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Playing mp3 and mkv files via usb openbox v8s

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johnnyboy666

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Hello,

First post here, you seem like a knowledgeable bunch so hopefully somebody can help.

I've got an Openbox V8S, which in addition to the satellite function, I was hoping to use as a bit of a media hub for music and films from my hard drive. But I'm unable to play mp3 or MKV files. The MKV files will play the audio with no picture and give an error message, and the mp3 files will show all the song details, title, length etc, but will not play.

I spoke to my provider and they think the box should be able to play these files, but in the spec sheet for the box it just states 'multimedia' without specifying what file types it will play.

It seems a bit odd to me that it wouldn't play MP3, with that being quite a popular music format! MKV is not so much of an issue as I don't have much in that format, but my entire music collection is in MP3, so it would be nice to be able to play it!

So can anybody advise if this box should play these files? And if not as standard, is there a way I can update/upgrade it to do so?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

John
 
Reaper is the man for this question, I will send him a PM and ask him to answer you here.
 
It depends on the box--is it genuine/original or is it a genuine/original/clone.I haven't got one here right now [flogged 'em all] but my sons in-laws have one so I will check with them and get back to you.
Btw these boxes pick and choose which usb keys they like but kingston always worked for me. Also the rare MKV files never work as I don't think the format is installed.
Reaper.
 
It certainly looks to be genuine, and was sold as such. But I've not seen a clone to compare it against so couldn't be 100% certain on that.
Mkv I can live without, so that's fine.
My hard drive is western digital, not sure if I've got a Kingston usb stick but I'll try my sandisk one and see if it likes it.
Cheers
 
I've just heard back from the seller of the box and they've confirmed that mp3 is not supported. Which is annoying. On the plus side, they've offered me a partial refund
 
Ate you sure? I still can't find anything that states the the genuine article should play mp3s. Whereas in your link above, the v9 specifically mentions mp3

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Ah hang on. So the 'v8s' is a clone of the 'sv8'? I thought the v8s was it's own entity, didn't realise it was a clone of something else!
 
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