Can't play videos.

[Kithmo]

Is the video format the same as it was on the ZS ?
I have a USB stick with some music in .mp3 format and some films on in .m4v format that played ok on my old Gen 1 ZS. On the MG4 the music plays ok but the car can't see the films it just displays "no video" on the screen.

 

[Kithmo]

I think I need to change the format to .mp4.
I was confused as these m4v films played ok on the ZS.

 

[Martinonline]

The Navi Manual says the infotainment system supports the formats: AVI, MP4, MOV, MKV, FLV. My .mov dashcam videos did not play properly but did so when converted to MP4.

 

[AusCo]

Is it only the infotainment USB port that can be used for play back of movies? I've tried the USB-C port, the usb stick gets scanned but the system doesn't find the .mp4 files that are all in the root directory. There are about 5 movies on it. It could be limited to a max file size

 

[Tight Git]

Is it only the infotainment USB port that can be used for play back of movies? I've tried the USB-C port, the usb stick gets scanned but the system doesn't find the .mp4 files that are all in the root directory. There are about 5 movies on it. It could be limited to a max file size

It's the USB-C port that plays media files not the USB-A port.

 

[Martinonline]

Not in my Trophy, I use the USB-A port. I don't have any USB-C sticks.

 

[Kithmo]

USB-A does everything.

 

[crl84]

I tried a bunch of different formats, listed them here:

Movie files on MG4 infotainment system

May be a bit left field but I've just seen a video on YouTube showing a guy playing a movie file on the MG4 infotainment system. Am I just showing my age or is that normal nowadays.

www.mgevs.com

Also I posted further down about the AviDemux program, which converts files pretty easily, to ones that the MG4 plays.