#Mac format usb for smart tv for mac#
#Mac format usb for smart tv movie#
#Mac format usb for smart tv driver#
#Mac format usb for smart tv archive#

Svn co svn:///libdca/trunk libdcaĬp /ConverterTemp/mkvdts2ac3/mkvdts2ac3.sh /ConverterTemp/mkvdts2ac3/mkvdts2ac3 Same as above, use the Finder to decompress the aften file into the aften-0.0.8 folder

#Mac format usb for smart tv archive#

:Īt this point, I just opened the /ConverterTemp folder & ungzipped/untarred the file using the built-in OS X Archive Helper. Once you've got XCode installed, here is a script for what to type in the terminal (warning: this may not work on versions of OS X prior to Snow Leopard): You'll have to register as an Apple Developer (free) to download it. It's called mkvdts2ac3 and it bundles together several other command-line tools to do the job. Even more unfortunately, it also requires that you have XCode (OS X Developer tools) installed. Unfortunately, the best choice for this job is still one that requires the use of the command line. Windows users have, I gather, several tools with GUIs that they can use to convert the DTS soundtracks that are common in MKV files to AC3.

#Mac format usb for smart tv movie#

You'll either get a silent movie or you'll hear an alternate audio track (usually director's commentary) that's already in AC3. Converting DTS soundtracks to AC3 in MKV filesĭTS soundtracks won't play on LG televisions.

#Mac format usb for smart tv for mac#

There's a third problem for Mac users that is unrelated to the other two:ģ.

That'll leave you with just your actual files listed on the LG. It will keep all the mac metadata files (there are others besides resource forks) from being written to drives that haven't been formatted for macs and it'll also clean the metadata files that are already there.

It costs US$16.95 but is money well spent IMO. The best way that I've found is a Preference Pane called BlueHarvest. Your LG doesn't use them but still sees them when you list the contents of your hard drive/USB key.įortunately, there's a way to get rid of them. These extraneous files are 'resource fork' files that contain metadata that OS X uses for things like icon and window positions. If your folder has any significant number of files, it can be quite annoying. So you'll have to page through half the files in any folder before you get to the content ones. This is a bit annoying since in the alphabetical system the LG uses, '.' comes before any letter of the alphabet. So if you have a movie file called 'Up.mkv', you'll also have a file called '._Up.mkv'. Every file will be accompanied by a zero byte file of the same name preceded by the. If you've formatted your drive as NTFS and have loaded it up with a bunch of media files, you'll be able to play them on your LG TV. This will allow you to manage the files on the USB drive using your Mac and you'll be able to connect it to the LG TV and play the files. If your drive is not already formatted as NTFS, you will now have the option in Disk Utility to format it as NTFS. Then you'll have the ability to read and write to NTFS drives.

#Mac format usb for smart tv driver#

The solution is an NTFS driver for mac called NTFS-3G. But-second problem-Macs can read NTFS partitions but cannot write to them. But unfortunately, FAT32 drives have a maximum file size of 4GB and it's very easy to have video files that are larger than that. Fine, you say, the mac will read and write to FAT32 drives.

They won't recognise drives formatted in the Mac native HFS+ format. The LG sets will accept hard drives and USB keys formatted as either FAT32 or NTFS. So here is a guide to three problem areas for mac users based on what I've learned. I especially love the functionality of the USB port, to which I've connected a drive.īut I'm a Macintosh user and managing USB drives to play on the LG set is not self-evident. I recently got an LG 32SL8000 and am loving it.