Playing films on TV from my memory stick
My Samsung TV (LE37B550) has a USB port but will only play music and show photos. What's the cheapest way to get movies to play on my TV - I have a memory stick with many kids films on it. I have a blu ray player but that does not have a USB port.
I guess a blu ray upgrade may be the easiest option and if that's the case can anyone recommend a suitable one. If it can be bought in John Lewis then even better.
is there any other option? It seems a waste upgrading my perfectly usable Sony blu ray player!!
Any thoughts?
Pete
Playing films on TV from my memory stick
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fishman307
Create a folder on your USB stick and call it DCIM then put your movies in it, This fools TV or whatever it is a camera folder and will play the films,
If that works I'll eat a Christmas card.
Playing films on TV from my memory stick
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Originally Posted by
stooo
Raspberry Pi and openelec.
Good shout but you need to be a bit tech savvy.
Playing films on TV from my memory stick
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fishman307
I would use a drop of gravy on it LOL. Been doing it ages at first being very picky then found the samsung played most files doing it this way. Works for playing on Ipad with the camera cable attatched and usb stick plugged in, Though seem to remember they had to be certain file types MP4 ??? And titles show as a pic no.
USB stick needs to be in FAT32
I'm not rushing to get the gravy ready.
My guess is that these files are probably not MP4 and probably containerised in AVI or MKV.
It might work for a limited type of files (those which a camera may use) but for the stuff here I am considering my only Christmas card is safe.
just a note on the blueray option.....
...you have to be careful as all now carry cinavia copyright protection. This means that while DLNA streaming will work, you are limited by not being able to stream everything. If you need more info, google above term but I would highly recommend going a media streamer route to avoid issues.