Hi, I know this question probably gets asked a lot but I was wondering if anyone here knows how to bypass the 4GB limit on files being copied over to the Skyrocket. I just recently installed a custom rom, and I know I can play .mkv files natively without any stutter. (Made a 7 minute sample to test it out) but the problem I'm having is transferring movies over to my 32GB mircosd card that are bigger than 4GB which is almost all of my HD movies.
Help?
Unfortunately this is limited by Android itself as it natively only supports FAT32 partitions. This file system has a 'natural' limitation for the maximum file size it can handle, which is 4GB.
TL;DL: No way to get around this. Make the file smaller if you want it to work.
Oh thanks, I didn't know that. That sucks, but I found a program which splits mkv files so it's okay.
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So, I have blu-ray movies ripped onto my computer. I tried copying one of them into my Captivate. Long story short, I realized that my Captivate's internal memory is set to FAT32 and cannot copy anything to it that's larger than 4gb.
My question is...
Has anyone formatted their phones internal memory to NTFS?
When I have enough money to spare a 32gb micro, I will make sure to format it to NTFS. For now I'm trying to go the cheap way. Hopefully without messing stuff up.
Thanks in advanced!!
-Rixter
I don't think that will work sorry.
NTFS is a proprietary filesystem by microsoft afaik, and android doesn't support it.
Also, I know the GS is good at playing unconverted movies, but massive bluray rips are a bit overkill.. I wouldn't put any movies on my card over 2gb imo. Waste of space.
I did a quick google, and ext2/3/4 might be supported (at least in custom roms).
Ok, a full blown blu-ray rip, in raw format is a huge waste of space on this phone. Why? Yes, the sound is good. The picture? Way overkill. It's only a 480 phone, 1080is over 2x's that, and it's reflected by the filesize and the processing power required.
2x the file to decode, then downsize. Ouchy to the battery. Use handbrake and convert down to 480*800 (or about) and keep the 5.1
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Ok, a full blown blu-ray rip, in raw format is a huge waste of space on this phone. Why? Yes, the sound is good. The picture? Way overkill. It's only a 480 phone, 1080is over 2x's that, and it's reflected by the filesize and the processing power required.
2x the file to decode, then downsize. Ouchy to the battery. Use handbrake and convert down to 480*800 (or about) and keep the 5.1
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Ok,
ummm, one more thing...
Handbrake.. can you use it to down size files already on your computer, or is it specifically for when you are ripping from a DVD?
Thanks again!!
Please, read the manual.
https://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/Sources
Sweet! Thanks mate!
I had the same problem the other day. Its weird though because the samsung software would let me copy it over fine, and i could access the file afterwards. As soon as I rebooted I lost access to the file though.
I dont know if it is actually fat32 related though. Does anyone know if we can format our SD cards to be ext3 or ext4? I'd go for that
And for all the people that say to convert stuff: sometimes you dont have time to sit around and wait for a transcode of a 2-3hr 720p video to finish. With a significant amount of hw accel on our captivates the need is reduced
The only supported filesystems on the stock kernel that would help are ext2/3. It might be possible to compile a new kernel with FUSE support, or modules for stock kernel, and use ntfs-3g. I don't know if either of these solutions will work with the volume manager that mounts the storage for internal use, which is probably hard-coded to mount as vfat.
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The only supported filesystems on the stock kernel that would help are ext2/3. It might be possible to compile a new kernel with FUSE support, or modules for stock kernel, and use ntfs-3g. I don't know if either of these solutions will work with the volume manager that mounts the storage for internal use, which is probably hard-coded to mount as vfat.
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I have used Handbrake to convert an Iron Man 2 Blu Ray movie to 720 x 264 with 30 FPS @ 1500 kbps + Stereo at 160 bitrate (audio) and it played perfectly! File size was around 1.7gb. As long as it isn't over 2g, i should be ok.
HOWEVER
When i tried to do the same with a Transformers movie...same setup and everything.....and when i tried to play on the Captivate...it would flash once, and then not play at all. What's up with that? The Transformers source was also 720 x 262 as well.
Any thoughts? All input/ criticsm/ educational bashing welcome, please.
P.S. I also experimented with downloading a friends copy of Avatar also on Blu Ray (about 3.5gb) and was already in mp4 format and transferred straight to my phone and it played perfectly as well.
There is 12GB free on my internal SD and I am trying to copy a 4GB file over but I keep getting an error saying that the disk is full. I know it isn't full. When I click on properties of the SD my PC says there is over 12GB free space but it gives me that error when I try to copy the file over. Anyone got any ideas?
I think your sd card has fat32 file system. 4gb is too large for fat32. 1 gb is max i think, maybe a bit more not much.
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Thanks for your reply. Is there a way to get large files on there? How am I supposed to put HD movies on my phone if the file is too big to transfer over?
Maybe split the file, but i think full hd is a much for your tiny phone Screen. You should check what resolution your phone has and convert the movie to that size. The output file should be smaller. Maybe small enough, but i think you still have to split that.
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Our captivate screens run at 800x480 resolution when playing a movie (landscape). Which is fairly close to the 16:9 480p resolution of 854x480 (which is actually what the Droid/Droid 2/Droid X sits pretty at). Basically, if you were to put a standard 720p video file (or even 480p) you would still things very sharply and they would be well under your 4 GB file limit. There is no need for a 1080p video on a screen incapable of showing that many pixels
As for getting around the 4 GB file size limit, the only file systems that support it are the extX file systems (our phones only natively support ext2), NTFS (not supported), HFS (not supported), and a few others, but we would need an ext2 partition which I don't even know if it's possible to change the format of the SD card to that AND have it recognized automatically by the phone.
I 2nd that, sounds you are limited by the FAT32 4GB max file size.
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I'd help you out with links but I'm on my phone and to lazy to go through that process.
Yes, you can change the file system to ext 3 I believe. You can also read the handbrake thread to get the right settings to keep your clip under 2 gigs and still play nicely on your screen. You don't have to use handbrake, just get the settings. I personally like handbrake though.
Many people are asking this question repeatedly, but it comes down to this:
1) The SD Card is running FAT32, which doesn't like 4GB+ files (even a few bytes).
2) The phone has a roughly 480p screen. Why are we all trying to shove 1080/720 content onto it?
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Many people are asking this question repeatedly, but it comes down to this:
1) The SD Card is running FAT32, which doesn't like 4GB+ files (even a few bytes).
2) The phone has a roughly 480p screen. Why are we all trying to shove 1080/720 content onto it?
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even if your argument is to use it for DLNA, it only supports 720p and the RCA out only does... what? 480i? 720p files for movies are almost always under 4GB unless you're transcoding poorly. Even mkv with 7.1 channel audio streams for me have ended up being well under the 4GB cap
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Many people are asking this question repeatedly, but it comes down to this:
1) The SD Card is running FAT32, which doesn't like 4GB+ files (even a few bytes).
2) The phone has a roughly 480p screen. Why are we all trying to shove 1080/720 content onto it?
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2. because most of the movie files are taken from the internet and they are mostly codeed in 4.37GB sized files, as per a DVD size. Since we don't really want to spend time and convert or cut such a movie file in little pieces, hence the desire to fit 4.37GB files on the N1.
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2. because most of the movie files are taken from the internet and they are mostly codeed in 4.37GB sized files, as per a DVD size. Since we don't really want to spend time and convert or cut such a movie file in little pieces, hence the desire to fit 4.37GB files on the N1.
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1) this isn't an N1.
2) You're lazy. Stop pirating and make use of FU under DMCA.
Has anyone figured out a way to put files larger than 4GB on a microSD card? I've tried ntfs, exFAT, and ext4 without luck. Tab won't recognize the card.
Kind of silly of Samsung to make a tab capable of 1080p mkv playback if it can't handle files larger than 4GB and only fat32.
Does the internal 16GB at least support larger files?
Interesting situation you have. I was looking at the movies I have on my 32Gb uSD and encoded to mp4 none exceed 1.1Gb. Have no problem playing any of them.
I have no problem playing smaller files either. But sometimes I've got larger than 4GB files originally intended for watching on my TV. It would be nice to be able to play them on the tab without having to re-encode to a smaller size.
What really confuses me is that android is based on some version of Linux. Isn't ext2, ext3, etc.. its default file system? Why won't it recognize it on the external SD card?
Do the custom kernels posted in the developers forum support it?
Most custom ROMs I've used (TF, NC) do support ex4. I've used EASUS to partition (ex4) will success. Never had issues with uSD cards also using SDFormat.
the kernel doesn't mount the external SD card... its mounted by "vold" and the fstype is hardcoded to vfat. Makings things more difficult, Google hasn't (and won't) release full source for honeycomb, so I can't rebuild the full system.
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Gary
Try fat32 formatter. I used this to format my 1TB drive which I have hooked to my PS3 to do backups to. Those images are well over 4GB.
Hi Experts,
How can we copy video files(.mkv) larger than 4GB in size to memory card?
By default its FAT32 and its having a limitation that it wont allow files> 4GB,i tried formatting to NTFS but our phone wont read that format.
Please help
you cannot copy files over 4gb to a Fat32 formatted drive
Fat32 limits the read/write capability of the drive to small file sizes. Files of 4GB and larger can only be copied to NTFS formatted and maybe other linux type (ext3/4) formatted drives.
No way around this..
Thanks John,
How you guys are watching 3D movies now??
IS there any way i can divide the file into small video files and play in our mobile??
http://www.knowyourcell.com/lg/lg-o...s_and_transfer_them_to_the_lg_optimus_3d.html
Seagate goflex satellite + es file explorer + mx video player.
500gb wireless hard drive containing an embedded linux server and wifi access point with enough battery for about 5 or 6 hours of solid streaming (i.e. video playback at 1080p).
Works pretty good. Works for 3d stuff.
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Super it worked..thanks a ton.
Able to convert 5GB file to less than 2GB file in the same 3D and in same quality.
Does android use a FAT32 file system? I was trying to transfer a 6 gb hd movie onto my phone . Apparently it's too big. Is there any way to change the file system?
Yup, fat has a limit of I believe 4gb, this is why most torrents are split into multiple archive files.
For windows machines the only way I know around this is NTFS, but the phone won't read an SD card formatted in that way.
I'm going to be honest. Why were u transfering a 6 gig movie to ur phone. At these resolutions, even 720p h264 is a stretch, but I digress. Above poster is correct, inherent 4gb file limit of fat32 is present
i would like to know if it is possible to load and play a larger then 4gb file on my sd card on my galaxy s2. (like a bluray movie)
why would i like this? because i have bought a micro usb to hdmi converter and would love to use my phone to drive my projector.
please is there anyway?
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i would like to know if it is possible to load and play a larger then 4gb file on my sd card on my galaxy s2. (like a bluray movie)
why would i like this? because i have bought a micro usb to hdmi converter and would love to use my phone to drive my projector.
please is there anyway?
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No, there is no way to place a file larger than 4 GB on a FAT32 file system. You could split file into 4 GB pieces but I am not sure how practical would this be.
Seems crazy that they would limit the functionality of the phone like that since it will do 1080p.
Is there any special rom that would allow the sd card to be formatted to a useful file system!?
I can not believe that no one has done this yet!
Thanks for the responses as i am new to this.
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Seems crazy that they would limit the functionality of the phone like that since it will do 1080p.
Is there any special rom that would allow the sd card to be formatted to a useful file system!?
I can not believe that no one has done this yet!
Thanks for the responses as i am new to this.
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It's not only the phone... If your pc is using fat32, it's in the same boat.
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