The most simple way to player a movie/video/photos/song - just prepare a harddisk with your 'files' (either internal or external). Connect it the A400. It will read all your files. It will play smoothly. However, please do update it to the latest firmware. Do reset to factory default before update the firmware. There are still some minor 'bugs' to the player. Some mkv and BDMV files has occasional playing problem. Don't Fast forward too much. Sometimes it will hang.