How To Watch Movies On Xbox 360 From External Hard Drive

A short demonstration to show you how to watch videos on your xbox 360 via a usb storage device your usb thumb drive or external hard drive must be formatted.

How to watch movies on xbox 360 from external hard drive. If you ve got a usb stick formatted in fat32 that will work but the videos will need to be in the correct format container to be seen by the 360 and have proper video and audio codecs to work right. In the media menu under music i can play mp3 files from the external hard drive but i cant play the movies. When i connect my movie filled iomego e go hard drive to my xbox 360 via usb my xbox doesn t even recognize it.

For the most part if the movies extension is mp4 or avi it should play. Get a usb jump drive or portable hard drive. Put your movies onto it and plug it into your xbox 360.

Using an external hard drive to watch a movie with my xbox 360 problem i have seen in the past an external hard drive connected via usb used to watch movies using the xbox 360.