Your drive HAS to have a MBR partition table: it won't read any drive with a GPT partition table, even if the content partition is one it can support.Īssuming that the drive has a MBR (MS-DOS) partition table, then the DSS200's filesystem compatibility appears to be as follows:įor ext2/3, the DSS200 is not fussy about the inode size. It will not accept the MAC/Apple file systems.įrom my DSS200 trials and errors, I'm pretty sure that the situation is as follows. Problem using NTFS on a Dolby DSS 200, and I've done this severalĭozen times on at least half a dozen (and possibly more) servers atīut that server will also accept Fat32 and to a lesser, not so reliable, extent NTFS. Must say that my personal experience is that I've never had any Mike gave you basically good advice about the file systems, but I The content must be ingested into the server first, & played back off of It will not accept the MAC/Apple file systems.Īlso - be aware that you can not "live play" content through the USB port. The external USB3 hard drive should be partitioned with Ext2 or Ext3 ideally but that server will also accept Fat32 and to a lesser, not so reliable, extent NTFS.
If you've already turned your film into a DCP then you should be good to go as long as it's the standard framerates and it's Interop or Smpte. What file formats of the hard drive that can be readable by the DSS200 ? I have two questions.ĭose the DSS200 accept hard drive input throw USB port, in other words, can I play my film with a normal USB3.0 Hard drive throw USB port?
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