I have a small problem. My WD TV player died on me so I am now looking for a way to play my movies and tv shows that I have saved to an external harddrive on my tv. I have them saved in dvd (vob etc) formats and want to be able to access them on the tv like I used to with the WD player. I realize I could change them to a separate format and play them on a Roku etc but really want to avoid all of that work to change it. Anyone know of a newer option since the WD TV players are discontinued?

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"Do or do not there is no try!"

If you can access them from your PC you can download Kodi to play them directly onto your TV.

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Arte et Marte

Kodi or Plex is what I use. Any android box or laptop or even tablet works. If you use plex and set it up on your network you can access them from any device on the network.

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Okay I will check with you at some point, probably tomorrow. I've been working on a home project and I am wore out today. That would be great so I don't have to buy another piece of equipment. Thank you.

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"Do or do not there is no try!"

Do you already have a Roku?  If so there is a Plex app for them.

Personally I have a Kodi setup on a Raspberry Pi running Linux.  In the future I plan on purchasing Amazon FireTV sticks for other rooms and using the Plex app for those.

I loaded Plexi. Fortunately the tv in my bedroom (which is where I had the WD tv player was) is a Vizio and will run Plexi. My other two will not currently run it but I had not thought of that idea; guess it would be cheaper than buying the more expensive Roku players. I have a small windows based tablet that should suffice to run the movies from so at this point I can make it work. It's a little more effort than I was doing but it will work until I can afford something a little more expensive to work with the rest of the house. Thanks for the ideas.

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"Do or do not there is no try!"