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zemlik

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is it possible to connect htc desire to an external usb HD via a powered usb hub and watch movie files ?
 
You mean connect the phone as 'Disk drive' to a TV's USB like an USB stick?

It is possible if your TV has the codec to play the video file.
But most TVs are very spartanic with their video player's codecs and will play only a few video types.

Harry
 
no, I mean connect phone through a usb hub to a USB disk and view movie files that are on disk with phone. no tv just phone, disk and a hub.
 
It would be iffy. Only a few phones currently offer any type of host mode out of the box and of those, i don't know if they supported powered hubs. Or, you'd have to find or build a custom rom with the proper drivers for both the hub and drive you wanted to use.

Personally, I do it wirelessly. I put the video files in a network share and browse to the share using ES File Explorer. Much simpler and I'm not tethered to a drive or wall socket.
 
I understand :)

For to connect an USB disk to the phone the phone has to have an USB Host.

Most phones only have an USB client.
Some (Samsung) phones have host and client.
So have most tablets.

EDIT: ... Oh, I see ... I'm some of late with my answer :)

Harry
 
ahh, thanks for replies, I do not know about this usb host, usb client, Usb hub needs to be "driven" by some software ?
So maybe samsung can connect to drive via USB ?
 
You might have look at your phone's specs for the "USB On-The-Go" feature.
This means a phone has both USB host and clint mode.

Harry
 
it is like there needs to be a "controller" for the connections. maybe there
is a little USB hub thingy that can control the things. if involve a pc defeats the purpose of having little things.
 
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