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Yes, but you have to write really, really small to get 10 or 20 movie titles on a USB stick
Other way around. DVD capacity is 4.7Gb. I wouldn't buy a USB with less than 128Gb and you can get 1Tb now. You can fit your entire DVD collection on one USB stick.
So, are you saying that if I get a new Smart TV and put the GoPro files on a USB stick they should play back smoothly? Maybe Walmart Spark will send me one to reviewThe TV we have isn't very smart--there isn't a USB port and the stuff like VUDU and Netflix are all on the Blu-Ray player. We don't even have YouTube unless we hook up the laptop.
I didn't say that at all. I don't even know that the video is transcoded properly.
I suppose a SSD could be used to store all of my movies in alphabetical order. I guess I'd better get busy. Kinda like the proverbial egg basket though. I have enough movies to last me the rest of my life plus one good thing about getting old--if I watched a movie over 3 months ago it's just like watching a new movie!
I printed out the System Summary for the laptop with 8GB RAM but it doesn't say what kind of storage it has, but the processor is: Intel Core i5-62000 2.3 GHZ, 24000 Mhz, 2 Core, 4 logical processors. That looks like the "i7" you mentioned only it's two models earlier. From what I understand so far it sounds like this one isn't good enough. I'll look at the Apple when I get the chance. I know it cost a lot of money and isn't very old so maybe it's up to snuff.
The Passmark rating for the cpu is 3000. That is not very fast. The one in my current laptop is 6500. But I don't think this is the problem. That cpu would have been decent a few years ago and people were playing videos smoothly then.
Nobody mentioned the GoPro MAX Exporter for Windows 10 yet so maybe there's still a possibility without buying a whole bunch of new electronics. I'll try to get ahold of that laptop again in a couple of days and see what happens.
