Windows 10: Problem opening video files from external hard drive shared via FTP network

Hello, I was wondering if you have any solutions on how to open video files from an external drive shared through a router without downloading it? Our WiFi router TP-link AC 1200 have an USB port where we can put external hard drive to it, and can share the files in the network. Every tablet and phone can play the videos without downloading the files before playing it, but in windows i simply can't open them, i just only can download the files first, and after that i can open them.At "This PC" i added a network location which is "ftp://192.168.0.1/sda1". With windows file explorer i can brow

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Problem opening FTP media files

Hello,

I was wondering if you have any solutions on how to open video files from an external drive shared through a router?

I open the path in vain, and even though the appropriate (VLC) media player is installed on Windows, when opening the file, Windows says that no application is associated with this file type, and this one called VLC does not even appear in the drop-down list application. And when I go to search for applications from the store, it is interesting that it tries to search for an application for me using the keyword "ftp", not even for mp4 or mkv.

Thank you in advance for your answers!

 

External Hard Drive

Hi John,

We suggest that you try the troubleshooting steps below:

• Open your External Hard Drive file in File Explorer.
• Type the name of the file you want to search on the search box and click Enter.

The file will show up in Search Results and you will be able to move it to the correct folder.

Let us know if you need further help.

 

cannot open files on network shared drive

I have used a small handful of applications that just won't open a \\host\share\file.ext

Annoying, but there may be a workaround, try mapping the share to a drive letter:

In Explorer, Tools > Map network drive...





Then choose an unused drive letter, and the shared folder.





This will work for most programs as it'll see K:\kitchen.kit