Have VW changed iPod leads again?

[cl0nd0n]

Hi all

Just had my Carbon Grey GTD delivered today.... Very exciting. I was interested to see they delivered the car with the MDI cable (not the red collar one I said I would need) and it was pointless anyway as the MDI port no longer exists. I was a BW50 car.

So all we have now is the USB port. I have tried an iPod touch (30 Pin cable), iPhone 4 and iPhone 5. All play music fine and the album art comes us. However when playing music videos or movies all you get is audio and no video. Now this is a real pain as I planned on leaving a 160Gb iPad Classic permanently hooked up with movies, music videos and all my music in the car.

I have popped a few movies on an SD card and they play fine, also transferred then to the juke box and they play fine.

Any ideas? Am I missing something or is playing any video from an Apple device just not going to work now we have USB only?

Am I right in saying you guys with the red collar MDI lead and MDI port can play video from an iPod ok?

Cheers Chris.

[2014GTi]

Hi all

Just had my Carbon Grey GTD delivered today.... Very exciting. I was interested to see they delivered the car with the MDI cable (not the red collar one I said I would need) and it was pointless anyway as the MDI port no longer exists. I was a BW50 car.

So all we have now is the USB port. I have tried an iPod touch (30 Pin cable), iPhone 4 and iPhone 5. All play music fine and the album art comes us. However when playing music videos or movies all you get is audio and no video. Now this is a real pain as I planned on leaving a 160Gb iPad Classic permanently hooked up with movies, music videos and all my music in the car.

I have popped a few movies on an SD card and they play fine, also transferred then to the juke box and they play fine.

Any ideas? Am I missing something or is playing any video from an Apple device just not going to work now we have USB only?

Am I right in saying you guys with the red collar MDI lead and MDI port can play video from an iPod ok?

Cheers Chris.

Hi Chris, yes I can play iTunes videos using the red MDI cable.
I didn't know you could copy Movies onto the SD card, what format did you copy them over in? 

[cl0nd0n]

Hi all

Just had my Carbon Grey GTD delivered today.... Very exciting. I was interested to see they delivered the car with the MDI cable (not the red collar one I said I would need) and it was pointless anyway as the MDI port no longer exists. I was a BW50 car.

So all we have now is the USB port. I have tried an iPod touch (30 Pin cable), iPhone 4 and iPhone 5. All play music fine and the album art comes us. However when playing music videos or movies all you get is audio and no video. Now this is a real pain as I planned on leaving a 160Gb iPad Classic permanently hooked up with movies, music videos and all my music in the car.

I have popped a few movies on an SD card and they play fine, also transferred then to the juke box and they play fine.

Any ideas? Am I missing something or is playing any video from an Apple device just not going to work now we have USB only?

Am I right in saying you guys with the red collar MDI lead and MDI port can play video from an iPod ok?

Cheers Chris.

Hi Chris, yes I can play iTunes videos using the red MDI cable.
I didn't know you could copy Movies onto the SD card, what format did you copy them over in? 

To be honest I just grabbed a couple of files from my iTunes movie library so they are all .mv4 Mpeg 4 files. Popped them on the SD card and they play fine. Just video from the iPod or iPhone I cant get to work...... Not happy! 

[lew321]

Hi all

Just had my Carbon Grey GTD delivered today.... Very exciting. I was interested to see they delivered the car with the MDI cable (not the red collar one I said I would need) and it was pointless anyway as the MDI port no longer exists. I was a BW50 car.

So all we have now is the USB port. I have tried an iPod touch (30 Pin cable), iPhone 4 and iPhone 5. All play music fine and the album art comes us. However when playing music videos or movies all you get is audio and no video. Now this is a real pain as I planned on leaving a 160Gb iPad Classic permanently hooked up with movies, music videos and all my music in the car.

I have popped a few movies on an SD card and they play fine, also transferred then to the juke box and they play fine.

Any ideas? Am I missing something or is playing any video from an Apple device just not going to work now we have USB only?

Am I right in saying you guys with the red collar MDI lead and MDI port can play video from an iPod ok?

Cheers Chris.

I'm finding the same problem. The USB doesn't seem to like video  Hope there is a way round it?

[cl0nd0n]

Hi all

Just had my Carbon Grey GTD delivered today.... Very exciting. I was interested to see they delivered the car with the MDI cable (not the red collar one I said I would need) and it was pointless anyway as the MDI port no longer exists. I was a BW50 car.

So all we have now is the USB port. I have tried an iPod touch (30 Pin cable), iPhone 4 and iPhone 5. All play music fine and the album art comes us. However when playing music videos or movies all you get is audio and no video. Now this is a real pain as I planned on leaving a 160Gb iPad Classic permanently hooked up with movies, music videos and all my music in the car.

I have popped a few movies on an SD card and they play fine, also transferred then to the juke box and they play fine.

Any ideas? Am I missing something or is playing any video from an Apple device just not going to work now we have USB only?

Am I right in saying you guys with the red collar MDI lead and MDI port can play video from an iPod ok?

Cheers Chris.

I'm finding the same problem. The USB doesn't seem to like video  Hope there is a way round it?

Been trying to get to the bottom of this one..... It seems from what I can find now we only have a USB port in the car the only way to play any video files is from DVD or from the SD card or files transferred to the Jukebox.

I found a note in the manual for the Discover Pro "Where this manual refers to external data media, this means USB mass storage devices containing supported files, such as MP3 players, iPods and USB sticks. Only supported audio files are displayed and played. Other files are ignored."

Not entirely true as I have found you can play a video file, say a music video from the video track lists folder on the iPod, however you only get Audio and no Video. So it does see them it just wont play them!

Has anyone else tried this yet?

[lew321]

Yep me too. I only get audio when trying to play a video file with the USB.

[kevinm]

I was at the dealers today and asked the parts guy to check what version of USB socket I have. The part number is 5G0 035 222 C which is different to the version D's the uk guys have. Mine will only charge the iphone but can play media from a usb stick or hard drive. It can also play video without problems.

Can someone with the ipod compatible USB confirm that they can use USB sticks/hard drives for music and video?

[Duroo72]

I have the black VW lightning cable with an iPhone5
When connected and selected the display says something like no selectable files.
Can the car only see files from iTunes as all my music is played from the Spotify app with the files downloaded for local use?

[kevinm]

I have the black VW lightning cable with an iPhone5
When connected and selected the display says something like no selectable files.
Can the car only see files from iTunes as all my music is played from the Spotify app with the files downloaded for local use?

Have you the USB socket or MDI?

[Mo_Nurk]

Quick question: Are there different collared iPhone 5 MDI leads? I can't get the video option to show up on my system. I'm assuming the standard system can play videos...