If you have a Roku player with a USB port, you can watch your personal videos or movies on your TV using the Roku USB Media Player channel.

To watch a video or movie:

• From the Roku home screen, select the Roku USB Media Player channel. (Channel must first be installed from the Roku Channel Store.)
• Select Movies in the Roku USB Media Player channel.
• Use the arrow keys to navigate through your USB folder directory to find the video or movie you wish to view. In a folder with both video files and subfolders, the video and movie files are shown at the top of the screen and the subfolders at the bottom of the screen.
• Select the video or movie. (Note:  Most videos and movies will require a buffering, or retrieving, time of 3-10 seconds.)

While a video or movie is playing, you can pause, skip forward and skip backwards using the PLAY/PAUSE, FORWARD and REVERSE buttons on your Roku remote control.

To stop video playback, press UP or BACK.

To show cover artwork for a video or movie, save a JPG file with the cover artwork under the same name as the video or movie and place both files together in the same folder.

Dolby Digital in MKV, MP4 and MOV movies is supported via pass through only. DTS in MKV movies is supported via pass through only. You must connect your Roku player via HDMI or S/PDIF (optical) to a TV or receiver capable of decoding Dolby Digital or DTS in order to hear videos with audio tracks in those formats.

Only supported video and movie file types are shown in the Roku USB Media Player channel. The app hides unsupported file types, as well as folders with no supported file types in them, from view. Click here for a list of supported video and movie file types.

Click here for instructions on how to install the Roku USB Media Player channel.