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Media box with hard drive for kids.

Posted on 6/29/20 at 8:26 am
Posted by DieSmilen
My Rubbermaid Desk
Member since Dec 2007
1726 posts
Posted on 6/29/20 at 8:26 am
I originally bought a couple of amazon fire tvs with the option to add storage. I thought they would allow me down load movies I own instead of streaming. However, I can’t see where that is an option. My 6 and 2 year old watch 6-8 movies in general and I am basically streaming them each time they watch them. The last couple of months we have been killing our data from cox. I am looking for something would let me download the movies to them and let it play from there. We have streamed PETS, Minnions and Cars a million times.
Posted by bluebarracuda
Member since Oct 2011
18228 posts
Posted on 6/29/20 at 8:55 am to
Sounds like someone needs a plex server
Posted by ArkLaTexTiger
Houston
Member since Nov 2009
2461 posts
Posted on 6/29/20 at 9:24 am to
I store movies, songs and photos on an external USB hard drive.

I have the USB HD plugged into a USB port on my home router and have uPNP enabled on the router's USB port.

I'm able to access the media from any client on my home network that supports uPNP.

Posted by bengalman
In da Country
Member since Feb 2007
3176 posts
Posted on 6/29/20 at 1:57 pm to
Plex is definitely what you need along with a plex pass
Posted by LSshoe
Burrowing through a pile o MikePoop
Member since Jan 2008
4001 posts
Posted on 6/29/20 at 6:05 pm to
Plex is probably the way to go. Not sure what the actual cheapest hardware solution to run it would be. Maybe a raspberry pi. With a big enough SD card you could maybe run everything off that. A USB stick to store the movies would be another way to do it.
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