I've seen this happen over the years that some encoded video will lock up a player. You may have to clean off the drive and start over.
The comment about the computers and other drive is interesting but since this is not a PC, we are left with going with what works. I've yet to see anyone offer support when this happens. You get told to start over or change drives.
I've been using a 2TB WD Elements external hard drive formatted NTFS to play movies off of my TV for years, and all of a sudden it's no longer working. The tv still recognizes the drive, but when I select "videos" to to browse through the hard drive and watch a video it just loads... forever. I plugged the drive into my computer and it seems fine, shows up instantly and everything can be played off of it. I ran disk utility in mac, and on win7 and both came up with no errors. I tried renaming the drive, and deleting the 'system volume information' and '.cmdb' and '.cm0012' files as I thought maybe the tv stored a corrupt file in there, but it didn't help. I've tried all 3 usb ports on my tv to no avail. I also tried a different external drive I have (seagate 2tb) and it works just fine. I just tried reseting the tv to factory settings, and it still doesn't work. Anyone have any idea what is going on? I just don't understand why the tv sees the drive but it isn't able to load it, while it shows up on both of my computers AND my tv plays movies off of another drive formatted to the same file system just fine.... Thanks for reading!

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