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Playing media from USB mass storage device

  • 28-02-2007 1:16am
    #1
    Brianb8802
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 488 ✭✭


    Has anybody got their 360 to play videos or music from a USB mass storage device, like a flash drive or a external hard drive.

    It says on the xbox site that it should work once plugged into one of the usb drives on the front of the xbox,(i didnt even know there was usb ports on the front til i read it online:o) but i cant get the xbox to even recognise that the drive is connected. Ive tried two different external hard drives

    Any of you guys got this working properally


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  • #2
    0ubliette
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭0ubliette


    are you online with your xbox? If not youll need to get the latest update. After that it should recognise most USB flash disks. I palyed a few videos off a 256mb usb key before, its pretty simple to do.


  • #3
    Kanney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 888 ✭✭✭Kanney


    Do movies have to be converted to a certain file type? Like Mp4 for Ipod/PSP.


  • #4
    Fingleberries
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,393 ✭✭✭Fingleberries


    Yep - it the Xbox only handles Windows Media formats natively ... WMA / WMV and possibly ASF.

    It doesn't do AVI, MPEG or DivX formats.


  • #5
    Brianb8802
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 488 ✭✭Brianb8802


    Ok i got the flash drive working, played a movie off it just a while ago. But i still cant get the xbox to recognise my external drive. Any ideas?

    BTW i have the latest updates for xbox live


  • #6
    savemejebus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,568 ✭✭✭savemejebus


    hdd could possibly need to be formatted to fat 32


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  • #7
    mik_da_man
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 9,953 ✭✭✭mik_da_man


    I dunno sorry - my 250GB Seagate Ext drive works fine.
    What type of drive do you have? - shouldn't make a difference though.
    Maybe the format type?
    Is is NTFS of FAT32?


  • #8
    mik_da_man
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 9,953 ✭✭✭mik_da_man


    savemejebus wrote:
    hdd could possibly need to be formatted to fat 32

    Got there just before me :p


  • #9
    Brianb8802
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 488 ✭✭Brianb8802


    savemejebus wrote:
    hdd could possibly need to be formatted to fat 32


    Ah crap, my hard drives are nfts formatted. Guess its a no go for me so. Woulda been handy to watch movies off the hd.

    On aside, why do ye guys have your external hd formatted in fat32, doesnt that limit you to a 4gb file size?


  • #10
    savemejebus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,568 ✭✭✭savemejebus


    I use my external hdd on mac and linux systems so it made sense for me to use Fat 32. 4gb isn't the max size though, I can't remember which is but i think i've 2 x 60gb fat 32 partitions and a 30 gb ntfs on my external.


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