Choosing a USB Flash Drive for a DVD Player

Question

USB

Good evening.
I have an old ORION DVD-837 DVD player at home , on which my wife and I enjoy watching TV shows and movies. From my flash drive, the player normally reads video files up to 1 GB in size (we mostly watch ~ 700 MB movies), while a standard 1.4 GB movie starts to "slow down" in the middle of the movie. I didn’t bother much about this, because. assumed that the old man simply does not pull large files, but recently he took a flash drive with a movie (1.4 GB in size) from a friend, tried to run it on DVD and noticed that the movie did not slow down at all and played normally.
At first I thought that my friend's flash drive was faster than mine, but tests showed the opposite.

My flash drive was tested first

Actually, the question is for those who know: can a lower data transfer rate have a beneficial effect on video playback, and which flash drive would you recommend using on a DVD player?

Answer 1

IMHO it can't depend on speed reduction in any way.
Most likely, the matter is in films - for example, friend's films were encoded in mpeg4, and yours - in h264, and the player “choked” with them. Moreover, judging by the size of the files, the bitrate was not very large.
For the purity of the experiment, check on the same film.