Monday, May 17, 2010

How do I format a compact flash card to play mpeg files through a Mac?

I am trying to create slidshow digital advertisements that will loop on media player box MPC110. I am unable to get this to play. I use a MAC, Illustrator to create project and after effects to format. I also tried to format it into IDVD and create a MPEG4 file. MPEG files are played easily when formatted from a pc, why not a MAC? Does mac change the file to make it more difficult to play? If I were to buy a FAT32 program, would this help?

How do I format a compact flash card to play mpeg files through a Mac?
It sounds like the MPC110 won't recognize the files until you "add" the extension.


Got this from the Apple website:





The most popular Mac applications use the exact same file formats as their Windows counterparts, making it easy to open and use files created on Windows PCs on your Mac. You can also share files using email, a network volume, recordable CDs, Zip disks, a .Mac iDisk, or other storage devices.





Some of the common file types are:





Productivity: plain text (.txt), rich text (.rtf), Word (.doc), Dbase (.dbf), Excel (.xls), PageMaker (.pm3, 4, 5, 6), PowerPoint (.ppt), Quark XPress (.qdx), Quicken (.qdf)


Media: MP3 (.mp3), AAC (.aac), AIFF (.aiff), ASF (.asf), AVI (.avi), MIDI (.midi), MPEG1, MPEG 2, and MPEG 4 video (.mpg, .mp2, .mp4), QuickTime Movie (.qt, .mov), Real Audio/Video (.ra, .ram), Wave Form Audio (.wav), Windows Media Audio and Video (.mwa, .wmv)


Graphics: BMP (.bmp), GIF (.gif), JPEG (.jpg), TIFF (.tif), PICT (.pct), EPS (.eps), Photoshop (.ps), PostScript (.ps), PDF (.pdf)


Internet: HTML (.html, .htm), MIME (.mim, .mime), XML (.xml)


Compression: Stuffit (.sit) and ZIP (.zip)


Filename extensions are usually hidden in Mac OS X. To show the filename extension for all files, choose Finder %26gt; Preferences and select "Always show file extensions."


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