Is the receiver able to play video files through the USB port on the front (i.e. from a flash drive)? Or is it only capable of audio files? Thanks!
1277941
The front USB port is only capable of the playback of audio (music) files, either from USB storage or a portable device.
1277942
The unit is for another site and hasn't been installed yet. Sorry for no helpful info
1277943
The USB port on the front appears to accept only audio files. The complete receiver manual can be found at the following URL. ://www.intl.onkyo.com/downloads/manuals/pdf/tx-sr313_manual_e.pdf
1419023
I've only tested the USB port on it once, so I may be wrong, but I'm fairly sure you can only do a photo-slide show using a usb drive. Any video content has to come from an actual player of some sort (computer, DVD plater etc.). But like I said, I've only tried that once, so anyone else please correct me if I'm wrong :)
968649
this is just an extension no electronics involved ,if you can play music plugging your flash drive directly into isimple interface then .yes it will play.
1971680
You can play movies on it, but it is hard to figure out how to do this. Let me explain. I have a USB with 127 movie files on it. I plugged it in to this IVIEW and selected USB as the source. I got the first avi file to play, but I could not figure out to access its subtitles even though the srt file name was displayed. In order to read the remaining 126 files I had to stop the film and then select the USB again. The IVIEW displayed the USB folders much faster than any other player I own. I somehow managed to access a video_ts folder and got that film to play. Again no subtitles could be accessed. When I went back to access some other film files I could not remember what buttons I pushed to view the previous film. There are no instructions from IVIEW on how to use the remote control buttons to access the various video folders. Most of the remote control buttons seem totally useless to me. I pressed every button and it kept saying "feature not available at this time" or some other negative statement. There are many options offered on the right had side of the screen display, but none of these make the film file play on the TV. One would think that selecting the folder and then pressing the PLAY button would work. No it does not. The player seems to have a good brain software with terrible operating instructions and useless remote control. This player does well with avi and other files that are burned on to discs. For my USB film files I always use my Western Digital streamer [the disc menu features work best on the streamer] or my Philips 5990/5992 dvp.
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I don't think there's a way to stream video from a computer; pretty sure I have heard that from several sources, including the manual. The player just doesn't have software to do that. It seems (for video playback) to require discs that are finalized in DVD, BD or 'avchd' video format; it won't even play videos off the USB drive, which I'm rather disappointed about.
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Not sure if you can play the USB audio, I tried and couldn't "find" the file to play it after I plugged it in. You may be able to play the disc, I've never tried that option, but you won't have the words on the screen. I also use mine as my DVD player for movies, etc when not using for karaoke
917824
Hello. This unit will play .AVI video on the front LCD from either a DVD, USB flashdrive, or an SD card.
445573
You can play videos (plays MP4 and AVI only), but only from a card or USB stick attached directly to the frame. No video over the cloud.
1982743
no the receiver will not directly play a video file be nice if of could but the bean counters and lawyers has issues if copywrights. it will pass through most video created by a variety of sources such as comptuer tablet dvd ect. you could add unit to a network which should allow you the ability to play those files from several different sources
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The usb slot is only for connecting usb flash drives to the unit. If the USB flash drive has media that can be read; i.e., a standard dvd structure, mpeg4s, mp3s, cds, or jpegs then the unit will play the media. Here is a link to the user's manual for more information: http://s3.amazonaws.com/szmanuals/11333ba7d45d5f0d5256a1e945fa457b
841946
So you can have an external drive? I don't see why not. There is a mini USB port on the player.It will play mp4's sequentially, the same with pics and music. It may have plug and play capabilities... TommyD
856671
Yes, this unit has a USB port on the side; description in the manual is as follows: "DVD playback condition for disc playback/USB/SD switch button". It can play Mp3 and MP4 files. It supports USB and SD/MMC. In the manual is the following: "Support MP4, MP3, WMA, MPG, AVI, VOB, DIVX, JPEG formats."
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it plays everything more formats than any player i have ever had. AVI XVID DIVx these files play seamlessly from the USB drive cant wait to try my MASS USB drive (I have a 300 GB)... pictures are slow it doesnt do jpeg's imo. it is so slow i wouldnt use it for that. but every other feature works great. only upscales if you are able to use the HDMI
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I haven't tried that yet, but will ask my husband to do it tonight if he has a wall adaptor and then let you know. It won't play MP4's though, only MP3.
1641682
Yeah, it has a AV output - I tried with a cable I had but couldn't get it to work right with the video and have stereo audio, it seemed to only have mono with video; If you just want to occasionally use this feature this isn't a bad player, if this is something you want to regularly do, I would suggest finding another.
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It does play music from a USB Jump Drive or an External Hard Drive. That is the purpose of the USB port. You may want to check what format the jump drive is formatted in and make sure that it will work with the player. It may take either fat32 or NTFS format, but I am sure that it takes NTFS. Also, it only plays MP3 files.
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I bought 2 from a car stereo store and tried to play videos from both. When it didn't work I did some research and learned they will only show pictures from the SD and USB. huge bummer. manual says: USB supports: MP3 and JPEG files only and will NOT support: BMP, M4P, WAV, ASF, H.264, DivX, WMA.