Add video media to Raspberry Pi4 SD card hosting LibreElec?

hiptobesquare · September 12, 2024 at 1:08 PM

Hi,

I've installed LibreElec onto a Micro SD card and put it into my Raspberry Pi 4, all works well. The Micro SD card is 64Gb, so plenty of room, I thought to put some media on as well. I couldn't get the media recognised in Win 10.

I installed Linux Mint 22 onto a USB stick, and ran it on a PC. When I went to look at the Micro SD card, I could see the contents, but it appeared Read Only. The space on the card also appeared to be less than 1Gb.

Is there a way to dump files onto a MicroSD card running LibreElec please? I'm fairly good at IT stuff, but not a command line genius or anything.

Many thanks for any help

**chewitt** · September 13, 2024 at 12:35 PM

I'd enable SSH in LibreELEC and use an SFTP client (WinSCP is my go-to when forced to use Windows) to transfer media files over to the /storage/tvshows and /storage/movies locations that are default mapped as sources in Kodi to get people started.

The /storage filesystem is EXT4 so copying files is (normally) simple in Linux but painful in Windows/macOS as neither support that filesystem type. It's a little slower, but copying over the network ends up being the easy option.

hiptobesquare · September 13, 2024 at 4:21 PM

Hi Chewitt,

Many thanks for that. I find it odd that if I was using a Linux (Mint) environment, it wouldn't give access to 'write' on the SD card holding LibreElec.

Thanks for the SSH details, I was hoping to avoid it, but will give it a go

Cheers

P

**HiassofT** · September 13, 2024 at 11:46 PM

In LibreELEC everything is running under / owned by root.

So, as a normal user you can't simply write to eg videos on the ext4 storage partition if you mount it on your PC.

You can copy files as root, or by using sudo, when the card is mounted on your PC or use scp or smb:// in your file manager when the RPi is running (smb will be a bit faster than scp).

so long,

Hias

Add video media to Raspberry Pi4 SD card hosting LibreElec?

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