I will be visiting China and want to download movies to watch on the plane of Air China. I would like to download to a memory stick, so I can play the movies via my Kingston 5 in 1 for my Ipad.

I will be visiting China and want to download movies to watch on the plane of Air China. I would like to download to a memory stick, so I can play the movies via my Kingston 5 in 1 for my Ipad.

Chances are that will not work.

First of all, your movies will have DRM on them which prohibit generally just put the files anywhere. And, unfortunately, most of the USB drives do not work plugged into the iPad. Most triggers a warning 'unit wants too much power. and if they don't 'make the files on the disk must be formatted to imitate a card camera to mainly use the photos app to "fool" the iPad by seeing the files. (in a folder called DCIM and with file names exactly 8 characters)

If you are unable to get this to work, you can't watch off the stick (personally if you try I would try a SD card with the card camera adapter). You must import the file on the iPad and then watch it and delete it.

That works for homemade video files, however rented downloaded movies usually have digital rights management on them that ban you placed on a file or reading them.

There are devices like the Kingston WiDrive, which makes a localized wifi hotspot you connect your iPad to then disseminate content from there. However, it takes some experience since you can have the technology part down but may or may not be able to move the files. (I only download content from itunes so I can't say for sure if it works or not)

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