Question Videos on external drive only play one at a time ?

[PDN]

The title pretty much says it all. I have an external drive formated as xfat and I have many videos on it with different extensions.
Whether I play VLC, Windows Media Player or any other media player, only one video at a time plays.
I would like to have it play consecutively without me having to prompt it to play the next. I ran Wondershare video epair and it is ok. I ran chkdsk and it too was ok. I think there is a way to have the files play one afer the other without clicking the keys.

 

[Nigel Spike]

My VLC has a function in the menu called "playlist" that lets you add several songs to a list of songs, that can be played consecutively without anyone having to prompt it to play the next. Doesn't yours?

 

[USAFRet]

I think there is a way to have the files play one afer the other without clicking the keys.

Yes.

The playlist function.

On the menu:
View
Playlist.
Then, drop as many files in there as desired. It will play one after the other. In order or random.

 

[BFG-9000]

The ability to automatically play all media files in sequence on insertion of a USB drive was removed from Windows back in 2011, due to some possible security vulnerability with autorun.inf being used to silently execute malicious programs too.

You can apparently still do this with CDs or DVDs, but sadly not USB flash drives or hard disks.