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Play your own videos, from the device or a USB drive

mtivi is a media player as well as an IPTV player: your own files, browsed by folder, with favorites, groups and the same player.

2 min readUpdated 20 Sep 2026

mtivi does not only play your playlist. It plays what you already own, from internal storage, a USB stick or an SD card, on every plan including Free.

Open it

The Local tab in the navigation bar. If you do not see it, add it under Settings, then Browsing, then Navigation Bar.

What it gives you

Feature Detail
Browse by folder Your real folder structure, including a removable drive when one is plugged in
All videos Everything on the device in one list, whatever folder it sits in
Favorites Press and hold a video to keep it at the top
Your own groups Build collections of your own files, the same way you do with channels
Sorting Newest, oldest, name, largest or longest
Thumbnails and recents Pictures from the files themselves, and a list of what you played last

The same player

Local files open in mtivi’s own player, so you keep resume, seek, playback speed, aspect and zoom, audio track selection, your own subtitle files, and subtitles generated from the audio on paid plans.

Nothing is listed? Android asks for permission to read videos the first time. If it was declined, grant it from the empty screen or in the device’s app permissions, and the list fills in.

A USB stick on a TV box

Plug it in and let the device mount it. mtivi scans every storage volume it can see, so the drive appears beside internal storage rather than needing a file manager.

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