Box won't play video previously viewed

**purelithium** · January 14th, 2011, 06:47 PM

Today my box started acting up. I left it paused in the middle of a video, all day as I usually do. I come back to it being "offline". I reboot the router, check network settings, get it reconnected. I play video for a little bit more, but it exits out of the video after it seemingly runs out of buffer(this is normal, It's because the NAS' harddrives were spun down and not able to serve the file quick enough for Boxee). So I restart the video, attempt to finish it, it keeps buffering. Plays about 10 seconds then exits like before. OK, so I reboot the box. Now it either won't play the video or it says it's an unsupported format or corrupted.

I know these files aren't corrupted. I even tested out files that I've played before with this box. No dice.

What's wrong?

**darcilicious** · January 14th, 2011, 07:23 PM

Sounds like an either an iffy network connection (is the box wireless or wired connection-wise?) maybe...

What about a different video file? Or an online video source?

**purelithium** · January 14th, 2011, 07:26 PM

Same thing, rotating blue thingy until i hit the menu button on my remote to bring it back. Tried CityTV, I'm copying some files onto an SD card to see if having something locally will help.

**purelithium** · January 14th, 2011, 07:31 PM

Having a file on an SD card didn't work, just the rotating blue "wait, i'm doing something" dealie.

**darcilicious** · January 14th, 2011, 07:33 PM

In your shoes, I'd be tempted to do a factory restore (without doing the "reset settings"), and update from there...

The only other possible thing to try first (complete shot in the dark) is to power off the box, remove the power card, wait several seconds, plug the cord back in and power up the box.