I bought an external hard drive so I could connect my library and play on projector outdoors but no success, I thought I could! Any ideas?
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If you mean hooking your computer to it I don't know [never went direct]. But I regularly hookup my laptop through my 3D player and use it as a large screen for internet and you tube with no problem.
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I don't think the projector has built in media playing software. I have my projector hooked up to my PC via hdmi cable. I don't think there's a way to directly play media from an external hard drive though.
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To be very honest with you I do not think the mini-usb port in back of the projector is for an external hard drive. I have several HD'S and none of them have a mini-usb-cable. ON page 9 of the owner's manual all it shows is the mini-usb cable to a lap-top. The usb button on the remote is non-working. A better bet would be to hook your external hard drive to a BD player w/a usb port or get a Western Digital media Center and you could connect your HD to the Media Center, either way your movies will be going through the HDMI cable which should give you a better picture than a straight usb cable to the projector.
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To be very honest with you I do not think the mini-usb port in back of the projector is for an external hard drive. I have several HD'S and none of them have a mini-usb-cable. ON page 9 of the owner's manual all it shows is the mini-usb cable to a lap-top. The usb button on the remote is non-working. A better bet would be to hook your external hard drive to a BD player w/a usb port or get a Western Digital media Center and you could connect your HD to the Media Center, either way your movies will be going through the HDMI cable which should give you a better picture than a straight usb cable to the projector. To be very honest with you I do not think the mini-usb port in back of the projector is for an external hard drive. I have several HD'S and none of them have a mini-usb-cable. ON page 9 of the owner's manual all it shows is the mini-usb cable to a lap-top. The usb button on the remote is non-working. A better bet would be to hook your external hard drive to a BD player w/a usb port or get a Western Digital media Center and you could connect your HD to the Media Center, either way your movies will be going through the HDMI cable which should give you a better picture than a straight usb... » Read More To be very honest with you I do not think the mini-usb port in back of the projector is for an external hard drive. I have several HD'S and none of them have a mini-usb-cable. ON page 9 of the owner's manual all it shows is the mini-usb cable to a lap-top. The usb button on the remote is non-working. A better bet would be to hook your external hard drive to a BD player w/a usb port or get a Western Digital media Center and you could connect your HD to the Media Center, either way your movies will be going through the HDMI cable which should give you a better picture than a straight usb cable to the projector. « Show Less
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I tried to play a USB with mine. I used a 8gb flash drive and tried to play a 1.6gb mp4 file and a 756mb mp4 file. Each time it said the file type was unsupported.
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Hi, are you using USB directly on the projector? If so, it should work fine. Cheers.
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you don't have to use an external DVD drive - sheesh! use Handbrake to convert or download an .avi/mp4 version of your movie and watch it via streaming network feed, off a USB thumbdrive, off your SSD, or off an SDHC
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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
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Hi, Pamela:This is exactly what I want to do, putting movies on a USB flash drive. Can you please tell me exactly how you did it? Thanks very much.My email is : syang1@cox.net
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While it could always be a defective device it could either be the hard drive you are using or your computer's settings related to "external media". Take the device and your hard drive to a different computer and try it. Then try the device with a different hard drive. But really for the cost of the thing you might as well toss it or give it away. There are several configurations of this concept and perhaps one of those will work. Most "towers" have the wires and a slot for an extra drive so perhaps you can put the drive into a tower.
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I purchased the cable through Amazon from AV House. Unfortunately, I came to the realization that the projector did not suit my needs after the time period when I could return the cable. I still have the cable if you are interested.
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What did you plug it into? If it was a laptop you just have to change your settings on your laptop to connect to a projector.
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No, I tried to do just that because I wanted to us it with my copy of Adobe On Location or to use my VCR or Disc play. None of this worked, I am still looking for what arrangement will allow me to use it successfully
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you need to download the projector's driver to your computer, so your laptop can recognize it, I just dont know where to find the driver, i want to know too.
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I am not very technical, so I am going to try the flash disk, but the information booklet says you can use an external USB drive or hard drive in PVR file format.
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You can install applications to the external hard drive. But you most likely run into issues. It is not recommended.
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No, external speakers cannot be connected, another downside to this projector. However, I ran coaxial cables from my BluRay player to my receiver and solved that.
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It's not possible to play directly through external HDD. You can play music only through flash memory card(sold separately)
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You are supposed to run the converter within the device, once it's connected to the computer. All the files you want the projector to read shall be processed first by the converter. Then, from there you save them into the device and they should work fine.
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I'm not sure if you can plug a external hard drive directly to the t.v., I usually connect my t.v. through my local network. For example I'll turn on my computer and have it set up through windows media player. Same thing with my music......