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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
v/r
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!
timehunter said:
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.
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
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
Thanks to this forum, I was able to find my Samsung Galaxy Hub downloaded movies and move them to the external SD card. Thank you for that!
I've searched the web (and this site) for a way to convert pyv to mp4 or any other format that I can burn to a DVD and watch on tv or at least watch on the 27" desktop monitor. Anyone know of a way to do this?
Thanks,
Monica
To my understanding, the movies lic, is tied to the device you download them, unless a program breaks the security on the movie it won't be possible to rip them.
Now you could try to stream them to your tv.
I like the nVidia shield TV.
But now it has happened, my visit had brought a BluRay.
Since asked myself the question whether it is possible to connect a BD drive to the shield TV and play movies?
That would be very awesome, if that were possible. Can you help me there possibly more?
Yes and no. You will probably need to find or write your own drivers, and compile your own software low level, possibly down to kernel depending on what the shield supports. On top of that, it's going to be a dificult process getting it to play once you simply have it mounted. Here is an example of someone getting a TVT drive to work on a transformer, then an update removed this ability even, and that's just a DVD player. (Check the rest of the thread)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=29383430&postcount=4
These are streaming devices, and optical media is dying as much as the stores try to tell you it's not. I highly suggest ripping your own media assuming the legality in your country and setting up a media streaming box or use your home PC if it'll handle it. Google, nor other box companies, are likely to try to add support as it's extra bloat to many, and on top of that, many that own movies will buy a digital copy if they want it and can't/won't rip their own media. If you can get a gathering of people who want it, and some good programmers who see a need, you may get support via custom software, but I would'nt hold your breath. If I can answer any more questions, or you would like something more clear, please let me know. Hope you enjoy your shield!
TLDR: Not now, and not likely. Sorry.
I gotta ask, why bother? BR owners generally fall into two categories - people with BR players and the tiny minority like me that rip movies to a server and stream the movies. Which ever method you were using before you got a nSATV will still work now. Most likely that means leaving your BR player (stand alone, PS3, whatever) hooked up to a different HDMI port. Moving forward, I agree with kdb424 - rip your movies and stream them. This could be a full Plex server setup, or something as simple as a network share + Kodi.
I have a hard time saying "just buy all your new movies from a streaming source" because I personally will not do that until Amazon Instant video is officially supported on Android TV, including the nSATV. The reasons are simple, I'm already a Prime member just for the shipping deals so many of the movies I would otherwise possibly buy are free, it's supported by every device I use other than nSATV, and I want all my purchased shows/movies to be from a single source.
I can understand that it really is not worth the effort.
However, with my friends, it is still generally the rule that they have and bring DVDs or Blurays.
You can rent them also for very little money, in video stores.
It would be easy to offer only to have a single device, with which I can play everything.
I have connected to the test a BD drive to the "shield TV" and can choose to be mounted the disc. The drive will be recognized as a memory.
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bega said:
I can understand that it really is not worth the effort.
However, with my friends, it is still generally the rule that they have and bring DVDs or Blurays.
You can rent them also for very little money, in video stores.
It would be easy to offer only to have a single device, with which I can play everything.
I have connected to the test a BD drive to the "shield TV" and can choose to be mounted the disc. The drive will be recognized as a memory.
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So you are saying that you could get it to mount? If so you should be able to play it with Kodi or VLC (I recommend kodi) as it has disk support, but I haven't heard of anyone getting optical mediums of any sort working with android well. Hoping you have solved it.
I can see under Storage in the settings the drive but can not mount.
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I think no player can read br format yet. Only licenced ones like power DVD and stuff like that can. You better download a mkv bd rip under 4gb (or rip yourself) and put it on a fat 32 micro sd or USB hdd or thumb drive. Then read it with vlc,kodi or the mkv/mp4 player of your choice.I guess it is the only way.
Or directly download from the shield itself if you can.
bega said:
I can understand that it really is not worth the effort.
However, with my friends, it is still generally the rule that they have and bring DVDs or Blurays.
You can rent them also for very little money, in video stores.
It would be easy to offer only to have a single device, with which I can play everything.
I have connected to the test a BD drive to the "shield TV" and can choose to be mounted the disc. The drive will be recognized as a memory.
Not more. [emoji4]
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Bega, can you try to play a dvd or music cd through kodi on the shield?
No. If i click to mount the "USB Storage", it goes back to the screen before and show that the " USB storage is unmounted and can safely removed"
At kodi i can´t the the storage.
Yes it can be done only by mount the Bluray drive on the network instead of the USB route,
Then use Xbmc search for mounted d drive connect and play away, I use the vidonxbmc version with the beast version loaded onto of vidonxbmc so I can play back Bluray menu support so far it works flawlessly u can mount a bunch of virtual drives if u have ISO as well
This is on my shield TV.
This person seems to have a player/drive that works. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=63104740&postcount=12
bradleyw801 said:
This person seems to have a player/drive that works. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=63104740&postcount=12
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Well yes it works for DVDs and MP4 but blueray codecs are licensed and not supported yet from open source players (vlc,kodi,plex...)
Yes but maybe no.
I know there is an (As seen on TV) Digiland tablet with a built-in DVD player, and there is an app on the tablet which plays the DVDs. So it's differently possible to watch DVD on an android device, and since Android TV is based on Regular Android, so it's possible to use any android app, but I tried searching "digiland dvd app "apk"", it just took me to the apks for FRP Bypass. If you happen to come across an apk, try using an external DVD player, you said Blu-Ray though. I mean, I did not look for a way to get Blu-rays working yet,
but I know that Blu-ray discs come with a DVD version, but 4K UHD Blu-ray discs don't come with DVDs. Yes, I get how nobody likes the 480p DVD video, but I am still searching for something that will work with Blu-ray and UHD Blu-ray.
Link to the Digiland DVD Tablet combo on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/DigiLand-Portable-10-1-Inch-Touchscreen-Quad-Core/dp/B07JM892ZL