Is it possible to store HD videos in the app itself, making a folder named videos in the app, and play them in roku 3 video player? I mean just for the testing purpose , not releasing the app in the roku app store.
Even if it were theoretically possible, you’d have a hard time fitting an HD video, even after zipping, into the 2MB package size that you’re limited to. For testing purposes, why don’t you just install a free web server, like Apache, on your computer that can serve up the videos.
It would be possible to play a video from USB - a few people hooked up USB hard drives to their roku and used the USB channel app to play them that way.
Thanx beltown, will try that, if that is actually possible, it would really help me to test the app that I am developing. 
Or you could get an Amazon s3 account which is free for what you are doing. Until you have a volume of users downloading you will pay probably less than a dollar a month. That combined with the free s3 browser (pro version is 30 bucks well worth it). You will have a good testing environment. S3 can remain your content delivery if you feel that it’s adequate
