Filesystem that is readable by both xbox one usb port and android otg?

January 2, 2015 11:24 AM

I want to rip my dvds onto a flash drive and have them be playable on both my nexus 7 2013 and my xbox one. What filesystem will work best for this? Needs to support 5-7gb files
posted by mamamia88 to Computers & Internet (11 answers total)

Response by poster: oh and i only use a ubuntu computer right now so ext4 isn't out of the question if needbe
posted by mamamia88 at 11:24 AM on January 2, 2015

If you can get it to work from your linux box, exFAT will probably work the best with the XB1 and the Android devices. The XB1 will almost certainly not support ext4; I think it's limited to NTFS, and FAT variants.
posted by aubilenon at 12:42 PM on January 2, 2015

According this reddit the Xbox One supports FAT16, FAT32, exFAT, and NTFS. While the Nexus Media Importer says it must be formatted as FAT16, FAT32 or NTFS (no exFAT).

So you'll want to use NTFS.
posted by zinon at 12:47 PM on January 2, 2015

Response by poster: exfat works on my phone but not lollipop nexus 7 apparently
posted by mamamia88 at 1:06 PM on January 2, 2015

You really only need support for >2GB files if you're doing your DVD rips as .iso images or transcoding them with a very generous bitrate. If you do your DVD rips simply by copying the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS root folders from the DVD to subfolders on your flash drive, you should find that they work even if you're using FAT32 and even if your FAT32 implementation suffers from the Linux 2GB filesize limitation. The .VOB files on a DVD that hold the actual video are limited to 1GB by design.

To make that work on Ubuntu, make sure you have the libdvdcss2 and lsdvd packages installed.
posted by flabdablet at 4:56 AM on January 3, 2015

Response by poster: I'm ripping as mkv dumping the audio/video tracks into one container basically untouched. It takes 10 minutes to rip a movie but 45 to crappily encode/compress it. 128gb is enough for 20-25 dvds dumped onto it which is more than enough for me.
posted by mamamia88 at 6:41 AM on January 3, 2015

If you're avoiding transcoding to save time, there's really not much point moving your A/V streams into a different container. A simple copy of the DVD's native VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders should run every bit as fast as the copy-mode repackaging you're doing now, and won't make any files bigger than 1GiB.
posted by flabdablet at 9:46 AM on January 3, 2015

Response by poster: True but, i like it all in one package. Nice and neat
posted by mamamia88 at 10:07 AM on January 3, 2015

NTFS is probably your best bet then.
posted by flabdablet at 10:48 AM on January 3, 2015

Response by poster: Yep been using ntfs on and off for the last couple days with nexus media importer and the only problem I could find was the resume feature in mx player wasn't an option. Not a big deal really. But, I'll have to look into it more. Works on my xbox one and samsung smart tv as well which is awesome.
posted by mamamia88 at 11:40 AM on January 3, 2015

the resume feature in mx player wasn't an option

I'd be astonished to find that this was a filesystem-related issue. I'd be much less astonished to find that it had something to do with your chosen container format.

If I were you, I'd overcome my "nice and neat" preference for just long enough to do one rip as a straight folder copy and see if mx player likes that any better.
posted by flabdablet at 7:02 AM on January 4, 2015