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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

 

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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.

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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

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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.

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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. 

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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. 

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