Are you accessing the videos from File Manager and trying to open from there? If so, that is the problem (actualy a bug in File Manager). When clicking on the video from file manager it should request to open in media-player not import via the content-hub.
To work around you can use the gallery or video scope. Both should show the contents of the SD card and allow you to play the video without it being copied On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 8:22 AM, Marcos Alonso <corro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi again guys. > > I often use the phone to watch movies thus I store these on the SD and I > play these with the media player (by the way, easier with OTA 10!). > > I have realized that when I do so, a local copy (...phablet/Videos) of the > movies is stored! > > I do not want to use the mobile memory to store such kind of data. > > Is that behaviour normal / needed? > > Can it be disabled? > > When I launched the media player from the command line that did not happen. > > As well for some othe files and applications it has the same behaviour > (i.e. Local copies of txt files when opening with editor or so). > > Thanks for your support. > > Regards. > Marcos > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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