HD wedding video on a USB Flash Drive..??

I want to deliver my wedding footage on a USB flash drive. I was under the impression that a MV4 (H 264 codec) would easily play from any USB port on a TV, cable box (so equipped) or multi media player. I am getting conflicting answers and results, does anyone here have any feedback for me?

David, just out of curiosity: is the .mp4 format not considered to be playable on every platform or device?

Best wishes,

Ronny

The question should be "h.264 MP4" or something similar. I doubt MV4 is very universal because I've never even heard of it.

Hi Joe,

You are correct, I meant H.264 wrapped in the .mp4 container, my bad. We call this MPEG-4 for ease of use.

I was asking this because we jus finished 130 films for a client who wants to offer his 130 members (all not-for-profit organizations) a short film about their work on USB sticks. The whole thing is handled by an advertising agency and they have specifically asked to use H.264 MP4 as the final delivery format on the sticks because according to them this format can be played on any platform and any hardware without any problems.

MV4 is just a common name for M4V, which is the proper term. In fact it's just H.264 wrapped in a .mov container. It used to be a proprietary format to Apple's iTunes, similar to MP4 but with DRM protection and AC3 audio. Nowadays it plays on any platform and most media players.

Best wishes,

Ronny

There is an other problem which might occur with HD: it depends also on the speed of the USB flash drives if you can seamlessly play back HD video directly from the device - and that includes also the amount of compression you are willing / you have to apply to the file.

In addition USB itself is not ideal for a continuous stream to play back, as we know already from DV (only Firewire HDs were used for editing, USB connections produced a stuttering unusable image).

Uncompressed HD even stutters played back from my (rather full..) internal HD; the full HD trailers from trailers.apple.com on the other hand run - and look - perfect, wonder which compressions they use...

LG

Hi, Buddy
You can try use a USB Android TV Stick to store the Video. And connect the stick to the digital TV.

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