It's not very intuitive but you can copy this file back into the Camera Roll - I don't have the WifiDisk with me to confirm exactly how you do it but can confirm tomorrow if you are still stuck with this.
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It's not very intuitive but you can copy this file back into the Camera Roll - I don't have the WifiDisk with me to confirm exactly how you do it but can confirm tomorrow if you are still stuck with this.
You can definitely do it as I tried this out when reviewing the Wifidisk, I just don't recall off the top of my head the exact procedure.
Amazing post, you just answered all my questions that I didn't questioned because, well..you already said. Almost. I didn't understand the "streaming" part. You said that to watch a video in mov, you just open with ios native player, but to watch a movie in a different format you have to download it. But then you talk about streaming...with nPlayer (I gess..like any other app). How it's that possible? It will work with VLC with .srt subtitles? (everybody want to know I think) How smooth it plays a 720p movie in mkv in streaming?
Thanks! I'm considering buy this product if it really do all this!
Thx. For standard IOS supported movie formats, you can just stream with the Airstor app. To stream other formats, you would need to use an app that both supports that format and can also access smb network shares. NPlayer is snow excellent app for this. I don't think the IOS version of VLC can access network shares, I think it can only play back local files. If this is true then you would need yo download the file in the Airstor and and then use open in and select VLC. So technically you would not be streaming the movie file, just downloading from the wifidisk first and then playing it locally on your IOS device.
Thanks for the fast reply. Actually the iOS version of VLC have a "local network" option..so probably it will work as it can recognise ravpower as network streamer.. I will dig some more into this, but so far..it's brilliant. However, I'm still looking to kingston mobilelite as a more reliable device as it have an app from the same company and a good support. Shorter battery bank...but it's kingston.
Thanks one more time
Thanks one more time
Great stuff! Thanks for your help with this.
I haven't got a RAVPower or IOS device to play with at the moment, but I've done some experiments preparing a USB drive in Windows using the MusicMount tool. I had to experiment a little with the command line prompt, but got it to successfully run using:
C:\musicmount-1.4\musicmount-1.4\bin\musicmount.bat build F:\Music F:\musicmount
Where F:\ is the USB drive.
I've saved this line in notepad as a .bat file, so I presume that all I need to do to add new music is plug the drive into my PC, double click the .bat file and it will update the web server?
Would there be any way in the future of running the MusicMount tool directly from the iPad to update the web server in the RAVpower over Wifi? Music could then be downloaded directly on the iPad, copied to the RAVpower using its default app or compatible file manager and then added to the web server without the need for a PC or Mac, making it a completely computer less solution.
I also have another quick question, have you tied playing any gapless albums via the Ravpower using MusicMount Interested to hear whether this combination can handle that or if it leaves gaps when playing them?
Sorry, wasn't expecting you to answer all of this. Was hoping the music mount man might turn up. I'll email them and see. Thanks again for your help with this.
It's a real shame that the forum modulators see fit to respond to someone genuinely trying to help in this way.
I'm sorry the late reply, and thanks for your help. I'm more interested in the kingston device because I think it has (or should have) better support, in this case from kingston which is a great company.
VLC is the player that I use but if nPlayer is better, no problem. But I would like to know if it works with VLC anyway, but I know that external srt subtitles don't work in the local network streaming mode. It also doesn't work with nPlayer?
Thanks a lot!
I have a problem with Filehub, might be someone can help me.
Just purchased FileHub and SD card, set it up, installed AirStor on my iphone 5 and ipad (first generation), copied couple movies on SD card (purchased on iTunes, is it mp4 format?, files as large: ~2Gb and ~4.5GB).
Now I'm trying to stream movies on my iphone and iPad from AirStor..
iPhone gives me an error when I click on the movie in AirStor: Cannot open file.
iPad is showing the player interface but don't do anything for a long time.
I don't know if it matters, but just additional information:
I have less then 1/2 of Gb on my iPhone of the free space
iPad has much more available
Does anyone know what is wrong and how to fix it?
Otherwise I just have to give up and send the device back to Amazon, though I really like the idea to use this setup.
Thank you!!!
Just purchased FileHub and SD card, set it up, installed AirStor on my iphone 5 and ipad (first generation), copied couple movies on SD card (purchased on iTunes, is it mp4 format?, files as large: ~2Gb and ~4.5GB).
Now I'm trying to stream movies on my iphone and iPad from AirStor..
iPhone gives me an error when I click on the movie in AirStor: Cannot open file.
iPad is showing the player interface but don't do anything for a long time.
I don't know if it matters, but just additional information:
I have less then 1/2 of Gb on my iPhone of the free space
iPad has much more available
Does anyone know what is wrong and how to fix it?
Otherwise I just have to give up and send the device back to Amazon, though I really like the idea to use this setup.
Thank you!!!
The SD card is: Komputerbay 64Gb SDXC http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004LCIU1E/ref=oh_details_o02_s01_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I have tried 3 movies so far (all are from iTunes store with different sizes). I'll try to find some smaller files this evening and give you an update.
Thank you!
I have tried 3 movies so far (all are from iTunes store with different sizes). I'll try to find some smaller files this evening and give you an update.
Thank you!
Update: I've connected an external hard drive with USB.
I can see all content, navigate through items, tried to play avi, mpg files (quite small size, 500-700Mb) - I get a message Cannot open.
So far, I wasn't able to play anything from AirStor, but can see the list of files and folders only...
And I tested on both, iPhone and iPad.
I can see all content, navigate through items, tried to play avi, mpg files (quite small size, 500-700Mb) - I get a message Cannot open.
So far, I wasn't able to play anything from AirStor, but can see the list of files and folders only...
And I tested on both, iPhone and iPad.
That is the exact same one I use without any issues. It may be an issue with the Airstor app. Have you got a laptop or similar you can connect to the Filehub Wifi connection with and try using VLC or similar to play the content?
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Can you also confirm you have the latest firmware on the unit and using the latest Airstor app?
I've found this thread interesting. I've started using a RavPower RP-WD01 within the last couple of days. I'm using it with my Note 3 phone and my Macs.
The first thing was that the device though it reads SD cards just fine it won't recognise any of my 50+Tb of external Mac formatted drives. On advice from RavPower, I reformatted an old 500Gb drive originally inside an old Mac to FAT and loaded it with media, this now works. It recognises files and I can (for instance) view JPGs and play all movies - the latter using VLC. I think the JPGs are being displayed using an internal image viewer on the device. Haven't found a way to stop it doing that yet and allowing me to use my phone's apps.
(My phone is 96Gb - shortly to go up to 160Gb.) One of the things I was hoping to do was shift files to and from the phone and the drive as existing methods of doing so between Mac and Androis are a horrible kludge [Android File Transfer]. Thanks Apple for making that so difficult and problematic and not mounting these phones on the desktop. (A bit like PC stuff decades ago wouldn't for a long time.)
I have moved individual files but haven't yet found a way to move entire folders or batches of files.
If I'm going to use this as a mobile card reader for camera cards, that will have to be solved. In fact it has to be solved anyway.
I'm not sure why there appear to be alternative phone apps doing roughly the same thing: RAV Filehub or AirStor.
And has anyone seen a dedicated Mac application that talks to a RavPower RP-WD01? I can certainly connect to its wifi.
The first thing was that the device though it reads SD cards just fine it won't recognise any of my 50+Tb of external Mac formatted drives. On advice from RavPower, I reformatted an old 500Gb drive originally inside an old Mac to FAT and loaded it with media, this now works. It recognises files and I can (for instance) view JPGs and play all movies - the latter using VLC. I think the JPGs are being displayed using an internal image viewer on the device. Haven't found a way to stop it doing that yet and allowing me to use my phone's apps.
(My phone is 96Gb - shortly to go up to 160Gb.) One of the things I was hoping to do was shift files to and from the phone and the drive as existing methods of doing so between Mac and Androis are a horrible kludge [Android File Transfer]. Thanks Apple for making that so difficult and problematic and not mounting these phones on the desktop. (A bit like PC stuff decades ago wouldn't for a long time.)
I have moved individual files but haven't yet found a way to move entire folders or batches of files.
If I'm going to use this as a mobile card reader for camera cards, that will have to be solved. In fact it has to be solved anyway.
I'm not sure why there appear to be alternative phone apps doing roughly the same thing: RAV Filehub or AirStor.
And has anyone seen a dedicated Mac application that talks to a RavPower RP-WD01? I can certainly connect to its wifi.
Well....I don't even know what to say..but my Kingston MobileLite (I know..it's not RavPower) just arrived, and I tested it with a class 4 16GB ScanDisk SD card (so not the best) and used VLC to play a 720p MKV, with no success because VLC doesn't recognize SMB networks. So yeah, I bought nPlayer and man..this were the best 4 I ever spent..Amazing functionality, simple menus, video ajustments, just WOW. Thanks Donka for your posts and excellent review and tip on nPlayer.
Thanks!
Thanks!
You're welcome. nPlayer is unrelated to these devices but it is a great app and well recommended as it works so well. Sorry I didn't get round to testing the srt files - just been very busy at the moment.
Yes. You can use an app like Goodreader or Readdle Docs to manage the files and upload & download from the external drive. You can also use the drives app to pull the file down and open in the likes of pages and then do the same with the edited file. From pages, open in the drive app and then upload to the drive.