External HDD for Media Storage

I have a LaCie Rugged Mini 5TB External Hard Drive Portable HDD that I want to use as a media storage device. I originally had it formatted as NTFS but had the same problem (keep reading). I reformatted it as exFAT but the problem persist. The Xbox Media
Player reads the HDD and most of the files (there are over 3TB of media on it currently). However, in one of the folders it only reads about half of the video files. The files it does not read are the latter half of the files when in alphabetical order. The
files read fine on my PC. Those same files read fine on the Xbox when using a different WD 2TB HDD.

I am convinced it is not the LaCie HDD because the file read fine on my PC and through the USB port on my smart TV. But I prefer to use my Xbox because it reads more codex than my smart TV.

Any ideas or suggestions would be appriciated.

Basically you need a better codec not all codecs arecreated equal and sub codecs you get from non standardized sites may not be the best choice for.non pcs

Best option

Download super@ and batch run all your videos thru it to xbox format

If you format your HDD with the console you can only use it for Games and Apps'

To use an external HDD you can put your media files on it using your PC and will be used by your console as a music/video storage if you have a USB 2 HDD it will automatically be used as the media HDD remember you cannot mix Games/apps with media on the
same HDD.

Go into settings/system click on manage storage is your external showing there if it is click on it go to format.

If it doesn't show in manage storage plug it into computer/laptop and format plug back into console then do as above

Remember you cannot mix media files with games/apps media files need separate hdd/stick.

If your external HDD is partitioned for use as X1 storage, I'm fairly certain Media Player won't recognise it as a media storage device, and so won't be checking it for audio/video/image files. It'll basically be an extension of X1 storage.

The Media Player isn't all that great. I don't think it's even complete software. It does have 'preview' in the title still. lol I can only get the X1/Media Player to detect my tablet, phone, and laptop by using Universal Media Server, a free piece of software
that let's you organise what files can and can't be shared/streamed across devices.

If you Google you should find a free download. But that would mean you'd have to plug your external HDD into something other than your One, and have UMS set up to find it and make streaming content to the X1's Media Player a thing. =|

It is important to note you MUST install the game on the internal storage or the Xbox storage card

NOT any external hdd devices

To use optimized games

Are you installing on internal storage or external hdd