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I have five hard drives. Four 1Tb(Terrabytes) and one 4Tb, drives. Three have been connected to the LG oled TV USB ports. I found a way to add the two remaining 1Tb drives by connecting them to the TP-Link AD7200 router's USB ports. As stated in a previous post, I had problems playing some of the videos on one drive due to incorrect aspect ratios. I found I could play them using VLC. I connected that drive to the router and now have access to the drive from VLC. The videos on the two router connected drives can be accessed by my laptop and played on the TV, or accessed by the TV directly through the wifi/LAN connection. A total of nine terrabytes is now available. Correction, eight and a half terrabytes. One of the drives is five hundred gigabytes, i.e, one half terrabyte.

My TV is 4K capable. I have several 4K videos that play, but not in the correct aspect ratio. I use VLC video player as my go to for video. I can select different aspect ratios. First off, I tried altering the DAR(Display Aspect Ratio), primarily a metadata change, to reflect the correct ratio. This worked in VLC but not on the TV. Making the equivalent change in the SAR(Sampling Aspect Ratio) would take eight to ten hours per video. I found a work around. I can connect my laptop to my TV using an HDMI cable. This allows me to display my laptop screen on my TV. Now, I watch the problem videos on my TV by running connecting the external hard drive containing the 4K UHD videos to my laptop via a USB port. I open VLC with the correct aspect ratio for the problem videos and play. There was one remaining problem, a matter of convenience. My laptop has to be next to the TV with the short HDMI cable. I don't want to use a long cable because of noise and loading issues. A long cabl...