can you play encrypted video files directly from the drive?
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I didn't buy a 16 GB Kingston from Amazon, but I understandone thing or two about them. You can play videos directlyfrom the pendrive since you've been logged to the securityarea. Kingston Datatravelers has got two formated areas,One of them is protected and thus you will have to performa logon.
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It is like any other drive, except you must enter a password when you first access it.
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Yes, once I loaded the photos and video on the computer it played the video fine without any downloading anything special. I use Windows 8
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Hi Bruce, if your network hard-drive have a DLNA feature, yes you can play your vdeos e photos remotely. There a lot of APP with DLNA feature.
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Getting videos out of a DVR is beyond me. I rip my own DVDs with mplayer / mencoder and put them on my zen. mencoder is a command line tool for linux. it seems really daunting, but once you've figured it out and set up an alias or two for it, it's just a few short keystrokes away from ripping a dvd into a .avi file you can play on the zen.
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I haven't tried that yet, but will ask my husband to do it tonight if he has a wall adaptor and then let you know. It won't play MP4's though, only MP3.
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Yes. You can encrypt the data on the drive. The Synology website has a step-by-step tutorial on the process: https://www.synology.com/en-global/knowledgebase/tutorials/455
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I think it can if the files are renamed/formatted before playing. So I do not think it can read MP4 files as they are.
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In theory, yes, you could, but I found two problems: only plays files in mp4 format, so you must convert any file to this;and that's the second problem, the conversion takes a loooong time, as a day per file. My advice, avoid this unit like the plague.
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All I can say is that I have been able to play .mp4 720p files without any problem. I don't know what other formats will work.
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The short answer is no. The files are encrypted & locked to the specific receiver so they can't be copied. The longer answer is yes, but not exactly what you're thinking. If you have a video capture device, you could play them back and capture them as video files on a computer. There are a few video capture devices that have component input and can do this. It can't be done via any HDMI device I've seen because it would violate the copy protection rules of HDMI. Down side is you have to play the shows back to transfer them to computer via the capture device. There is no other way. Slow, cumbersome, & you can't watch anything else while playing the shows back to capture them as PC files. Yes you could do it, but its not worth the time, effort, & expense.
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I've sucessfully done that with my 128GB Patriot drive. Just be sure that the video format of the files on the drive is supported by the TV you have.
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Sorry I do not know if it plays mp4 video files as I have never tried doing that myself.
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I'm not sure if you can plug an External USB device and play the files, you could however share your DVD/BluRay drive on your computer and play the files over the newtork (wired gigabit connection to be stable). It will play bluray/dvd iso or raw files. I bought a few 4TB externals and just created ISO files out of my blurays so I don't have to get up and get the disc, I can just select them from a list and play them.
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It is able to read play most any video, image or music file directly from a windows shared directly, including those NTFS drives. Is also DLNA compatible. Love mine.
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for CCS encrypted discs it will not upconvert over component. If you take a look over at videohelp.com you will find that there are 3rd party softwares that will allow this upconversion to happen.
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I'm sure you can, as I have a 64gb thumb drive with movies that we access through the file system and watch on our tv.
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I have not tried to do that yet, but from what I've read you should be able to play it directly from the Sd card