Watching videos in the car off USB stick ~ Need direction

We have the new iPad 32GB without phone, version 6.1.3. I have a Lightning to USB camera adapter and a few USB sticks lying around.... I have a significant Movie collection on an HTPC on our home network and would like to move some of these for the kids for a trip we'll be taking soon..
I attempted to load an MKV file onto a 2GB USB stick, stored in a DCIM folder and renamed the movie to DCS_0001 and then also tried PICT_0001. In each case I then connected the USB stick to the cable and then the cable to the ipad. The photo app loads but then tells me that there are no photos to import.
Am i doing this right?
Any help or suggestions?
TIA.
Regards,

It can be done, but not easily. I've had the best luck with using SD cards. Most USB sticks trigger the 'too much power' warning. Your videos do have to be the precise format, MP4 and you can't view them off the card, you have to import them onto your device, open via the photos app which will then open the video app and play the video. Also, maybe mine were made wrong, but since there are no names on the files, I had nothing but black thumbnails so had to guess import.
So it can work, but it's a lot of hoops to jump through. If you're going to be using it as a kid distraction tool, then I'd go for easy, which would be the drive James suggested. If you need to convert formats, Handbrake is a good conversion tool. mpegstreamclip also works well, as does format factory (that one is PC only)

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