Why wont it play videos straight from the drive? I have to move them back to my computer to watch them or use them.
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If you are using an older machine that does not have USB 3.0 support the slower transfer rate can cause an issues such as this and there is no fix. If you are using a USB 3.0 port make sure your motherboard drivers and bois settings are up to date. After trying all this if the drive continues not to perform to your expectations I would exchange it for a different one.
817426
Looks like the drive is set up to go to "sleep" after a period of time. That affects a lot of operations, and there's no direct fix for it.
1961665
Wade, have you tried just loading the SD card after you have got video or photos on it to the computer? I do that instead of putting what is on the disc on computer. I get the videos and photos that way. Mine works awesome that way. I hope I explained that right.
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The drive seems to be protected against taking any other content, and there's no way to move content from the drive to a friendlier one where purchased movies (from any source) could be stored.. Tell me if I'm wrong. Basically, the bulk of the drive is wasted space.
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I am having issues also. WMP doesn't recognize the files, KMPlayer plays audio and video but they are out of sync (video is too slow), Quicktime plays audio and video but the video is "jerky" and not as smooth as it should be, VLC was only playing the audio. I'm running out of things to try. -_-
383182
Hi,Bot With This box, I Have Only Been Able To Play Media From My drives.Sorry
501215
Are they cd's or dvd's? Either one should play. I'm using Windows XP and have used the drive for both.
222834
I have not had any success playing video files from my PC, however I have not spent much time trying.
958682
Of course you can play any AVI directly from an USB pen drive... works perfect!!!I only have a doubt, have anyone tried to play any AVI from a portable Hard disk (USB 2.0) ?
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not exactly. It will only play items in the current folder that is open if you choose to open a folder rather than choose to play by either music or movies. IE: From the main menu you can choose movies, music, photos or folder. If you choose movies, it will play all the movie type filess on your drive one after the other (avi, mpeg, mkv etc.) If you choose music, it will play all the music type files (mp3, wav, wma, etc.) if you choose folder, it will play all the file types shown in that folder, but will not play anything in a sub folder.
958683
Does anyone know if you can play avi files (divx, xvid) from a USB thumb drive plugged into the front? The description just lists photos for the USB drive.
1482804
I think that you have to format it which will delete the files get your videos off to a flash drive or computer and try formating it
487145
It's a great drive but doesn't come with software other than the built in drivers. Check if you have a media player with your os and if not (windows 8) you can download some decent free software or buy some.
1032036
I don't know. I use a seagate movie player to access my movies. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.
909591
It won't play blue ray files as they come in blue ray discs. They need to be remuxed or converted to Mkv or Avi. You should be able to plug your 2TB drive.
856341
I don't know what you mean. Specifically what are you trying to do? I have videos on my computer (Windows 7) and can watch them without a problem but they were orginally downloaded on a Windows XP machine and then transferred when I bought a new computer.
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I don't download videos to mine, only use it to play speaker type cd's I copied to it while I am driving. Only problem I seem to have with it is it won't, and never did turn off. That button does not seem to work so I have to keep it plugged to my computer whenever I am not using it. Sorry.
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You must have some type of video playback software on your computer...I know it works with Windows 7 and Microsoft's Mediaplayer or similar software.