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Originally Posted by vishwen
Guys please help me for my iphone to play video on my i drive.
some explain to me but cannot get it work.
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When you originally asked this question:
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Originally Posted by vishwen
Thks
How do i play video on i drive?
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...I posted a response DIRECTLY under it, literally 2 minutes later:
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Originally Posted by jphughan
^ While the phone is in the cradle, go to Multimedia > External Devices and select your phone. Then on the button stack on the left edge where you'd select your music library, skip tracks, etc, you'll see a Videos button. But you have to be using the Media cradle (not Music) and it only works for videos actually stored in your Videos library on the phone, i.e. you can't use it with the YouTube app or any third-party video apps on the phone.
You might also need to have the handbrake on and be in Park (assuming you have DCT).
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Did you not see that? If not, or if you need more basic instructions, here goes:
1. Get an iPhone 4 or 4S running iOS 5 or later, and a car with the BMW Apps option.
2. Add some videos to the iPhone via iTunes. Make sure they appear in your phone's Videos app. You can't access videos in third-party apps like YouTube, VLC, etc.
3. Connect the iPhone to your car via the 4/4S MEDIA cradle. The regular Music cradle will not work, nor will the USB cable.
4. Make sure you're stopped with the handbrake on. With DCT you may also need to be in Park, not sure.
5. Go to CD/Multimedia > External devices > Your phone.
6. Over on the left where you see a vertical stack of buttons for track skip, browsing your library, etc, you should see a button that says Videos. Select it.
7. Select a video. Once it starts playing, after a few seconds of no further input, the rest of the iDrive display will fade away to allow fullscreen viewing.
8. Enjoy watching videos for as long as you can stand just sitting in a parked M5 watching videos rather than actually driving or getting out of your car to carry on with your life....
