Share external USB HDD between PC and TV

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I bought an external hard drive which I would like to use for media storage. I managed to connect the HDD to the USB port of my wireless router and to use it as a network drive. So I can save movies on the external hard drive from my computer wirelessly.

Now I want to watch the movies on my TV. It works if I unplug the external hard drive from the router and connect it to the USB port of my TV. However I always have to do that manually.

I then tried to use a USB Hub but it did't work. It there any possibility that I use the HDD with the router and the TV at the same time?

user240296

Posted 2013-07-24T06:57:11.600

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1Welcome to Super User. Can you please tell us the brand of your router and your TV? This are important informations to help you. Please edit your post accordingly. – Uwe Plonus – 2013-07-24T07:21:31.260

Precisely, does you TV have network capabilities? If so, it should be easy to access a network drive. – who.knows – 2013-07-24T07:58:34.977

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Very few TVs have it. In facts, they generally have few known codecs. I advise you to steer you towards a multimedia box Android TV or Apple TV if you have the financial ability to get one. Otherwise, lowcost solutions (I use one) like Raspberry PI + an embedded Raspbmc OS will allow you to recover all the desired content from your network share. It's very powerfull and easy to use.

DeaconFraust

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