Pico 4 Ultra + DeoVR – External Hard Drive Not Recognized (Any Workarounds?)

Fapmaster17

I’m using a Pico 4 Ultra and trying to play SLR Master files locally from an external hard drive via USB-C OTG, since the file sizes are too large and 3 videos already fill up the internal storage.

The Pico system recognizes the external drive without any issues. The native file manager detects it and I can play videos through the default player. However, the drive does not appear in DeoVR at all.

This is a problem because the native Pico player does not correctly format SLR 190-fisheye videos, so projection is wrong, and it also does not support Handy integration or funscript playback. So at the moment, while the headset supports external storage at the OS level, DeoVR does not seem to be able to access it.

Has anyone managed to get DeoVR to recognize external drives on Pico? Is there a known workaround, such as manually adding the mount path or using a specific file system format?

Any technical advice would be appreciated, thanks!

doublevr

Everything local is complicated because of too many factors out of control. You better use deovr drive

SchnuppiLilac

Fapmaster17 Master files only have data rates of 150 Mbps, so why not use Wifi for playing them?

bboy7895

works fine for me and i have pico 4 ultra. Are you talking about pvcr locally or dlna locally?

SchnuppiLilac

Everything local is ~~complicated~~ not supported on purpose because of ~~too many factors out of control. You better use~~ deovr drive

acjackson2431

Longshot, but try going into settings for DeoVR and make sure that it is enabled to access 'audio files' from outside sources. I had to do this to get it to recognize files stored directly on my Q3. Not sure if it's applicable here.