Watch Movies On Xbox One From Usb

If you have a windows pc your usb drive will work on your xbox one as long as your windows pc can read it.

Watch movies on xbox one from usb. In this video i will show you step by step on how to access your thumb drive or cell phone usb drive thumb drive flash drive external hard drive from yo. If you have a usb flash drive or external drive you can use it to play videos on the xbox one. You just have to format the drive into ntfs fat or fat32.

Copying files from a usb does work. The xbox one june update introduced external storage support. Possible to watch 2160p movies from an external usb drive.

I just got an xb1x and a 4k projector been saving all year and dying to watch some 4k movies. Just a quick video to show people how to play video files from a usb stick on the xbox one. And not one of them played lol.

It will reformat the external drive on setting up but it will work with movies music and games afterwards. So i downloaded lots of movies in 2160p x265 10 bit and loaded them all onto an external usb drive and into my xb1x. That was patched out but the ability to copy files still works.

The xbox one supports usb 1 usb 2 and usb 3 drives. There actually used to be a way to access the c windows directory read only by creating a shortcut to it on a pc then copying it over with a usb and the shortcut would work in the file explorer app. The external setup is merely for game saves.

The wii u does not have any support currently for external movies. Its seems like a really hidden feature.