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What video files will this head unit play?

It says it will play mp4 files. I have some music videos in mp4 format on a usb drive. It will say initializing and then go back to the main menu. It plays mp3 music files on the usb drive just fine. Any ideas?

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Yeah, it has to do with the codecs that you have in your player.
There are so many ways to encode video material and if your player is lacking the appropriate software they will not play back. The media players on computers are far more adept at playing videos - VLC will play back just about anything. but with TV's it is a crapshoot - DVD players are generally better then the tv's but still there is some material that even they will not play back unless it is in the right format for them.

MP4 is a video file. MP3 is audio. When setting your player make sure you tell it that it is a video file and not audio. If I mess up the two on my dvd player I will have a problem - I have to properly identify my source as either video or audio.

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