WD MyBook Essential NOT PLAYING VIDEO! [ Edited ]

[BradDibs]

I purchased a 1TB MyBook Essential for playing movies through my WD Media Player. Firstly, i formatted it to a Mac OS Journal to drag all my movies to it. Then, i plugged the hard drive to the media player and the media player to the TV. I selected a movie and then it went to a black screen with a blue rotating ring in the middle of it. I waited for about two minutes before i backed out and tried again. Still nothing. However long i wait nothing plays, whatever file i choose. 

Please tell me on how to fix this!

Thank You,

-Brad

[Joe_S]

Is it the correct format for your TV system? You may have better luck in one of the TV areas.

Joe

[Mabkay]

My Book Essentials is not designed to work on your application. If it is new, return the unit and get WD Elements for you. You may need to format any external drive with FAT32 formatting if you use directly with TV. Check the requirements of WD Media player before you decide on anything.

[RoofingGuy]

No, a My Book Essentials will work fine with a WDTV... I have 5 of the drives and 2 WDTVs.

The problem is likely to be that WD tells you that if you're connecting a HFS+ formatted drive that it needs to have Journaling disabled, or else the WDTV can't read it.

How to disable HFS+ Journaling on a Mac that is connected to a WD TV Media Player

Or else you tried to play a .mkv file that has compression in the headers.