I cannot for the life of me get the Project videos to play and need help

Hello fellow force wielders,

I am close to losing my mind and need some help. So, I have copies of both the noDNR and DNR matroska video files for all 3 movies (Wmpire is obviously just the beta) as well as the despecialized versions for good measure. I have been trying to watch them the last week or so, and keep running into problems.

First the Plex server. While I’ll probably receive grief for this, I am running a Plex server from an old Mac which hasn’t had any real lag issues thus far, but for whatever reason (probably due to the size of the video files themselves) it is buffering every 30 seconds or so.

Next I tried formatting two different 1TB+ external hard drives - one as exFAT and one as NTFS (because I have a newer Hisense tv and those are the only drive formats it can read video files on). These do not play on either.

The NTFS drive says file not supported for the MKV vids, and the other just doesn’t play. Needless to say, I’m about to lose my mind and could really use some help.

My other (less likely) thought is that I keep quick wiping/formatting these drives so maybe because of left over sectors or whatever it’s not properly working. But I feel like that’s not the issue…My next step is actually wiping the drive properly and maybe trying the 1080p files but I’m pretty beyond myself at this point. Any help is greatly appreciated

If you have any sort of decent graphics card you could run an HDMI cable from PC to TV and use PC to drive playback.

I’ve had success watching via portable solid state drives. Not USB thumb drives, but the terabyte portables. Just got to make sure the read/write speeds are good enough for video.

I just plug it into my ROKU ultra USB port and use the media player on there, or plug it into the USB port of my UHD Blu Ray player and watch it from there.

The UHD Blu Ray player allowed me to select the various audio tracks, I have not figured out how to do that with Roku’s built in media player.