Hi, ever since my Android TV updated to Oreo, all my usual apps (i.e. MX Player, VLC player) have been unable to view video files stored on my NTFS usb drive.
Any alternative apps/methods to workaround this?
Hi, ever since my Android TV updated to Oreo, all my usual apps (i.e. MX Player, VLC player) have been unable to view video files stored on my NTFS usb drive.
Any alternative apps/methods to workaround this?
Kodi should handle it, but then again so should VLC.
Can you view contents of your external drive via a file explorer (i.e. ES or X-plorer)? If not, there is not much you can do about this - any media player will rely on the OS to acesss drives. It has nothing to do with codecs.
Try Archos Media Player.
This NTFS issue nearly always pops up with the Android TV Oreo OS update.
- early Oreo Firmware on the Mi Box had the same issue (since fixed I believe)
- the Oreo Mecool KM8 device still has that issue, it's never been fixed on that unsupported device.
Sony need to fix the NTFS problem. Report it to them.
Android has trouble with NTFS, mainly because Android is Linux based but most Android kernels are older where support wasn't as robust as it is now. You should try formatting to FAT32 if possible.
If you plug it into your network (USB 3.0 on a router for example) X-plore will read the network drive provided it uses SMB (a few other protocols work as well). From there you can open it with the built in viewer or VLC.
Tried both Kodi and Vlc. Doesn't work either. Can't see any files at all.
Is your tv a tcl tv ?
I am facing the same issue with my VU Android TV. Contents of NTFS HDD are showing in the TV's default MEDIA APP, but not showing in MXPlayer, VLCPlayer, FileXplorers. Any solution found? Please share
Kodi is pretty great. It has every codec I can think of and I never have issues playing video.