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Users / Re: Playing media of a USB flash drive

« on: November 13, 2009, 09:45:27 am »

Hi colinjones

Thanks for the reply and info. I'll try getting the USB flashdrive detected and working then. If I may suggest as someone new to LinuxMCE and therefore having an outside view, would it not be possible to treat removable media such as DVD's and flashdrives differently to media stored more permanently on the core or MD's? I say this because generally when using a flashdrive I would either know whats on it but the files may not be well named, or may even not know what's on it, and would therefore not know what to look for in the library.

Anyways, just a thought, I have no idea whether its feasible or not. Perhaps there is a way to view files from a single source? I'll look this evening.

Thanks again.

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Users / Playing media of a USB flash drive

« on: November 12, 2009, 02:51:36 pm »

Hi,

I'm trying to play media (either music or video files) off of a USB flash drive (ie plug in a flash drive with media on it and select a file to play). I'm not sure if I'm missing something, this question seems so simple. I've search this forum and Googled this. The same applies to playing media off of a data DVD (ie not a movie format DVD). The only way I can do this at the moment is to install VLC and access the flash drive from the Kubuntu GUI environment, which defeats the purpose of the awesome interface!

I have LinuxMCE 7.10 installed.

Thanks in advance.