I was wondering how much memory I would need to download and store a movie on a portable flash drive? Would it be acceptable to get a 1gb or 2gb flash usb drive? Do I need to compress the movies? I basically would like to download a movie and watch it at work through the usb port. Also, anyone know of any good websites to download movies? How much memory does a movie take up?
2007-01-24 00:05:48 · 6 answers · asked by jphegger 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
A typical compress movie which is in .avi format could be put on a 1 gig drive, the typical compressed movie is 700MB and there is 1,000 MB available on a 1 gig drive...
However to and from computers it will take a lot of time to transfer the movie from the drive, probably about 10 minutes.
2007-01-24 00:10:05 · answer #1 · answered by Danlow 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
On 1 or 2 Gig Flash Drives... you would have to have a small or VERY compressed movie. See about an 8 Gig Flash drive, most the Size of a 1-2 GIG Flash anyways
2007-01-24 00:08:55 · answer #2 · answered by Mictlan_KISS 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some software packages will allow you to compress a movie and a player on a small usb drive. However, it is best to get a usb Hard Drive that it usb powered. A 60GB drive cost about 50-80 dollars and you can put 10+ moves on it.
2007-01-24 00:11:19 · answer #3 · answered by itpatrickrice 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Portable flash drives (aka - USB flash drives) are great for taking data from one computer to another computer. All you have to do is plug the drive into the USB port and the computer will recognize it as a hard drive and you can save files onto the drive. Then take the drive to another computer and plug it in and you can get the data off. They are also very hand for giving out information. For example, you can buy very cheap USB drives and load them with presentations and hand them out at trade shows, etc.
2016-03-14 23:14:47 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The rough rule of thumb is one hour of video requires 2 Gb of storage.
There are 2Gb flash drives, and there are 52 minute movies, and you can even get 8 or 16Gb usb sticks. But, what's wrong with DVDs?
2007-01-24 00:42:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a website which allows u to watch movies online so why bother with downloading movies and then moving them to a flash drive and then loading it onto ur work PC and then watching it. The website is "www.peekvid.com".
Iam wondering how u get the time to watch a movie at work. Is ur boss not at work and working from home? lol
Just jokin mate.
Hope I was helpful.
2007-01-24 00:44:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
usually either around 700 and 1.5 gb per movie, uness they r in full dvd quality then its up to round 5gb
2007-01-24 00:11:36 · answer #7 · answered by tru_story 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋