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 Originally Posted by Cantaffordit
the USB partition is FAT32 so the limit should be 4GB per file. If you are ripping movies to be more that 1GB, you are wasting space and making the TP work way too hard to render it at 1024x768
I believe I read that it's actually using vfat, which puts a limit at 2GB per file, though I can't be sure.
As for ripping movies at more than 1GB, disagree, most of my 720p rips from Bluray are around 4GB each (for a 90-120 minute movie). Even Apple would disagree, since 40 minute episodes at 720p are around 1.1GB each.
Regardless, the issue with file size is a bigger issue for those of us who don't want to re-encode anyway. I've already got my media ripped and stored on a local server that all of my other computers play from. Why would I want to spend a few hours re-encoding those just for the Touchpad before I go on a trip? Or maybe the alternative is deciding in advance what movies I might be interested in watching, but I don't like the idea of that either. It's easier to just do the ten minute transfer of whatever I want to take with me, except for the file-size limit.
...Of course most of those movies I've ripped are stored in the mkv container using x264 and Dolby Digital sound (plus subtitles for the movies which need them), so I can't play them on the built-in player anyway, but that's a whole other story. 
But yeah, I guess the only solution if you're re-encoding specifically for the Touchpad is keep it under 2GB.
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