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ive read some post about watching movies on mylink screen while in park...using flash drives or sd cards...can anyone provide the video formats used. im on a mac, ive used different drives, media formats but i get nothing which personally is frustrating cause im usually pretty good with this stuff.

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I've been wondering the same thing. I can't get my files to work either. I thought maybe it was because my mylink isn't equipped with navigation, that might be the problem.

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To do this you need to formate your SD card to ntfs then just make sure the video file is mp4.

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To do this you need to formate your SD card to ntfs then just make sure the video file is mp4.

 

I didn't think mac was compatible with ntfs?

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opps, somehow missed that part of the post. Well if you have a pc then you can do it this way.

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opps, somehow missed that part of the post. Well if you have a pc then you can do it this way.

 

Disk format doesn't appear to matter. What matters is video resolution. Anything over 480 vertical resolution won't read.

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I wish I could have the Navi on my cell phone show up on my screen , kinda like video in! Would be great for alot of things.....

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To do this you need to formate your SD card to ntfs then just make sure the video file is mp4.

Mine works fine. I'm also running a Mac. Here's what I did: Used a USB drive formatted to FAT32. Put my movies in the root folder. I used MP4 format and kept my resolution to usually 480X320, however a few at 640X480 also play fine. When you insert the USB drive you have to start pushing the Media button on the radio until you cycle through to the video screen. There will be a large Browse icon on the left side of the screen. Tap the Browse button until a list of films shows up and tap the one you want to watch. I was actually surprised it worked so smoothly because they told me at the dealer that it was impossible to watch video on it.

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Mine works fine. I'm also running a Mac. Here's what I did: Used a USB drive formatted to FAT32. Put my movies in the root folder. I used MP4 format and kept my resolution to usually 480X320, however a few at 640X480 also play fine. When you insert the USB drive you have to start pushing the Media button on the radio until you cycle through to the video screen. There will be a large Browse icon on the left side of the screen. Tap the Browse button until a list of films shows up and tap the one you want to watch. I was actually surprised it worked so smoothly because they told me at the dealer that it was impossible to watch video on it.

ok...i think im missing the the resolution part...ive been using high quality files i have so i downgrade them and try again...thanks

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Why wouldn't I just load it onto my iPad and watch it in a much clearer resolution?

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