If I store a movie in the library will I be able to play it from the sync on my iPhone as I now can with movies stored on real cloud ?
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I am not familiar with real cloud, but my experience was so dissapointing I did not explore all features. I needed to allow non tech savy clients access to download very large files and the sync interface was not as simple as some of the cloud based solutions or my Pogo Plug. This may work for you, but it can't for me.
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My husband has transferred DVDs to our iPhone and iPad. I don't know exactly how he did it, but it can be done. Maybe through a cloud? That would be my guess. Alright, he said he used some type of software.
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In my experience, the answer is YES, thanks to an undocumented feature. The Media Drive with v2.9 firmware supports FTP. If your video player supports FTP, you should be able to connect to the Media Drive as an FTP server. I've had success viewing avi and mkv files using nPlayer on my iPhone. Streaming might be an issue with some media apps. I couldn't get VLC for iOS to stream successfully from the Media Drive over FTP, but could first download the movie to iPhone and then watch it.
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Yes. I assume you mean I Tunes or something like that. You would download the software from their site to your computer. The Cloud is an internet based server that holds information or songs or movies, whatever. You login from the internet to gain access to the cloud.
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Yes. You can download anything on the device to your phone. But playing it directly from the device also works perfectly fine with no buffering issues.
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Thanks for the response. It only solves the songs part, not the movie part due to the heavy delay. But I'd think the only way to synchronize sound and movie using Air Tunes would be to delay the movie playback.
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The limits of what files can be read is dependant on the device doing the reading. RAW files will go on the drive just fine, but I don't believe there is a native way for iPhone to read or import them, without jailbreaking the device.
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I returned my device .. it actually did not work at all. However, I think you can transfer pretty much any file, as a download, the question is, can a MKV file even be played by a player on an iPad? I think there is a version of VLC for the iPad, and the PC version of VLC plays MKV files. I wish I knew more, but the device did not work for me ...
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Apple TV does stream music from the cloud. We just got an apple TV for Christmas and it works great!
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Not to Amazon Cloud Player. They used to let you upload mp3s to the cloud but they disabled the feature. (following the lead of mac/itunes to keep eveything proprietary) it's bs...but one workaround I figured is to use google drive to upload your music and there is a nice little app called gdrive (an additional app) that makes it easy to move mp3s to/from the cloud, it also has its own music player. The scam here is to force you RE-buy music you already own in order to listen to it on the go. don't let amazon or mac do this to you.
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ITunes stores these as M4V files (movies) - how do you use the wifi to play them on your ipad? Can this alone let you stream movies or do you need another software to stream or do you have to convert out of the MPEG-4 Video File (.m4v) format to another to stream movies?I think some people are buying these to expand the otherwise fixed memory of an ipad so if you can't stream this is not going to work for us.
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I've been able to play movies from the store. As long as your iPod, iPad, or iPhone can play it you are good.
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It overwrites old video - if need be, copy files to your computer. As far as iPhone, sorry but I have never tried it
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Hi, I have used this device to stream MP4 and M4V to my iPad, iPhone etc. in the interface on your computer you are able to play files from this device by streaming or just plugging it in by USB. I did have DRM issues when trying to play a video purchased outside of iTunes in another player other than iTunes, however. Those I could only get to play by transferring through the iTunes interface.
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Hi Joel, I was looking to do the same thing and the My Cloud has been a great solution. Would recommend that if you're going to move massive amounts of music to your My Cloud then you do it from a computer that has a Ethernet connection to your home network vice a wireless connection....it's way faster that way. Hope that helps
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If you are using it to download music or play music you've stored in the cloud you will need an internet connection. If you are simply using it as a media player I believe you can use it without an internet connection. To be honest I've found it to be rather bulky and kind've clumsy so I've only used it to download music and then uninstalled the app
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Yes you can. As long as it is in a supported format that iTunes or quicktime player can play. Converters for this can be found through google most are free.