Playing videos from usb drive

bradman0087 · January 25, 2020

how do I get videos on to a usb drive to be able to watch in the truck? or an sd card? I thought I saw where this is possible aslong as I am not moving. I loaded a cartoon to usb drive for daughter to watch and it just says no content available.

Dylan B9 · January 25, 2020

You have to make sure that the video is in MP4 format. I did get this to work on my truck but in my experience it seems like the truck is kinda picky on what it will play. I used a usb flashdrive and I believe it is formatted to FAT32 but I would have to double check that. Some videos in MP4 would play then some I tried to download from youtube and convert to MP4 would not. Maybe the conversion program I used wasn't any good.

bradman0087 · January 25, 2020

My format is MS-Dos (FAT32) not sure if thats what i need or how i would change it.

Dylan B9 · January 25, 2020

If you are on windows you would plug in the flash drive then on This Pc right click on the flash drive, click format, then under file system it has a drop down where you can change the format of the drive. I read somewhere that for videos these trucks like to be formatted to Fat32. I'm pretty sure it was Fat32 but I cant remember. Do you know what format the video you are trying to play is?

bradman0087 · January 26, 2020

My format was FAT 32

Dylan B9 · January 26, 2020

What about the video itself your trying to play?

tbarn · January 26, 2020

What year is your truck. My '14 would play video. I think my '15 played it also. My '18 does not. They removed the function.

bradman0087 · January 26, 2020

Not sure i can do what I want my truck is a 2015. I was trying to put a DVD to my flash drive I just opened the dvd and copied the audio and video files to the jump drive, i tried Fat 32 and NTFS and neither will work. I can see the files but when I click video in the truck it says no content.

tbarn · January 26, 2020

Yea, you need to convert it to a different format and specific display size. There are free versions of software to do it but it's been so long I can't remember. Search the site. There have been long discussions on this topic.

Dylan B9 · January 27, 2020

20 hours ago, tbarn said:

Yea, you need to convert it to a different format and specific display size. There are free versions of software to do it but it's been so long I can't remember. Search the site. There have been long discussions on this topic.

Yes you are correct. I had forgotten about having to do this. I believe i formatted the videos I got to play on my 2016 in 480x320

bradman0087 · January 31, 2020

Ive tried everything watched all videos read all posts. tried every format and size i can think of has anyone actually gotten this to work. When I go to videos on usb from the truck I can see it, it has the playbutton and says the title of dvd. when i click on it it just takes me back to the main usb screen.

Dylan B9 · February 1, 2020

If you want I can send you a video file that works on my truck to see if it works on yours. The video is an episode of dukes of hazzard lol. Its to large to attach to this. This way you can see if its just the video you are trying to play that will not work or the truck itself not playing videos at all for what ever reason.

bradman0087 · February 1, 2020

Dylan B9 that would be great.

Demeter · March 29, 2022

On 1/31/2020 at 7:06 PM, Dylan B9 said:

If you want I can send you a video file that works on my truck to see if it works on yours. The video is an episode of dukes of hazzard lol. Its to large to attach to this. This way you can see if its just the video you are trying to play that will not work or the truck itself not playing videos at all for what ever reason.

Can you send me as well. I can’t get to work.