4 GB file limit in Android

[peterf]

Hi, I am ripping my DVDs to play back on an Android TV box running Kodi. I copy the files to a FAT32 disk which is plugged in via USB to the Android box and I control Kodi from Yatse

I have found that Android devices only take Fat32 hard drives. When I ripped the DVDs, some ripped at over 3.7 GB and would not copy to the hard drive

I've read the other items and I see that at the moment there doesn't seem to be a solution other than to manually use tools to rebreak the file into two and then rename all the files.

Would it be possible to put in a switch "Android" in preferences which automatically broke the rip into say 3GB chunks?

Is there a solution to my problem other than the manual use of tools? I am using MKVToolNix at the moment, but it is very slow

[Woodstock]

Have you TRIED using NTFS format on the flash drive? I've plugged NTFS hard drives into my Android devices that support USB before, and it worked.

[peterf]

No, I have not tried. Its a fair point. I'll format a 8 gb drive in NTFS and see what happens. It's just that according to Android itself, they do not support NTFS at this time. There is an unsupported XDA patch, but that is way to hard, and also a utility from Paragon which looked quite hopeful but it requires rot access.

At the moment I have "solved" my problem by compromising and installing PS3 Media Server and playing the movies via the PS3. That's OK, but it means that I have now have two methods of serving media to the TV, and also that I have to have my big power-hungry PC running when I am playing movies.

Anyway, thank you for the response. Hopefully my interim solution will last until Android do undertake NTFS support. It can't be too far away

[Woodstock]

The reason I asked was that I have a SmartStick that runs Android 4.0, and my testing involved plugging a 2tb NTFS-formatted external drive in to it, and it played just fine.