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I have recently bought a Seagate Goflex satellite mobile wireless hard drive. I have converted some of my AVI movies to mp4 and transferred them to the hard drive, but when I play them through my iPad 2 I can hear the sound but not see the movie. Help???

I have recently bought a Seagate Goflex satellite mobile wireless hardrive , i have converted some of my AVI movies to MP4 and loaded them onto the hard drive, when I try and play them through my I pad2 I can hear the sound of the movie but not see the film, somebody please help, what am I doing wrong as I have spent a lot of time converting these movies to be able to travel with my iPad and watch them. Thank you

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Posted on Aug 1, 2012 11:37 AM

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HereIsTom

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Posted on Aug 1, 2012 1:56 PM

Try the flex:player App, then you also don't have to convert your videos; http://itunes.apple.com/app/flex-player/id451024857?alreadyRedirected=1&mt=8

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Aug 21, 2013 4:19 PM in response to stevoramaa

Ok y'all I've been scouring the Internet for ideas on this. I'll quickly give the situation: headed to a ship, no wifi, bought the seagate goflex satellite and acquired some video content. Before I left I converted as many as I could to mp4 but there are numerous good movies that I can't watch. I was trying to simplify so I bought the ipad4 and left the laptop at home. So far I have vlc, oplayer, buzz player, and flex player- working all the angles here because in a day or two I lose wifi access for quite a while. I'm not super talented with this device so could someone pleas explain how I download files and access them by one of these players. Every once in awhile post downloading an avi via seagate media app it will give me the option to open the file in a different media player (I've actually watched a movie this way) but its no at all consistent.

I'd really appreciate your help. GO NAVY!

I have recently bought a Seagate Goflex satellite mobile wireless hard drive. I have converted some of my AVI movies to mp4 and transferred them to the hard drive, but when I play them through my iPad 2 I can hear the sound but not see the movie. Help???