[Sony BDP-S370] play large mkv files

[wapper20]

Hi all,

I recently bought the Sony BDP-S370 blu-ray player, but have a problem with playing large mkv files.

I have an external hdd and want to place the mkv files on it.

But since the player only supports FAT32, the large files won't fit.

I tried solving this by remuxing the mkv files to a AVCHD disk, and split it in smaller partitions.

The  result is a BDMV directory, and when I place it in the root dir of the  HDD, the player recognizes and plays it. But when I move the directory  to a subdirectory, or rename it, the player won't recoginze it anymore.

So I can only play one movie: the movie in the BDMV dir...

Does anyone has a solution to play large mkv files from hdd?

[craig.mcdougall]

You need to split the MKV files into 4gb or smaller chunks.

Download MKVTOOLNIX and use MKVMERGE GUI to split the files.

From experience this can take a while (athough my PC is a bit slow).

Alternatively convert the MKV files to M2TS using TSMUXERGUI.

The only downside is you lose subs and chapters but I'm not sure if these work on the Sony with MKV anyway.

This also gives you the option to split the file into chunks, but seems a lot faster than MKVMERGE GUI.

There is no way to play files larger than 4Gb from USB without splitting, as only FAT32 is supported (not more advanced file systems like NTFS etc).

Craig