Hi I just got an external hard drive and I put some movies on it so I can play them on my Acer Iconia A500 and it does not read it or it does and I cant find them.
So what men ???
Convert - avi-mpeg - divx or so what to -mpg 4 mobile video , take a look at your hard diskit had to be ; fat 32 to work on the tab .
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you can leave it as NTFS file system. Just root your device and use drive mount, to make the drive visible. I use a 1.5 TB external HD and it reads over 200 movies flawlessly. If you are using it for movies i would also grab mobo player and mizuu movies, great apps for movie watching and organization.
tnx man that worked out preatty good
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I am having problems with playing back anything that I have recorded on my mediacenter TV or film. I use NVIDIA_PureVideo_Decoder for watching on my mediacenter but would I need a special decoder that works with my O2 Exec I watch other films on my Exec with TCPMP and they work perfectly.
Any help would be appreciated
hiya, dot kow if this is any help to you but PC'a windows media player 10 and activesync should automatically syncronise any files in the ' my tv recordings folder' of your pc and convert them directly onto your pda upon syncronisation, for viewing. ( win media 10 auto converts it to a smaller size-as dvms files are usually gigs worth, space permitting.) i would know i do this everyday so i can watch tv on the way to work!videos take up a lot of disc space so to do so the only requirement is you have an sd card inserted with lots of disc space. each tv program takes around 100mb on your pda( for 30mins) ( alot better than 2gigs on the pc!) all the best. im using the nvidea encoder too works fine. my sd card is a 2gb ridata 2gb pro. works absolutely fine no stutter in playback eiither.
Hey gang going to be deploying for the rest of the year soon and would like to be able to hook up an external USB hard drive loaded with movies to my a500 and watch them on the tablet. My question is will an external USB drive even mount or read on android (never tried don't own one) and if so what format will I need movies in and what software would you guys recommend for DVD ripping.
Thanks in advance
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Btw, I'm rooted running Dexter 3.1 hc
Lucky for you, you bought the only tablet that will connect to a usb hd.
video foramts for the iconia are H.264 BP/MP/HP, MPEG-4, H.263
best dvd ripper I have no idea.
If you've already got HD vids, I suggest you download handbrake and download this setting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVBpeQNWbEQ and convert your videos that way.
As for DVD ripping you could do a search for ripit4me or something similar.
Thanks for the quick responses, looking up rippers now
I have a WD 1TB drive, NTFS formatted. The tablet will not see it without a little legwork, but the legwork is fairly easy.
Root it with Gingerbreak (since you're already rooted, that's for others that need the info), then install one of a couple different apps. Since mine is NTFS (large file support) I then installed NTFS Mount. I link up the drive, run NTFS Mount, pick the drive then click the mount button. In a couple moments I'm browsing the drive from the USB Storage link in my favorite file manager and movies galore.
As for file formats, it will also deal with AVI, DivX and other file formats by installing Mobo Player, which comes with additional codec packs to deal with other files types.
I've been using DVD Catalyst for all my ripping needs.
And since I'm a veteran and have seen my abundant share of deployments (1st Gulf War, 3 tours in Korea, etc), stay safe out there brother! OO-RAH!
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I have a WD 1TB drive, NTFS formatted. The tablet will not see it without a little legwork, but the legwork is fairly easy.
Root it with Gingerbreak (since you're already rooted, that's for others that need the info), then install one of a couple different apps. Since mine is NTFS (large file support) I then installed NTFS Mount. I link up the drive, run NTFS Mount, pick the drive then click the mount button. In a couple moments I'm browsing the drive from the USB Storage link in my favorite file manager and movies galore.
As for file formats, it will also deal with AVI, DivX and other file formats by installing Mobo Player, which comes with additional codec packs to deal with other files types.
I've been using DVD Catalyst for all my ripping needs.
And since I'm a veteran and have seen my abundant share of deployments (1st Gulf War, 3 tours in Korea, etc), stay safe out there brother! OO-RAH!
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Excellent advice! Thanks mate!
Ok... I got a 1TB WD "my passport" the USB 3.0/USB 2.0 one. I formatted it to fat32 with a utility from Verbatim. (find fat 32 formatter in google Verbatim worked for me) Once I got it formatted on my PC I copied the 2 or 300 videos/movies I have... Most of my videos are encoded in XVID or DIVX but I have WMV and MP4's too. When I first plugged it into the Acer it simply flashed and I thought it wasn't working but on the next try I let it flash until it finally stopped flashing (about 70 seconds) then I was able to browse the drive with file expert. I downloaded MOBO Player which will play about any file type that I throw at it... there is a file browser in MOBO Player that will let you find the file you want to play. This mind you, is all done without rooting or doing any thing difficult... formatting to fat32 has its drawbacks but at that time there wasn't any ntfs driver programs that I knew about.
Wish you well with this great tab!
edit: found this http://www.verbatim.com/index/support.php?lang_id=1&cat=9&action=downloads&pid=5411&aid=197
You can also try rockplayer, it can play virtually every kind of video file out there (certainly all the ones I tried), so you might save some time from converting them. Just keep in mind that to open file extensions not supported natively by android you have to go through rockplayer itself rather than a file explorer.
And just to add something small to timehunter's comment, if you use NTFS Mount (which is a great app and works with every hdd I tried), your hard disk will appear as "sda1". When you select it and click mount, it will be viewable under /mnt/sda1.
*Edit*: The new version in the market is called Drive Mount, not NTFS Mount. It is still free and still as good (and more). However, make sure you have busybox installed, as some root methods don't include it automatically, like the stock 3.1 root.
I've been using DVDFab for ripping and Handbrake for converting; the newer version of DVDFab's conversion tool wasn't at all stable the last time I checked it out (thankfully before paying for it, yay for trialware.)
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Where can I find ntfs mount? I can't find it at the market. Thanks
shaun298 said:
Where can I find ntfs mount? I can't find it at the market. Thanks
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Its now called drive mount
Sent from my Acer iconia a500 rooted running Dexter 3.1
just wanted to say thanks. Got a Seagate goflex 1 TB USB 2.0 drive at best buy for 99$, DVD catalyst 4 for 10$ from toolsformovies.com and it worked great. Ripped "Seven" using the predefined Xoom HQ2 1080p filter (output was in .mp4) took 2.5 hrs but looks excellent in moboplayer.
threedfreek said:
Ok... . I downloaded MOBO Player which will play about any file type that I throw at it... there is a file browser in MOBO Player that will let you find the file you want to play. This mind you, is all done without rooting or doing any thing difficult... formatting to fat32 has its drawbacks but at that time there wasn't any ntfs driver programs that I knew about.
Wish you well with this great tab!
edit: found this http://www.verbatim.com/index/support.php?lang_id=1&cat=9&action=downloads&pid=5411&aid=197
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+1 for moboplayer! I have a bunch of WMV v8 encoded files and before moboplayer I was staring in the face the need to transcode them all to some other codec. No need now!
And thank you for your service, Scott.
OK, am I the only guy who seems to have a problem with watching a movie that I transferred to my external 32gb microSD?
The weird thing here is I can watch the movie (.avi or .mp4 format) from my external 500gb drive.
I've used moboplayer and some other player and they won't open the file.
Why is it, I can watch them on 500gb drive but not my external microSD card?
Any suggestions?
try rockplayer, i don't have too much video on sdcard, but i can watch it only with rockplayer (or some other exotic video player that i don't remember).
in my case (.avi file from internet) the problem is codec-related, the stock video player can't play this .avi file.
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is rock player free?
i don't know!!!!! sorry!!!
maybe there is a lite free version? please check in the market (i try buy i'll see it linked on my phne/tablet and i see only "insalled"! also from pc browser!)
Mobo player... in settings change to software decoding
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sytech55 said:
OK, am I the only guy who seems to have a problem with watching a movie that I transferred to my external 32gb microSD?
The weird thing here is I can watch the movie (.avi or .mp4 format) from my external 500gb drive.
I've used moboplayer and some other player and they won't open the file.
Why is it, I can watch them on 500gb drive but not my external microSD card?
Any suggestions?
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Someone suggested me Dice player
There is also a free type
+1 for Mobo player worked for me. Converted my lord of the rings as a test using Handbrake and works fine.
The Rahl
Hi, I just bought the Iconia and I've been playing with its clear.fi app. It's not perfect, but nice for music, and I would like to use it for movies as well. Unfortunately, it won't show me any of the movies I have on my hard drive (.avi's and such, mostly whatever I have show with digital cameras), nor will the usb transfer let me send files over the wire. So what's going on?
I thought it was a format issue, but I've converted several avi's to mp4 and neither clear.fi, nor the usb connection would let me see them / transfer them, respectively.
thanks
oh, and just for clarity sake, i have a 501 and stock rom (for now)
Hi, as I understood using clear.fi or Acer movie you can play only DivX (MP4...) and H264 movies.
For a lot of other format try MX Videoplayer, it'free.
Download from market both the app and the armv7 codec.
thanks for that, but any idea why i can't transfer them via usb?
Sorry but I didn't understood your USB transfer problem...
I use astro to transfer from USB to internal memory with no problem.
i don't have a micro sd card so far, that's why i'm wondering why i can copy certain small size-files via the usb cable between the computer and the tablet, but i can not copy large ones. is there a limit imposed by the FAT/NTFS systems or..?
thanks
Ok, now it is more clear...
I have transferred from pc to tablet movies file bigger than 1gb but less than 2gb; the pc (win7) just warn me that the files could be not reproduced.
I don't know if tablet has limit like Fat32...
it finally worked with copy and paste, drag and drop wouldn't work. Avi and played flawlessly
Me too use copy and paste.
Enjoy your AVI files !
Ciao
I'm not sure why this is so difficult, or if I'm missing something entirely easy, but I have no idea what the problem is. I've got two videos on my 64 GB flash drive right now, one is an .mp4, one is .mkv. I have Stickmount pro, and I'm not sure if it's working properly.
As of now, my file explorers aren't showing anything on the USB drive (though they were earlier), however VLC will show the files and play them (sort of). The .mkv lags slightly (it's only 720p), and the .mp4 plays a few frames then stops changing frames. The .mp4 played just fine earlier on a different player, but that player doesn't handle .mkv's. MX Player isn't recognizing anything on the drive at all, even after I've added it to be scanned for media.
From what I can tell the flash drive and OTG cable are working fine, I'm just not sure how to proceed from here. I'm tempted to try NMI, but I don't want to buy another app for this if I don't need to since I already have stickmount.
You need to be rooted and have a custom ROM/Kernel.
You'll need this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1998585
Stickmount isn't needed. It probably hasn't been updated yet.
I am rooted, and the drive is FAT32 (if that matters). However, a custom ROM/kernel is 100% necessary? In that case, what will I have to do to play videos? Will the players and file managers not have issues reading the drive and playing them?
Try this, and look around on this forum for it's discussion thread.
Dont need to be rooted. Use nexus media importer and then chose which program to play videos with. I use a nightly build of vlc.
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I am rooted, and the drive is FAT32 (if that matters). However, a custom ROM/kernel is 100% necessary? In that case, what will I have to do to play videos? Will the players and file managers not have issues reading the drive and playing them?
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May need to be NTFS think i read that somewhere.
I'm rooted and I use stickmount.
This way I was able to play from a USB stick...
MPJ88 said:
Dont need to be rooted. Use nexus media importer and then chose which program to play videos with. I use a nightly build of vlc.
May need to be NTFS think i read that somewhere.
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Im not rooted and use one excellent piece of software called "Nexus Media Importer" I think it cost 1 or 2 quid !! But it is one excellent, hassle free way to use external storage. Its also clean to use. It is available on the play store.
I have successfully used it on:
Nexus 7
Nexus 10
SGS 3
OTG cable + 32GB storage!
and NO ROOTING required. Well worth it.
You can either copy to local storage OR stream !
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Nitemare3219 said:
I'm not sure why this is so difficult, or if I'm missing something entirely easy, but I have no idea what the problem is. I've got two videos on my 64 GB flash drive right now, one is an .mp4, one is .mkv. I have Stickmount pro, and I'm not sure if it's working properly.
As of now, my file explorers aren't showing anything on the USB drive (though they were earlier), however VLC will show the files and play them (sort of). The .mkv lags slightly (it's only 720p), and the .mp4 plays a few frames then stops changing frames. The .mp4 played just fine earlier on a different player, but that player doesn't handle .mkv's. MX Player isn't recognizing anything on the drive at all, even after I've added it to be scanned for media.
From what I can tell the flash drive and OTG cable are working fine, I'm just not sure how to proceed from here. I'm tempted to try NMI, but I don't want to buy another app for this if I don't need to since I already have stickmount.
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What I found was that I had to use ES File Explorer with Stick mount for the best results. Usually is use FX File Explorer, but I had to open the app THEN mount my drive for it to show anything on the drive.
As far as playing movies direct, your flash drive may not be quick enough. I usually move the movie to my device from my flash drive prior to playing it and delete when I'm done. This way I eliminate the speed issue.
You can also flash craiggomez's ROM and have native OTG support without need for stick mount. It actually works smoother than stickmount IMO.
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Blueback22 said:
What I found was that I had to use ES File Explorer with Stick mount for the best results. Usually is use FX File Explorer, but I had to open the app THEN mount my drive for it to show anything on the drive.
As far as playing movies direct, your flash drive may not be quick enough. I usually move the movie to my device from my flash drive prior to playing it and delete when I'm done. This way I eliminate the speed issue.
You can also flash craiggomez's ROM and have native OTG support without need for stick mount. It actually works smoother than stickmount IMO.
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I have a 16GB N10 and use a 1TB portable HDD to store all my movies... being 16GB it's not capable of holding some BR rips so I play them from the drive... There's no lag or stuttering at all so moving a file isn't needed unless, maybe, if the device being used is a USB 1 device. My HDD is USB 3, but I believe the OTG cables are 2 and the N10 may be 2 as well.
Also, as a note to the OP, keep in mind that you're limited by file size when using FAT32 so you won't be able to put videos on the drive that are high enough quality to really show off the N10 unless they're under 3GB (i think is the limit)
I formatted the drive to NTFS, however the file explorers and now VLC still do not show anything on the drive when using Stickmount. Decided to give NMI a try, and it worked flawlessly. MX Player streamed the 720p .mkv with audio (had to use s/w decoder for audio) without a problem.
Glad to here its working, should be able to use VLC too, i had to for 1080p.
Fat32 max file size is 4g (2^32). So you will Need NTFS for good quality .mkvs.
Youre only able to read files in NTFS AS far as there were no updates. But for streaming mkvs there shouldnt be a problem. The reading speed of i think every USB 2 stick is faster than 5mb/s so its Speer shohldnt be a Problem either. Also i read multiple times that there is no Problem streaming 1080p via otg. For me it Loks like a Hardware issue. At least i cant think of anything else starring At the working devices trying with the same setup
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