Enjoy streaming movies on Roku 3 from a USB Drive

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The Roku 3 has a wide range of ports, including a USB type a port with which one can interface a removable USB thumb drive. The Roku 3 has the ability to playback locally stored video and photos on the USB thumb drive. Roku 3 also supports a USB hub by which multiple thumb drives can be connected. Let us see the supported file systems for USB thumb drive and the various file formats supported by the Roku 3.

File systems and File formats supported by Roku 3

USB drives which are supported should be of FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, EXT2, EXT3 or HFS+ file system type. Roku 3 also supports accessing multi-partitioned USB drives. To initialize playing video on the Roku 3 from a USB thumb drive connect the USB device to the provided USB port.
The Roku media player channel will automatically initialize. If there is no installation of the Roku Media player app then there is a prompt that asks you to install the channel from channel store. On completion of the installation, the Roku 3 will notify you to open Roku Media Player. If you had already selected the Roku media player channel then you would be redirected to the media device selection screen. Roku.com/link generally support multiple formats. The Roku with the latest firmware may also be able to support additional format types.
The quality of Audio playback is dependent on the TV or the A/V receiver the Roku is interfaced with. To verify what formats are supported by the Roku 3 visit the help section of media device and the media type selection screens. File formats supported for video are MKV, MP4, and MOV with h.264/AVC encoding. The audio file formats supported are AAC, MP3, FLAC, and PCM. It also supports formats like.WAV, Vorbis and a lot of other common audio.
The image formats supported are JPG, GIF (not animated) and PNG. The Roku media player doesn't show unsupported file formats, neither can it playback DRM protected content. Let us take a look at the steps to playback movies on the Roku 3.

How to stream movies on Roku 3 from a USB Drive?

The following are the steps to play movies on Roku 3 using a USB device.
  • On the media selection screen choose the type of media to be played back.
  • Choose the USB thumb drive with the content you would like to watch on your Roku device.
  • Navigate through folders if you have placed the content on a separate folder.
  • If the file is an unsupported file it may not be shown on the list of existing files.
  • If the desired content is found then press the OK button on the Roku remote.
  • Alternatively, you can press the Play button on the remote to start playback.
  • Whilst playing the content Roku com link offers options to pause the content, skip the content forward, skip the content backward using play and pause button, forward or reverse scan button on the Roku remote respectively.
  • Certain media content doesn't support fast-forwarding or rewinding the content.
  • Finally, to stop the playback, press the Back button present on the Roku Remote to instantly stop the content from playing.
Roku 3 also supports playing photos as slideshows allowing the user to enjoy their most memorable and cherished moments in the form of a small slideshow.

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