How To Watch Movies On Xbox One With External Hard Drive

This video will teach you how to play movies or any video file on your xbox one xb1 from a usb drive or flash drive subscribe to the channel http yt f.

How to watch movies on xbox one with external hard drive. I have a 1tb seagate external hard drive with a bunch of movies on it. I selected media device and opened the media. When i connect my movie filled iomego e go hard drive to my xbox 360 via usb my xbox doesn t even recognize it.

You just have to format the drive into ntfs fat or fat32. 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. How do i make this work.

And the good news is that you can download movies and tv shows to the xbox 360 and xbox one hard drive already. Connect your external usb 3 0 drive to one of the usb 3 0 ports on the xbox one and plug in the ac power for the external drive if applicable. All of xbox movies are in high resolutions with stream or download options equipped.

However if you want to use an external device for games then it has to be a usb 3 0 and a minimum of 256gb. I looked up how to do it and it seemed pretty straight forward so plugged it in via usb. By using the external hard drive on xbox one all prior data is erased.

Connect your external hard drive to an xbox one usb port. Therefore whether to download xbox movies or to watch directly depends on your personal requirements. I want to watch them with my xbox one.

Plug a new empty hard drive into your xbox one have it format it and use that for apps and games like the xbox internal use a computer hard drive with files on it and play them through the xbox media player app i used a wd passport drive that was usb 3 0 and 1tb and was able to play 1080p movies off of it.