Cowon J3 NTFS

[TheFoxDemon]

Is there a possibility to turn the J3 into an NTFS mode instead of Fat32?
And if there is not, is that possible to extend the maximum file size the Fat32 allows? (only 4,096kb at max)
Thanks.

[CrowdAds]

[Marvin the Martian]

Why would you need a file bigger than 4,096kb?

[deadohiosky]

actually a file can be as big as 4GiB under FAT32, i don't see you problem.

you don't need ntfs at all.


oh, and no it would be rather dumb to format to ntfs, as it will brick the J3. it doesn't "understand" ntfs.

[rohit3192]

^My friend had accidentally formatted to NTFS and player booted well.
No files were transferred to check.
BUT I STRONGLY OPPOSE TO GO AGAINST PRESCRIBED FORMAT.
as a media player it is obvious that big size files not required.

[deadohiosky]

well, the player will reformat to fat32. so you're friend did nothing but waste time

http://iaudiophile.net/forums/showpo...29&postcount=5

[rohit3192]

There is a reason for that : when you format, some protective files are not erased.
These protective files restore partition and default folders(Music,video,system,etc).

[briant1234]

im confused. So does this mean that i cannot transfer a 5gb movie to the cowon J3? What if i used WMP or The Cowon Media Center? would it work then? so does the 4gb limitation only apply to drag and drop?

[Marvin the Martian]

Originally Posted by briant1234

im confused. So does this mean that i cannot transfer a 5gb movie to the cowon J3? What if i used WMP or The Cowon Media Center? would it work then? so does the 4gb limitation only apply to drag and drop?

Why would you need a movie to be 5GB anyways? Do you have an 4-hour movie on your computer or something? I converted a DVD that runs one hour, fifty minutes, to 1,280x720, and it came out to 2.04GB. I don't know if a J3 will even play that resolution, but if it did, it would take a nearly 4 hour movie to hit 4GB. But a somewhat lower setting than 1,280x720 would save a lot of space, and probably still look very good on a J3.

[Urne]

My movies are at 480x272 and the biggest movie is only at 1.2GB (3 hours approx). I also don't see any need for using any larger resolution for the movie than what the J3 screen is, unless you're also buying the TV-Out cable.

[briant1234]

well i have saving private ryan in a mpg format, and it is 4.15gb. Does anybody have suggestions for software that could convert it to a smaller size?

[dfkt]

The J3 doesn't support MPEG2 anyways (I assume it's MPEG2 since ~4GB would be about a full unconverted DVD worth of data). Well, it doesn't support MPEG1 either, so that's that.

Here's an excellent tutorial on creating quality transcodes that play on the J3: http://anythingbutipod.com/forum/showthread.php?t=56633