Android TV - Playing Video from External HD
Sep 20, 2018 | 2:35 am
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Android TV - Playing Video from External HD
Just got an Android TV via my TV provider. How can I use my external hd to play video? I downloaded VLC but it only recognizes internal storage, not external.
The external hd is USB and NTFS. I'm not interested in re-formatting.
The external hd is USB and NTFS. I'm not interested in re-formatting.
Sep 20, 2018 | 6:00 pm
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Which Android TV device?
I'm guessing you want the Android TV connected directly to the hard drive? At home I use Universal Media Server on a Windows PC to play video on Android devices via DLNA with VLC as the player, but that wouldn't work unless you have an always-on PC to run UMS on.
You may be able to install a file explorer and browse to your hard drive, then play the videos that way. That's the method I use to play videos on my wife's tablet - copy video to an SD card then browse to it and open the files. Only in your case it wold be the HDD instead of an SD card.
I'm guessing you want the Android TV connected directly to the hard drive? At home I use Universal Media Server on a Windows PC to play video on Android devices via DLNA with VLC as the player, but that wouldn't work unless you have an always-on PC to run UMS on.
You may be able to install a file explorer and browse to your hard drive, then play the videos that way. That's the method I use to play videos on my wife's tablet - copy video to an SD card then browse to it and open the files. Only in your case it wold be the HDD instead of an SD card.