{"id":4,"date":"2018-03-28T01:37:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T01:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bpdw.com\/mentary\/?p=4"},"modified":"2018-03-28T01:45:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T01:45:26","slug":"sandisk-wireless-media-drive-info-including-h265-instructions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bpdw.com\/mentary\/2018\/03\/28\/sandisk-wireless-media-drive-info-including-h265-instructions\/","title":{"rendered":"SanDisk Wireless Media Drive info including h265 instructions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/71oe2y0iMPL._SL1500_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"844\" \/>I picked up one of these devices about four years ago, the 64GB model. It&#8217;s a flash drive (with an SD slot that enables greater capacity) that sets up a short-range ad hoc Wi-Fi network wherever it is. Devices who connect to it can stream anything loaded onto it. This one seems to have been discontinued or deprecated, so I&#8217;m putting this page up to explain it a little to people who may find one in a clearance bin or at a yard sale.<\/p>\n<p>It comes in really handy on family trips &#8212; I load it up with recent films, TV episodes, and other videos for all the family to stream on their trips. (We may switch to a higher-quota data plan in the next few years that would reduce the need for such a device but for now, I like this thing.)<\/p>\n<p>The bad thing about it is that if you&#8217;re on an iOS device, you can only access it via the SanDisk Media Drive app. If you visit its web address in Safari on a device that has an app available, it will bring up a web interface but put a panel over it that directs you to the App Store.<\/p>\n<p>The SanDisk Connect Wireless Media Drive app is still available on the App Store and works fine with iOS 11, but it hasn&#8217;t been updated in several years. It uses an embedded VLC engine to play files, which means it can play formats that the iPhone&#8217;s QuickTime engine can&#8217;t. But that engine hasn&#8217;t been updated in several years either, which means it can&#8217;t handle some files that have recently gained in popularity, most significantly h265, the higher-res successor to h264.<\/p>\n<p>There are two solutions that I am aware of:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itsplayingapp.com\/\">It&#8217;s Playing<\/a> (free, $9.99 one-time upgrade fee) can reportedly browse SanDisk wireless drives and stream files from them with the Pro upgrade. Its last update was September of last year which added h265 compatibility.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.videolan.org\/vlc\/download-ios.html\">VLC<\/a> (free) can play h265 files (have tested and can confirm on last year&#8217;s 9.7&#8243; iPad Pro). The SanDisk media app will choke on them claiming a VLC error &#8212; this is because it&#8217;s using an older version of VLC that can&#8217;t open these files. At this point I think you have to install a newer VLC app and the files have to be loaded into that VLC, first. You can accomplish this from the SanDisk Connect app by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>going to the Files mode to view the storage<\/li>\n<li>selecting one or more video files<\/li>\n<li>choosing the &#8220;Open In&#8221; option. It&#8217;ll download them to your device &#8211; takes about one minute per hour of HD video, make sure you&#8217;ve got room on the device<\/li>\n<li>When they&#8217;ve downloaded, choose &#8220;VLC&#8221; from the list of installed apps to open them in<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.hak5.org\/topic\/35884-sandisk-wireless-media-drive-root-crackand-other-useful-info\/\">Interested researchers have discovered a &#8220;wide open&#8221; ftp server<\/a>, and VLC can stream from ftp servers, so there may be a shorter workflow for this, or one that doesn&#8217;t require loading the files to the iPhone\/iPad&#8217;s local storage. I&#8217;ll try that\u2026 um\u2026 real soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up one of these devices about four years ago, the 64GB model. It&#8217;s a flash drive (with an SD slot that enables greater capacity) that sets up a short-range ad hoc Wi-Fi network wherever it is. Devices who connect to it can stream anything loaded onto it. This one seems to have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bpdw.com\/mentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bpdw.com\/mentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bpdw.com\/mentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bpdw.com\/mentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bpdw.com\/mentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bpdw.com\/mentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"http:\/\/bpdw.com\/mentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bpdw.com\/mentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bpdw.com\/mentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bpdw.com\/mentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}