If you export your video to Uncompressed AVI, can you copy the file to a USB stick and play it on the TV?
Depends on the TV. Your TVs instruction book should say which files it is capable of playing. It would also have to be at the proper frame rate. Both my TVs can play files from a memory stick but only one will play AVI files and then not at frame rates over 30fps. Large files can also take some time to start loading.
@Former user
Hi
. . . . Uncompressed AVI, can you copy the file to a USB stick . . . .
If the TV can play AVI files there is a bigger issue - USB stick are normally formatted to FAT32 file system which puts a limitation of 4GB on the file size.
This limit with an uncompressed AVI file with restrict you to less than 30 secs of video.
To overcome this the USB stick would have to be formatted to NTFS and the TV would have to be able to read this file system format.
Even then you are looking at files sizes of approx 8 - 9 GB per min for uncompressed AVI.
Most TV's that can play video from a USB stick support MP4 or AVCHD which have significantly smaller file sizes, and in properly optimised cases, the difference in image quality compared to uncompressed AVI, is negligible.
There are quality 'restrictions', ie the resolution of the video compared to the TV, eg if you play FullHD 1920x1080 on a 4K TV then you are going to lose some quality irrespective of the video file format, however with FullHD on a FullHD TV then it is unlikely you would notice the difference between the AVI and MP4/AVCHD file formats.
HTH
John EB
@Former user
Hi
. . . . Uncompressed AVI, can you copy the file to a USB stick . . . .
If the TV can play AVI files there is a bigger issue - USB stick are normally formatted to FAT32 file system which puts a limitation of 4GB on the file size.
This limit with an uncompressed AVI file with restrict you to less than 30 secs of video.
To overcome this the USB stick would have to be formatted to NTFS and the TV would have to be able to read this file system format.
Even then you are looking at files sizes of approx 8 - 9 GB per min for uncompressed AVI.
Most TV's that can play video from a USB stick support MP4 or AVCHD which have significantly smaller file sizes, and in properly optimised cases, the difference in image quality compared to uncompressed AVI, is negligible.
There are quality 'restrictions', ie the resolution of the video compared to the TV, eg if you play FullHD 1920x1080 on a 4K TV then you are going to lose some quality irrespective of the video file format, however with FullHD on a FullHD TV then it is unlikely you would notice the difference between the AVI and MP4/AVCHD file formats.
HTH
John EB
But then won’t the video be compressed in an MP4 or AVCHD file?
Hi
. . . But then won’t the video be compressed in an MP4 or AVCHD file? . . .
Yes considerably compared to an uncompressed AVI file, however as I said above - the difference in image quality compared to uncompressed AVI, is negligible subject to the quality 'restrictions' I mentioned.
I practical terms it is not feasible to try playing uncompressed video from a USB stick not only because of the file size limitation. There is also the question of whether the TV's USB data transfer speeds can handle the required data rate for uncompressed video.
USB 2 has a theoretical max transfer rate of 60 MB/s (480Mb/s) and certainly cannot deliver the required data rate of approx 155 MB/s (1220 Mb/s)
USB 3 has a theoretical max transfer rate of 640 MB/s (5000 Mb/s), in real world terms ~ half the theoretical, should be able to deliver the require datarate however the previously mentioned file size limitation makes this impractical.
HTH
John EB