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Can the option to play movies from a USB stick be enabled from the service menu on our TV's?

Got home tonight turned on my TV selected my raspi and all my folders and photos were there. Thanks for all the help. Maybe pen tester can answer this question too,when you select a folder does it show previews of your pics or does it just show the file icon?

Installed minidlna tonight, can't say it is working correctly but it does work. My tv is only seeing some of the folders in my photo directory. This looks like the solution i was looking for, thanks.

xbmc would be an option, but I'd like to run owncloud from the same raspi and I don't want to overload it with xbmc just so my wife can look at her pictures, I was hoping for a smaller simpler solution. Plus I thought i read somewhere that Samsung was picky about what dlna servers it recognized and ...

set up with samba, so my kids can back up their windows laptops.

Has anyone found a way to make their TV recognize a network drive. I have a hard drive full of pictures i'd like to be able to view on my UN60F6300AFXZA. My tv readily recognized my windows computers but I have a Raspberry Pi with a USB drive attached that i use for network storage. Any ideas?