Alright guys, it's time for you to show me how tech-savvy you lot are - this problem has pretty much dumbfounded me.
So here's the deal. A friend's MacBook had a few MKV files on it that I copied onto a hard drive and plugged the hard drive into my TV and played them on the TV. Worked fine. Everything was great. I sourced more MKV files onto the Mac, copied to the HDD and played on the TV. Woo.
NOW.
I used my MacBook the other day. There's an MKV file on my MacBook that I copied into the same hard drive - but when I played the hard drive on the TV, it said that the file cannot be played.
WTF?
So. I played the file on my MacBook from the internal HDD - it worked. I copied the file to the external drive and tried to play it on my MacBook - it didn't work. This is really strange. The same file plays fine when it's stored on my internal hard drive, but as soon as I copy it onto an external drive to play it (on MacBook or on TV) - it doesn't play.
For all of you wondering - I have Paragon NTFS installed on my MacBook as well which lets me read and write files, same as my friend's Mac. What do you think the problem could be GT? What's happening to the file when it's transferred to the hard drive that it's not playing?
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Alright guys, it's time for you to show me how tech-savvy you lot are - this problem has pretty much dumbfounded me.
So here's the deal. A friend's MacBook had a few MKV files on it that I copied onto a hard drive and plugged the hard drive into my TV and played them on the TV. Worked fine. Everything was great. I sourced more MKV files onto the Mac, copied to the HDD and played on the TV. Woo.
NOW.
I used my MacBook the other day. There's an MKV file on my MacBook that I copied into the same hard drive - but when I played the hard drive on the TV, it said that the file cannot be played.
WTF?
So. I played the file on my MacBook from the internal HDD - it worked. I copied the file to the external drive and tried to play it on my MacBook - it didn't work. This is really strange. The same file plays fine when it's stored on my internal hard drive, but as soon as I copy it onto an external drive to play it (on MacBook or on TV) - it doesn't play.
For all of you wondering - I have Paragon NTFS installed on my MacBook as well which lets me read and write files, same as my friend's Mac. What do you think the problem could be GT? What's happening to the file when it's transferred to the hard drive that it's not playing?
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