Cannot play media files

[Oakenholt]

Hi there. I have plugged in a external hard drive to play avi files and a message
'no displayable files on this medium found' comes up. Does the external
hard drive need to be mounted for it to be seen.

 

[angelofsky1980]

Hi there. I have plugged in a external hard drive to play avi files and a message
'no displayable files on this medium found' comes up. Does the external
hard drive need to be mounted for it to be seen.

I think you should mount / map your disk and next use Media Player to browse it and play multimedia files.

 

[Oakenholt]

I think you should mount / map your disk and next use Media Player to browse it and play multimedia files.

I have used media player. It see's the files but will not play them. The hard drive I am
using will not be left in the duo after playing a file so if it needs to be mapped were do I save it to.

 

[Oakenholt]

I have used media player. It see's the files but will not play them. The hard drive I am
using will not be left in the duo after playing a file so if it needs to be mapped were do I save it to.

Anybody have an idea were to mount a external hard drive to that will not be left in the stb.
I have tried media/hdd which is were my internal drive is mapped to and it will not save there.

 

[angelofsky1980]

Anybody have an idea were to mount a external hard drive to that will not be left in the stb.
I have tried media/hdd which is were my internal drive is mapped to and it will not save there.

If you have already mapped something into a mount point you cannot use it for another disk.
Use /media/usb or /media/video for second HDD.

 

[Oakenholt]

Mapped to media/video, rebooted stb. Can see external hdd in device manager
but media player does not see any files on external hdd.

 

[angelofsky1980]

Mapped to media/video, rebooted stb. Can see external hdd in device manager
but media player does not see any files on external hdd.

Ok one more step done: mapping and map present after reboot.
Next step: determine what kind of partition is used on your external disk

 

[Oakenholt]

the 'file system' is ntfs is this what you mean, does it need to be fat32 or fat.

 

[angelofsky1980]

the 'file system' is ntfs is this what you mean, does it need to be fat32 or fat.

In this Board there is a tutorial to explain the operations to be done to mount NTFS volumes.

 

[Oakenholt]

Dont suppose you have a link to this tutorial, cant seem to find it.

 

[Shiro]

It is a bad idea to mount a NTFS disk. The box is not Windows is Linux, so it is better to use a Linux formatted disk to have not problems.