, possibly a defective or overheated jump drive or a cached transfer that windows never completed.

I would suggest the following:
1) test the jump drive with several other fairly large (1GB or so) files and see if the transfers complete correctly. If the drive is noticeably hot after copying a big file, let it cool before doing another one.
2) If this is a cheap, no-name jump drive, replace it with something of known quality, like a SanDisc or something similar
3) Turn off write caching for this drive (Properties->Policies, select "Optimize for Quick Removal")
4) Until this is resolved, use copy->paste instead of cut so that your original file won't be deleted

I don't think it's a DVDFab issue.

[Wolfpackron]

No, I used the DVDFab Ripper to rip the movie file to the computer. I guess post #22 is my last long post. It was not cut off, that is all there was on the scan with MediaInfo after I cut and pasted the file from my computer to the thumb drive. Not sure what gives with this scenario. Thanks for your reply.

[signals]

You have given us a lot to digest here Ron

When you say this:

All ten of these movies will play with Windows Media Player using the file ripped with DVDFab 9 to my computer.

do you mean that you put the movies on your PC using DVDFab Copy mode (instead of Ripper)?

At the bottom of post #22, the info for the file that will not play is cut off. Run that file through MediaInfo again and attach the text file output to a post using the Manage Attachments button.

[Wolfpackron]

I scanned two files with MediaInfo:

The first file, actually ripped with DVDFab 9, will play on my computer with Windows Media player. A similiar file will also play on my Roku 3 after copying it to a thumb drive. Copying took about 4 minutes to transfer to the thumb drive.

The second file, also ripped with DVDFab 9, and copied to a thumb drive will not play on my computer with Windows Media Player or Roku 3 with the thumb drive. Copying this file to the thumb drive took a very short time to transfer, less than a minute.

The question I have is what did I do differently to copy these two files to the thumb drive?

I have a total of ten movies on the thumb drive, all copied from the file ripped with DVDFab 9 from a DVD. Only two of these movies will work on my computer with Windows Media Player or my Roku 3. All ten of these movies will play with Windows Media Player using the file ripped with DVDFab 9 to my computer.

I do not think the problem is with DVDFab 9 in ripping the movie from the DVD. Something is happening when the file is copied to the thumb drive. Could codecs be a problem?

Any suggestions as to what is causing my problem? Thanks in advance,
WolfpackRon.

File that will play on computer.

General
Complete name : C:\Users\xxxxxxxxxxx\Documents\DVDFab9\Box\FIFTY_S HADES_OF_GREY\FIFTY_SHADES_OF_GREY.Title8.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID : mp42
File size : 1.03 GiB
Duration : 2h 5mn
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 1 177 Kbps
Movie name : FIFTY_SHADES_OF_GREY.Title8
Album : FIFTY_SHADES_OF_GREY
Encoded date : UTC 2015-06-11 00:18:17
Tagged date : UTC 2015-06-11 00:56:33
Writing application : DVDFab 9.2.0.1
covr : Unknown kind of value!

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Main@L3.0
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 1 frame
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 2h 5mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 1 036 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 300 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.40:1
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.200
Stream size : 934 MiB (88%)
Writing library : x264 core 142
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=1 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x1:0x111 / me=umh / subme=6 / psy=0 / mixed_ref=0 / me_range=12 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=0 / 8x8dct=0 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / threads=4 / lookahead_threads=1 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=0 / weightp=0 / keyint=24 / keyint_min=13 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc=abr / mbtree=0 / bitrate=1036 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Encoded date : UTC 2015-06-11 00:18:17
Tagged date : UTC 2015-06-11 00:56:33
Color primaries : BT.601 NTSC
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.601

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 2h 5mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 132 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 115 MiB (11%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2015-06-11 00:18:17
Tagged date : UTC 2015-06-11 00:56:33

Text
ID : 3
Format : mp4s
Codec ID : E0
Duration : 1h 58mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 2 501 bps
Maximum bit rate : 4 284 Mbps
Stream size : 2.12 MiB (0%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2015-06-11 00:18:17
Tagged date : UTC 2015-06-11 00:55:01

Menu
ID : 4
Codec ID : text
Duration : 2h 5mn
Encoded date : UTC 2015-06-11 00:18:17
Tagged date : UTC 2015-06-11 00:56:33
Bit rate mode : VBR

File that will not play on computer or Roku 3.

General
Complete name : K:\FIFTY_SHADES_OF_GREY\FIFTY_SHADES_OF_GREY.Title 8.mp4
File size : 1.03 GiB