Using a memory stick - help please

I’m using one of those memory sticks, I download a few episodes of something to it and then plug it into my DVD player. It plays fine but the episodes are not in order. No matter how I rename them they’re always out of order. Does anyone have a solution for this?

What file format do you use please?
Do your file names start with numbers or words?
What make is your DVD player?
If you give me those details I will look into it for you.

Hi BlueDancer,

Are the episodes in ANY order? Is it always the same order if you remove and replace the drive or does it vary and seem to be somewhat random? The DVD player may not be using the name to establish the order. It may be using create date or modification date or something else. If the DVD order remains constant, check to see if you can get the order on the flash drive to match the DVD order using all available sort criteria. If you find one that matches up, then you probably discovered the method by which the DVD sorts and then you may be able to fix this problem by adjusting that information on the drive files (even if you need to make it wrong) to match the order you want (if it's possible to adjust the information by which it is sorting).

I hope this helps.

Good luck!

DVD player is - Samsung H1080R

This is all is says in the manual about USBs -

Note
• When the USB button on the remote control is pressed, a display of the USB device selection will appear.
• “USB loading” appears on the display screen.
• The USB MENU screen appears on the TV screen and the saved file is played.
• If there is a Disc in the unit, pressing the USB button will make the player exit the USB menu and load the disc.
3
Press the π/† or √/®
buttons to select a file in the
USB device. Press ENTER to
play the file.
Fast playback
To play back the disc at a faster speed, press ( / ) during playback.
• Each time you press either button, the playback speed will change as follows:
2x ➞ 4x ➞ 8x .
Safe USB Removal
Press the USB button to return to device partitions or main screen.
- Press the STOP ( ) button
- Remove the USB device.
2
If your USB device is partitioned,
press the √/® button to select
one of the partitions, then press
ENTER.
0:00:00 0:00:00 001/003 0:00:00 0:00:00 001/003
Off
You can enjoy media files such as pictures, movies and tunes saved on MP3 players, USB memory or digital camera by
connecting them to the USB port of this DVD player.
Using the USB HOST feature
Playing Media Files Using the USB Host
feature
1
Connect the USB device to the
USB Host on the
rear panel of the player.
Device
USB 1 USB 2 USB 3
Skip Forward/Back
During playback, press the ( or ) button.
• When there is more than one file, when you press the button, the next file is selected.
• When there is more than one file, when you press the button, the previous file is selected.


Episodes usually have titles (letters). No matter what order I put them in on computer. Plugged into DVD the episodes are out of order. I tried renaming them 01, 02, etc. but it didn't work. So instead of putting something on to simply play and relax to, I have to bring up the menue each time to choose the next eposode. This is the file type - VLC media file (avi)

I'm wondering if using a different media player would alter this result. Why don't you see what happens if you use the memory stick to play the files directly on your computer via on one or two different media players (i.e. Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, etc.) to see what the results would be.

Support for DVD-H1080R SAMSUNG

I went here and downloaded their manual and will have a read.
There is also a place to ask them on this page.
Will post back what I can find out

This thread sounds like a similar issue:

Help me to understand .mp3 naming issue on a DVD player reading from a USB stick - DonationCoder.com

Well I hope the answer is there because even though I checked the English button they managed to give me the French version and my French is really bad.
Will try again later, sorry medical appointment has to come first.

Hi MilesAhead, thanks for helping I've been away for a while.

ilikefree said:

Well I hope the answer is there because even though I checked the English button they managed to give me the French version and my French is really bad.
Will try again later, sorry medical appointment has to come first.

Hi MilesAhead, thanks for helping I've been away for a while.

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:D

btw I like the sig. It's a good thing to keep in mind that suggestions are things we'd try to fix the issue. Not some guaranteed solution.

Yes I wanted people to think before they did anything as people may have different ways to resolve things.
The final decision on what is done must be the computer owners.
I like to know how things work out after people use solutions they find here on the forum.

I’ve tried a few different things now.

Going off to read the link above.

Thanks folks for trying to work this out.

Help me to understand .mp3 naming issue on a DVD player reading from a USB stick - DonationCoder.com

I read it and they seem to be struggling to figure it out too.

I'm going to try a few more things.

There has to be a solution to this.

I bet it turns out to be something simple.

Try renaming them with short names like 001-and do about 10-15, 010-015
see if they stay in order.
As they will be made on the same day, the day the file was made will be covered as well.
They could be listed as date accessed,date created,file name,tags,
Still unable to get an English version of the help file so will have to convert from French to English.Will try to get it done later today.

BlueDancer said:

Help me to understand .mp3 naming issue on a DVD player reading from a USB stick - DonationCoder.com

I read it and they seem to be struggling to figure it out too.

I'm going to try a few more things.

There has to be a solution to this.

I bet it turns out to be something simple.

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I think the most relevant post in the thread is the one by f0dder concerning conversion to short names messing things up.

Update. Still no luck. Gave in and put stuff on disc.

Don’t plan to keep ‘stuff’ and using memory stick was quicker apart from the problem of the order they were in.

Would still love to find a solution.

DVD is just new. Don’t want to buy another one.

Yes, Sorry their help file was not much help at all. Didn't even mention file names.

Naming Files, Paths, and Namespaces (Windows)

Could it be something to do with 8.3 file names?

ilikefree said:

Naming Files, Paths, and Namespaces (Windows)

Could it be something to do with 8.3 file names?

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I think that's what f0dder is driving at. The resulting filenames aren't going to be what you expect:

Help me to understand .mp3 naming issue on a DVD player reading from a USB stick - DonationCoder.com

Hi BlueDancer,

This is a different way to think about the problem and may provide a method to resolve it. Instead of trying to fix the sort order from the USB to the DVD player, why not first combine the episodes together in the order you want and into one big .avi file that cannot be re-sorted by the DVD since there's only one file.

Though a bit more trouble than just copying to a DVD or USB, if these are all .avi files, there is a way to join them together into one big .avi file that will be in the precise order you want and then copy that to a DVD or USB and you will have what you want with the episodes showing in the order they were copied (since it will be just one file and not many and thus cannot be re-sorted). Here's the procedure with a link to the free software you will need to do it: DivX Digest - Joining AVI files.

I hope this helps.

Good luck!

Enjoying birthday celebration later and trying to clear up for family coming.

So I'll check that out asap. It sounds good.
I'll let you know how I get on.

Thanks everyone for your input on this one.

Thank you.