Hi - apologies if this has been asked before or elsewhere but I am at my wits end with this.
Several MKV video files on my network connected 4Tb Seagate external HD are stuttering and "buffering" when playing back via my LG Blu Ray player also connected to the same home network via ethernet. Nothing is connected wirelessly. Exact same file copied to my network connected PC plays without stuttering or "buffering" via same network connected LG Blu Ray player!?? It is a gigabyte network with gigabyte switches - 4Tb Seagate HD and LG Blu Ray player connected to same network via same router. It's almost as if retrieving the video file from Seagate HD causes it to "buffer" as if it were live streaming yet from PC HD it plays uninterrupted. I never used to have this issue but it has become increasingly common as time as gone on. At first I thought it was a possible codec issue with the LG Blu Ray player but after much re-encoding and trying various audio and video formats it doesn't appear to be a codec related issue. Smaller video files, i.e. below 720p resolution, don't seem to suffer the same "buffering" issue but the larger HD and UHD files seem to struggle more when played from the Seagate HD but are fine when played from my PC HD. How can I test if my 4Tb Seagate external network drive is okay or if it is starting to fail? Is there a defrag equivalent for a network drive?
Several MKV video files on my network connected 4Tb Seagate external HD are stuttering and "buffering" when playing back via my LG Blu Ray player also connected to the same home network via ethernet. Nothing is connected wirelessly. Exact same file copied to my network connected PC plays without stuttering or "buffering" via same network connected LG Blu Ray player!?? It is a gigabyte network with gigabyte switches - 4Tb Seagate HD and LG Blu Ray player connected to same network via same router. It's almost as if retrieving the video file from Seagate HD causes it to "buffer" as if it were live streaming yet from PC HD it plays uninterrupted. I never used to have this issue but it has become increasingly common as time as gone on. At first I thought it was a possible codec issue with the LG Blu Ray player but after much re-encoding and trying various audio and video formats it doesn't appear to be a codec related issue. Smaller video files, i.e. below 720p resolution, don't seem to suffer the same "buffering" issue but the larger HD and UHD files seem to struggle more when played from the Seagate HD but are fine when played from my PC HD. How can I test if my 4Tb Seagate external network drive is okay or if it is starting to fail? Is there a defrag equivalent for a network drive?