Anyway to plug a USB Drive with movies into the Icehouse’s DVD player?

This is a common DVD player in Icehouses/Ice Shacks.

Is there anyway to plug a USB Drive with movies into it and make it show on the TV if it’s a Smart TV?

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Plug usb in to the smart TV.

Edit. I misunderstood your question at first. Nevermind.

Like BC said. Plug it into the TV.

Some TV’s will have issues reading some hard drives, you may have to have a specific format it will only read. I ran into that with my TV I had and a replacement TV. If you can I suggest buying the same brand TV and hard drive.

Otherwise you could try a USB to HDMI adapter and plug it into your player.
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You can “connect them” using an adapter, but that doesn’t mean it will work. The interfaces are very different, with very different ways of working.

HDMI is a streaming video interface. It is a digital version of the analog cable that used to be used for broadcast. It expects a signal with 60 frames per second, each frame consisting of a square array of pixels.

A USB stick is just a storage device just like a hard disc (or like a dvd). It doesn’t do anything of its own accord. It stores files and needs a computer to read and write them. Some of those files may be video in MPEG format which need to be decoded into pixels to play them.

So what you need is a small computer to read the files, decode them, and output them. If a TV has a USB socket, it has such a computer inside it. You will need to find a gadget with such a computer. That might be a satellite receiver or a DVD player.

I’m not saying you should not try the adapter, as I am not familiar with how the ice house interface works with the monitor/tv screen. Every system will have its own quirks.

I have tried this very thing in the past. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it does not. It simply depends upon where the “little computing device” exists between your USB storage and the screen.

Full Disclosure: I am not an electronics expert, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night!

that usb is probably charging only the 5v charging lettering kinda leads me to that. a laptop plugged into hdmi or a chromecast and streaming from your phone is probably your best bet.

As Bearcat said. Just plug the flash drive into the tv.

It looks like the the USB in your photo is for charging.
It does have an hdmi port next to it. You could go from flash drive to computer then computer to dvd player through an hdmi cord.

I think steros with USB ports only read music files.

Google “iRV62 Manual”. USB port is charging only (see image) but the HDMI port is an input that should pass through to TV.

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