Playing Movies From an External Hard Drive

[BigALWV]

How do I play movies from an external hard drive?

[banhien]

Hi,

There are dozens of ways but we need to konw your existing hardwae and software. What are they ? What is the format of your movie files ?

Normally, you just plug your external HDD to your machine and use software player on your machine to play.

Regards.

[BigALWV]

On my past computer it came with Cyberlink PowerDvd 10.  That is how I was able to play movies from a hard drive.  I downloaded a version of Cyberlink PowerDvd  however it will not just play a movie but pull up clips or chapters and not the whole movie.  I just thought my HP Pavilion dv7 would come with some type of software that would play these automatically like my other program.

[banhien]

Hi,

From time to time and depending on how vendors work together, new machines can have these, can have those .... I don't use their bloatware to play videos but use a free nice, light, free product called VLC. You may want to try from here

  http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

Regards.