yukonjacks
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I have an Avic f700BT, is it possible to hook up a portable hard drive via usb to run video and music
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gmcjohn
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Depends on how big the hard drive is. For example I think I read that my Kenwood DDX514 only supports a 32 GB hard drive. Does your Avic have a usb port on it?
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Not sure about your headunit.. but i know on alot of pioneers you cant run a harddrive to do video.. only music.. you have to run a video player like a video ipod or a harddrive with an on board video player to us it for video
MikeTheApeman
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Head over to AVIC411.com. You CAN run a hard drive, but there are two general caveats:
1 - Hard drive either has to be small enough to be self-powered, or you'll need to power the drive somehow (i.e., converter to plug it into)
2 - the larger the drive, the longer your boot time will be.
Truthfully, IIRC you're better off getting an iPod for all the trouble it was worth to get a big drive to work properly.
1 - Hard drive either has to be small enough to be self-powered, or you'll need to power the drive somehow (i.e., converter to plug it into)
2 - the larger the drive, the longer your boot time will be.
Truthfully, IIRC you're better off getting an iPod for all the trouble it was worth to get a big drive to work properly.
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yukonjacks
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I have an iPhone but I get tired of hooking it up then disconnecting, so I got a usb 8G flash drive, Im not sure if it will support vids, anymore the people at Bestbuy just say what ever, whether they know or not
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Why do you hook it up and disconect it.. there are self charging cables for it so you never have to take it out
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yukonjacks
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It's my iphone, not an ipod
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oh lol ooops.. dud just cop and itouch.. theyre on craigs for a $100
MikeTheApeman
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Yeah video off HD has been very suspect. I think you'd get better results off the SD card for video.
I got an older iPod Video for under $60 off eBay, 2 year warranty on it through Square Trade was $10. Worth looking at instead of a HD if you want to do video.
But seriously, AVIC411 will have better answers than here will.
I got an older iPod Video for under $60 off eBay, 2 year warranty on it through Square Trade was $10. Worth looking at instead of a HD if you want to do video.
But seriously, AVIC411 will have better answers than here will.
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yukonjacks
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got an 8g flash drive
MikeTheApeman
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That'll do audio, but not video, IIRC.
