Comments on: How to watch movies from an external drive on your iPad with iPadOS https://appletoolbox.com/how-to-watch-movies-from-an-external-drive-on-your-ipad-with-ipados/ Tools and Fixes for Mac, iPad, iPhone & iWatch Tue, 15 Feb 2022 01:18:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 By: Hines Figher https://appletoolbox.com/how-to-watch-movies-from-an-external-drive-on-your-ipad-with-ipados/#comment-1590958 Tue, 15 Feb 2022 01:18:06 +0000 https://appletoolbox.com/?p=77270#comment-1590958 Possibly off-topic? As this article is mostly about iPads, but on my iPhone:
I can play music videos one at a time from usb with the VLC app, but cannot play playlists (stored as folders on the PC version). I can import playlists to the phone via wifi which do play, but the phone quickly runs out of space. Searched all over the web without an answer.

]]> By: Dave https://appletoolbox.com/how-to-watch-movies-from-an-external-drive-on-your-ipad-with-ipados/#comment-1566438 Sat, 10 Apr 2021 04:28:01 +0000 https://appletoolbox.com/?p=77270#comment-1566438 I have a Samsung T7 with movies in MP4 format. I downloaded the GoodReader App onto my iPad Pro. I plug the T7 into the USB-C port. Open Files on my iPad. Select the movies I want move. Select GoodReader in Files, then select copy in the top right corner of Files.

The movies copy to GoodReader. Open GoodReader double click the movie you want to watch. It works great.

]]> By: Pedro https://appletoolbox.com/how-to-watch-movies-from-an-external-drive-on-your-ipad-with-ipados/#comment-1496926 Sat, 05 Sep 2020 19:36:44 +0000 https://appletoolbox.com/?p=77270#comment-1496926 Thanks you for this. Amazing content and well explained.
But, any chance of using subtitles? Looking for using a srt file to sync it with the video while having separate files. I have them on the same folder, subtitles in settings active, tried several apps and nothing seemed to work. Any hint on your side?

Thank you

]]> By: Sandra https://appletoolbox.com/how-to-watch-movies-from-an-external-drive-on-your-ipad-with-ipados/#comment-1474803 Wed, 01 Apr 2020 17:24:57 +0000 https://appletoolbox.com/?p=77270#comment-1474803 In reply to Todd.

That’s my goal also just to my iPad

]]> By: Todd https://appletoolbox.com/how-to-watch-movies-from-an-external-drive-on-your-ipad-with-ipados/#comment-1473794 Tue, 24 Mar 2020 20:32:07 +0000 https://appletoolbox.com/?p=77270#comment-1473794 Hello! I hope you are staying well during this difficult time.

I have not yet purchased a flash drive for my iPhone because i am getting mixed results in my research. I’m hoping you can help.

My goal is to take movies that were mostly acquired as digital copies from blu ray purchases, load them on the drive, and watch them from my iPhone or iPad mini.

I’d like to be able to view them directly from the drive to save space on my iPhone. Is there a reasonably simple solution for this? Any info you ca provide will be much appreciated.

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