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Usb thumb drive to projector

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daraksharnah

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Hello, as the title says, I'm looking for a device to connect a USB thumb drive to a projector. The projector has: hdmi, d-sub, component(? Red/yellow/white), s-video. I figured easiest why would be an hdmi to female usb, but can't find one for the life of me.

Thanks for the help!
 
It was considered, but I shoulda given more detail :3

It's for a party, and the computer owner doesn't want the computer (MacBook) sitting out in the open with so many people going to be there.
 
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Unless otherwise stated, you need to think of the projector as a "dumb" device: video in -> video out. What's on a USB drive is not video; it's data. So you need something in between the two which decodes the data and makes photo's/videos out of it.

Like a computer. You can get a really long video cable (maybe expensive) or some sort of wireless A/V transmitter (probly expensive) if you want to keep the computer away...

There are other options though, like a DVD/BR player with usb which can decode DivX (look for the logo), or even better one of those little ARM android doobies which I don't know much about.
 
You could always use a Chromecast in the HDMI port and stream to it from the Macbook. Thats how id do it at least.
 
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