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by DarthNebo 1094 days ago
Absolutely love this on my Android TV, I just spin up a container on my laptop with mounted folders & I am able to play large files without plugging & copying anything to a USB drive. Android TVs for some reason cannot fathom that video files >4GB do exist along with other basic filesystems like ExFAT & NTFS......smh
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yrro 1094 days ago
I expect the manufacturers don't want to license Microsoft's patents.
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iamtedd 1093 days ago
Linux has support for exFAT via FUSE since 2009. In 2013, Samsung Electronics published a Linux driver for exFAT under GPL. On 28 August 2019, Microsoft published the exFAT specification and released the patent to the Open Invention Network members. The Linux kernel introduced native exFAT support with the 5.4 release in November 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT

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jeroenhd 1094 days ago
ExFAT and NTFS are in the Linux kernel already. I don't think they'd need to license them at this point.
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toast0 1094 days ago
In the kernel doesn't mean you have a license to use it.
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jeroenhd 1094 days ago
Technically yes, but companies can join the OIN for free and ship it for free.

Lots of companies are in that list (https://openinventionnetwork.com/community-alphabetical/) including Google, Sony, Amazon, and hundreds of other companies.

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selectodude 1094 days ago
I think the GPL license kind of implies that you do have a license to use it.
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toast0 1094 days ago
How does a copyright license imply a license of a third party's patent?

Open source mpeg codecs don't come with a patent license from mpeg and friends. Neither does a open source file system driver come with a patent license from microsoft and friends.

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jeroenhd 1094 days ago
That's GPLv3, GPLv2 (which the exFAT code was licensed under) doesn't include patent rights.
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jeroenhd 1094 days ago
From what I can raad, the 4GB file limit for SMB seems to come from Samba using SMB 2 compatibility. You should disable SMB 2 for security anyway, but it's possible the SMB client still messes up.

In that case, if you're entering a hostname manually somewhere, try replacing smb:// with cifs://. That should force it to use a modern standard that's capable of 4GB+ files.

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