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Topic: playing media on USB drive ---???

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fmiller4

Total noob, so please forgive if I'm missing something obvious.

I have a ps4.
I am on Mac.
I have a Seagate 1Tb external hd.

I'm trying to put videos (mkv's) onto the HD to watch via the PS4, but when I did an exFat format on my Mac, the PS4's media player couldn't see any of the files.

Instead there were a bunch of folders ("ANDROID" "Lost.ini" for example) that don't mean anything to me.

I then formatted the drive on the PS4 as external storage. But now when I hook it up to my Mac to load video files, the Mac can't see it (it asks if I want to initialize).

Could one of you point me in the right direction here? Is the PS4 meant to be a media player at all?

Thansk!

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fmiller4

KALofKRYPTON

@fmiller4 exFAT should be OK, as is FAT32. You have to have the content in a folder named 'MOVIES' (case sensitive) though, or the PS4 won't see see it (same for audio needing to be in a 'MUSIC' folder.

External storage formatting is only for extending the available hdd volume for the PS4 OS to use for games and saves etc, so that won't work.

@JohnnyShoulder's link for supported formats is useful - the PS4 doesn't handle as many formats as the PS3 did.

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fmiller4

Thanks!
But... once formatted as exFat, is there a way to add files via a mac?

(when I attached an exFAT formatted HD I can't write to it...)

fmiller4

philh

I am also having difficulties. i want to do two things. One transfer media from my Mac to my external hard drive so I can view movies on my ps4. i also want to save game data on to my ps4. Is there a way to do this?
i did have the drive formatted and was watching movies fine but saving games on to the drive seemed difficult. So reformatted the drive on the pS4 and now my mac wont recognise it. I have erased the drive using disk utilities but really want to find a solution to do both. Any tips?

philh

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