Will the ASUS Cube V2 connect to &amp; play the ripped movies and video's I have on my Network Attached Storage Drive? (much like the old Boxee Box does)
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No. It won't play anything that is not served up by a select set of play store aps. Honestly, hold out for abdroid tv, or get one of the small dongkes for 50 bucks. It really is a terrible product
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I'll plug in my external hard drive and see. My only concern would be the slower USB 2.0 port. I have a 3 terabyte drive inside the AIOS and I play Blu-ray iso files all the time. I'll rip a disk to folders instead and put it on the portable drive that will connect via the front USB port. I'm copying a set of Blu-ray files to the player today, so I'll see how well it works versus .iso.
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Of course you can play any AVI directly from an USB pen drive... works perfect!!!I only have a doubt, have anyone tried to play any AVI from a portable Hard disk (USB 2.0) ?
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By "box" I assume you mean wireless router. All computers using a wired or wireless router will see this Network Attached Storage device.No other software is needed for computers to link to the Buffalo Linkstation. Tablets and Smartphone my need additional apps. Buffalo has apps for Android and iPhone, iPad.For the novice, the CD that comes with the Buffalo Linkstation should be installed to help get the storage device up and running.
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HEY FRANK: Dont think you are crazy. Adobe pulled its support for Amazon Unbox videos and the like. So, you simply wont be able to play your videos over your Asus until Amazon finds a way to patch or come up with a ew system of allowing people like you and I to watch the videos we have purchased. It licks balls because if you cant watch movies over it, whats the point, right? I have been assured that Amazon is working on this and will have a fix sooner than later. Until then, I either just watch stuff on Hulu or Youtube or, watch the stuff you have on Amazon at home over your Toshiba like I do.
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Just got this in the mail recently and I have to say that it is excellent in terms of its ability to play internet video (though for some reason it takes the LQ stream on youtube on occasion), and does well with paid streaming services - it does not have support for videos on NAS or USB
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IThat'd the model I used it with. While it works, the external video only worked a prin of the time. It was so finicky that I abandoned this and more just use a usb hub with network adapter and hdmi to monitor. Cheaper solution that works all the time.
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Yes it does run latest codecs and container formats but I have seen my (completely stock) freeze and had to be power cycled after and oddly encoded avi which I never found out what The actual video format was. Anyways I use it daily to play videos from all over and it runs great. Works exceptionally well with a plex server and Vimu or just the plex app. Vimu is better for local content in my opinion while plex app is great for ice films and 1 channel like xbmc which I don't believe runs on this box yet.
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It's just a streamer for your storage. If your device can play .mov files, you should be fine.
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I just bought the zen x-fi 8gb and it was VERY simple to transfer amazon unbox videos to it by using the unbox program. They work great. I have NOT tried it with the video rentals that Amazon offers, just the ones you buy or the free ones.
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yes, not only that but it connects via wifi or ethernet to tons of apps like netflix hulu etc. it will also download dvd box art for each title in your library automatically... very pleased with this product! just make sure your movies are named properly for example: if you own "The Avengers" it needs to have "the" in the beginning etc for the artwork to download
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It works fine.I just hooked up a USB hard drive to my Acer Chromebook and it can navigate all the files and folders.I played an MP4 video file and an MP3 video file which both opened in the Media Player app.I've read it will play anything that Flash / Chrome will play.I don't think it will play offline avi's but I'm not sure.
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Yes, but I got some trouble with video being corrupted. It might be my copy. Worked perfect for loading photos. Plug and play.
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You can view the video over your local area network (thru a computer on your LAN) but if you were hoping to plug a VGA or HDMI cable into the box, it will not display the video feed. Also, if you get this device, make sure to look on ubiquiti's website and learn how to update the software. It's easy, you just need to SSH into the box and run some commands.
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Hi C. Nunez, I will play a Japanese movie I just got with SRT file subtitles and I'll let you know the results. The alternative to this media box is a DLNA app on your computer (to play on your big screen) and I don't see advantage of DLNA over this WD box. I used TV MOBILI as a DLNA for months until they wanted money for going over 10 GB. This little box did the trick and even my nine year old son can run it.
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You can play videos (plays MP4 and AVI only), but only from a card or USB stick attached directly to the frame. No video over the cloud.
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Zhi:Thanks for all your great explanations.Maybe S.Pachella knows how to put both the pc and netbook on the same network, but I don't. Could you explain? Linking a pc w/DVD to the netbook seems like such a perfect approach. Thx.Gayle