Play directly from SD card adapter?

[McDark]

Can VLC play videos directly from an SD Card or USB adapter? Apple's own or 3rd party ones?

Reason being, I'm going on holiday and I want to take a bunch of films to watch on the plane. Unfortunately, my iPad is only a 16 gig version, so I don't have any room on it for films. I need to have them on some wired storage device. Nothing that requires wifi.

Suggestions?

[fkuehne]

Regrettably, there is no API to read arbitrary files from SD cards, so we can't support that :/

[McDark]

Oh. <sigh> Serves me right for getting an iPad rather than an Android or Windows tablet. :-/

Okay, so you can't play video directly from external storage, but is there any way to transfer a video file into VLC without having to go via a PC/Mac?

[stikoz]

VLC has a built in http server that allows you tu upload movies on your iPad's internal storage via wi-fi quite simply by dragging/dropping files in your browser but that could imply the usage of a Mac/Pc.
Solution : buy a wi-fi hdd/ssd or a wi-fi module that is able to host sd-card/usb pen (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ICEWB58) to play movies directly from this external storage via wi-fi

[McDark]

Thanks, but not really suitable for the circumstance. Can't use wifi on the plane. It has to be a wired interface. So frustrating that there doesn't seem to be a solution to what sounds like a very simple problem.

[PlatypusW]

You can if you are jailbroken by mounting the sd card (has to be hfs+ format) and then use sftp to access the contents (with OpenSSH installed and a port higher than 50000).

Browsing might be an issue though. It's not the best solution as its very hacky, but it's something.

[summit48]

In response to McDark's comment "Can't use wifi on the plane"....Not sure about that!

American Airlines
https://www.americanairlines.com.au/i18 ... nology.jsp

QANTAS
http://www.qantas.com/travel/airlines/w ... ment/au/en

4 handy options for adding storage to your iPhone or iPad
http://www.macworld.com/article/2904073 ... -ipad.html