My neighbour has an external multimedia HDD and he has there a movie in the .mov format. He wants to be able to read it on a Sony TV set with an HDMI connection. The system's anwers is impossible or something like that.
1 What is wrong ?
2 Does the iMac need to be connected to the HDD ?
Sydney
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)
Do you mean play the movie on the TV (not read)? If the movie can be played in, say, QuickTime, and .mov's generally can, if not use vlc, then simply hook the TV to your iMac with appropriate adapters, fiddle a little with the Displays system preferences, and you are good to go.
In other words you play the movie on your computer -- it doesn't matter where the movie is kept on your system -- and view it on your TV or just your monitor if you don't want to connect the TV.
Update:
On rereading your post, where you used the word "read" and I interpreted that as "play", did you really mean "HDD" as a hard drive (usual meaning of "HDD") connected to your mac, or are you using "HDD" to mean something else too? My reply above interpreted that as a hard drive containing the movie mounted on your mac.
If this is some kind of multimedia player with it's own hard drive then I am not sure how you would play it on your mac. I would assume the player itself has its own video out connections (HDMI?) that you could connect directly to the TV. Mac is not involved.
I'm assuming the USB connected external hard drive (or USB thumb drive) is formatted as FAT32.
The movie format needs to be something like MPEG-1 and WMV (a Windows video format). There may be others. You may be able to use something like Handbrake to convert the .mov file
You might try a Google search for "Sony Bravia movie formats"
The alternative is to play the .mov on your Mac and use an HDMI adaptor for your Mac to connec to the Sony Bravia (I've done this, and it works rather well).
Message was edited by: BobHarris
cohen boulakia wrote:
The system's anwers is impossible or something like that.
1 What is wrong ?
Something like that.
Although Sony TV official website says Sony TV can support to play MPEG, MTS, M2TS, and MP4 formats via USB, but in practice you still meet occasions where you can't play video on Sony TV like can't play MOV, WMV, AVI, MKV on Sony Smart TV. Sometimes, even can't play MP4 on Sony TV, for only those MP4 with the codec and resolution conforming with the default setting of Sony TV can be played by Sony TV. If so for playing MP4, not to mention playing AVCHD, M4V, RMVB, MTS, MPG on Sony TV.
In order to play all kinds of videos on Sony TV smoothly, the direct and workable solution is to convert Sony TV unsupported video files to Sony TV more compatible format. This article will introduce a Sony TV Video Converter and a step by step guide to convert Sony TV unsupported MOV, AVI, WMV, MP4, MKV, and M4V to Sony TV format to play video on Sony TV.
How do i read a movie *.mov on a Sony TV Set ?
