Freezes during movies

I can't explain it. Everytime I play a movie it freezes after the first few seconds and I have to reset. I can't play any movie without this happening. Playing music seems fine but only happens when I play movies. It just started doing this today.

I did a restore thinking it might have been the software but it is still doing it.

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