Claire Holford asks:
I just bought a Toshiba 22DL702B. The main thing I wanted to use it for was to play .avi files, but whenever I plug in my USB, it says unsupported format. Is there any other way of playing these files? Thanks in advance for any help.
12 Answers -
Rajaa Chowdhury
October 20, 2012The File System in which your USB is formatted is not supported by your TV. Kindly format the USB drive in a file format that the TV recognizes and then copy the avi files into the usb and then give it a shot. File Systems supported should be in the handbook of the TV. Also as far as I know it supports DIVX, so probably a DIVX format will also help for the video files.
Adrian Rea
October 20, 2012Looking at the manual https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:4jc9xBolcRAJ:www.com-solutions.co.uk/pdf/917E3241-5578-4349-8298-91534092AB5B.pdf+toshiba+22dl702b+manual&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESiTToS21TyNmRA0JxNSb8g_soufQgE4Dmuuncbc_EcxS2HAu5kfQsEFHHL325SnyRzer57FXiZNhSBZ2cCfFwZ8InZF0dUf577qdLZuZ86htZcHlAn3qGjHgvxOkhYEjaqB6xsa&sig=AHIEtbTKOgKJek0AxlOPqZcQsaxcKeI2Fw
This states that the .avi format in USB mode should be MPEG2 or Xvid, it does not say it can handle DivX or Mpeg4 in USB mode however it says it can handle mpeg4 on the DVD
Yeah the model does not recognize DivX files from the USB
October 20, 2012Adrian Rea
October 20, 2012Actually, does the term “Unsupported format” come up when you plug your USB in, or when you click a file to play? Your USB must be FAT32 formatted not NTFS or other. It must be USB2 compaitible. Can you see the files you want to play?
Dimal Chandrasiri
October 20, 2012what it says that is, the device doesn’t support the file format of your USB device. try formatting it to FAT32 to and see… it should work.
luke clayhill
October 20, 2012Hi I had the same problem. My best advice would be download “any video converter professional” it’s free, and easy to use. Convert avi into whatever format your Toshiba uses.
Alex Perkins
October 20, 2012Many TV’s only play MP4 for some reason, like my Samsung. I used Freemake Video Converter to convert my .avi and .mkv files to MP4.
Dino Pearsons
October 21, 2012Using HandBrake (http://handbrake.fr/) you can convert your video files into Xvid, and you’ll be able to play them. The app is free and is available for Windows, Mac OS and Linux.
Ali Mirdadi
October 22, 2012If the usb is ntfs format, try to format it to fat32. It works in my tv but i use my harddrive
Gerald Derricutt
October 22, 2012I had troubles with sony playback,
your video needs to be in avi format or xvid sound use mpeg2
best thing to do is to try it on a small video clip first to try,then you are not wasting a lot of time
my flash drive is formatted in xFat,
if you don’t have the manual you can find it at
http://www.com-solutions.co.uk/pdf/917E3241-5578-4349-8298-91534092AB5B.pdf
Hope this is of some help
shaurya gupta
October 27, 2012Use audials available on the MUO rewards page to convert form avi to someother supported format….And try formatting the usb drive.
Jeremiah Iliffe
October 28, 2012You could convert the file using a converter such as Handbrake or google for some other options
Alisa Fish
November 23, 2012You need to know what format is playable on your TV, and then convert AVI video to the right one.