can i run applications directly from a portable hard drive?

mm09

for example can i play movies directly from the hard drive or do i have to copy the movie files onto the computer first and play it from there.

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You can do almost anything on a portable hard drive. You have to install the program to your portable hard drive, or use portable applications (found at http://portableapps.com/) to ensure that, should the installer save paths in registry keys or configuration files, they point to the right place, and not to a non-existant location on your hard drive where the files used to be.

However, you must make sure that when you want to use a program/file, your hard drive must be connected to your computer for the duration of the use, and that, unless your portable hard drive is plugged in 24/7, it will not be an on-demand, ready to go experience.

Also, USB read/write speeds will be a bottleneck, so I wouldn't recommend running any games off of a hard drive. Playing movies is usually okay because most modern video players buffer the video quite a bit, and therefore allow for a smooth show.

How can I copy DVD movies on to my hard drive so I can in turn copy them to my hand held video player?

Lovr

I know there are tons of expensive software that can do this but is there a free way to burn the DVD onto my hard drive so I can simply move/copy the .divx, .mpeg or .avi to my Player?

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I think you can use E.M. Free DVD Copy. It can let you copy dvd to your hard drive, you can also rip DVD to other popular formats, such as h264, Xvid,MOV, VOB, Mpeg, Mpeg4, Mpeg TS, AVI, WMV. so you can watch dvd movies on portable player.

free use without limiting.

if you want to try it , you can get it from:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22E.M.+Free+DVD+Copy%22&btnG=Google+Search

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=em+dvd+copy&ygmasrchbtn=web+search&fr=ush-ans

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Portable media player to play from hard drive?

Uigui Iuuv

I have an external hard drive with lots of videos in mp4 and avi format
is there a media player that I can attach a portable 500gb hard drive to and play the videos through easily. the player doesn't need to have an internal hard drive or a dvd player, simply just a screen to play the videos.
Thanks

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Put the drive in an external Drive Case.

Portable Media/Video Player with Hard Drive for Car?

deeze

My minivan has a built in DVD player with TV screen and also has video inputs including composite video as well as HDMI.

I am trying to find a portal video player with a built-in hard drive that plays AVI or DIVx movies.
This way I can load up all my kids movies on the hard drive without having to lug around dozens of DVD's.

Can anyone recommend such a player? I noticed there are a few portal media players for the home but none have power adapter for the car.

Thanks!

Answer
I am doing the same the device is an ipod video i have 60 hours of video and 300 songs
and this is the cable i use to make it work in a town and country
http://www.oemautosound.com/pc-352-79-ipod-aux-input-docking-to-rca-video-charging-cable.aspx

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Is it possible and worthwhile to move and run games from an external portable hard drive?

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student000

I am considering buying a portable external hard drive to put music, videos and games on, but i have heard that games may either run slowly or not at all due to problems with the regisry or something.
Also, can i run other programs such as audio editing programs or winrar etc.
I am ultimately trying to make room on my small, and slow internal hard drive on my windows xp computer.
Basically, will games be playable if they are already kinda slow on my interanal hard drive from an external portable hard drive.
Thanks for any help you could offer.

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If the game program is located entirely on the portable drive, you are OK. If not, such things as registry settings can get in the way. How can you tell? Good luck in trying. Other than asking the game manufacturer, if they respond to your inquiry, there are few reliable sources. Trial and error is up to you. Small games may be worth trying. Large games that take too long to load in the first place would be really frustrating if they fail.
Videos and audio editing use standard file types and therefore are portable. You can use one editor on one PC and another on another PC and not have to worry about compatibility.
Games on the other hand are usually on the bleeding edge of technology and much is non-standard or proprietary. If you were a game manufacturer, would you tell how you did things to anyone while you are trying to stay in the forefront of gaming technology? So if you don't want to install it twice, think twice about installing it on the portable drive.
I have a second, larger internal drive, on my PC. If I upgrade to a new PC, it can change the operating system on the new primary drive, but all I have to do is move the second drive to the new machine and 90% of reloading the game is done.
Why not consider a second internal drive for the games and a writeable DVD player for the videos and audio editing. The DVD player takes longer to write, but you can move the files to the faster second drive for editing until you get it right and then let it burn to the DVD drive unattended.

Is it possible to play music from an external hard drive without a computer?

Some Guy

I never seem to have enough space on my mp3 or phone to store all my music and videos.
So I was wondering if there wasn't something that allowed me to play music and/or videos directly from my portable hard drive.

Maybe, an adapter to female 3,5 mm jack? An android app?
I've used Google but couldn't find anything.

Answer
We were just talking about that. There is at least one speaker unit out there that takes USB input. I know that our local geek shop has SD card and flashdrive players, but I don't have one so can't tell you how well they work.

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