topic Re: Bravia TV, USB filenames? in Android TV

Bravia TV, USB filenames?

integerspin — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 15:51:35 GMT

One year old 48" Bravia, sorry no idea of model.

The aim is to watch an old TV series that we have on DVDs, without a DVD drive.

I put a whole season on a USB stick, as .m4v files. I named each episode like

so: episodename-s01e01.m4v and so on. I named them so it's easy to identify

them and play them in order. The TV shows thumnail icons without a filename, it says something like

"DVD Content" on all of them. It plays them, but there is no way of knowing the episode

your going to play.

Before I put one episode at a time on the drive, is it possible to get the TV to show the filenames?

Re: Bravia TV, USB filenames?

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 19:40:37 GMT

Hi there,

Please provide your model number so we can help.

Best wishes,

Re: Bravia TV, USB filenames?

integerspin — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 13:53:26 GMT

I have had a chance to play with the television and got no further. I did come across KD 55 AF8 while I was looking.

I was sure it was smaller than 50"? I don't remember all the android build no, but there was a date and it was begining of 2019.

I did find a similar problem posted about. The reply was to get the usb icon view up then press the Option button and change the view to list view, well soemthing like that. I looked at the remote for a while, no option button. Then I found another referenace to filename and no option botton, seems I shoudl be able to press Action Menu

and change view. I tried that and none of the menu items refered to list view or icon view in any way.

Re: Bravia TV, USB filenames?

integerspin — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 16:27:13 GMT

I had a look at the metadata of one of the files, Title = DVDVolume.

So I I altered the metadata Title to "program_episode", not tried the files in the TV yet but am expecting it to work.

Re: Bravia TV, USB filenames?

Win_88 — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 15:04:00 GMT

Hi Integerspin,

I've found the supported formats by the TV over the USB port and it seems that .M4V as a format isn't supported:

https://helpguide.sony.net/tv/faep1/v1/en/04-01-03_03.html

Thanks,

Win_88

Re: Bravia TV, USB filenames?

integerspin — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 17:38:43 GMT

TheTV plays .m4v files.

When I tried the files that had edited the Title, they didn't play! They also didn't show the Title! All a bit strange as the players I tried on a computer, showed the title and played. Maybe editing the metadata had done something to the files?

I re-ripped them, still as .m4v, and put the title in the ripper software[Handbrake]. They play fine on the TV and they show the correct title. So all is well.