GQUEUE
10-21-09, 10:49 AM
Wondering if anyone can help with this.
Have a new WD TV Live HD Network Media Player. Previously using Tversity with the HR20, Mediagate MG350HD and XBMC on Windows without any issuses. When I connect the WD and try to access Tversity, everything looks as expected except when I play AVIs (any DivX or Xvid), it would play a few seconds and then start to stutter. All other files like MPG and WMV played well.
OK, so my quick workaround was to simply transcode AVIs to MPGs/WMVs and get them to play. So I see that Tversity recognises the WD as a DSM-750. I edit the profiles.xml and find the section on the DSM-750. I change the transcoding target to be MPG and I delete all media types referring to AVI containers. I save my changes and restart Tversity. I then try to play an AVI file and it still tries to play it natively (ie. in the Tversity client, I can see no transcoding going on) and I get the stuttering.
Ultimately, I got it to work by changing the transcoding options to ALWAYS for both the SETTINGS and under the media library. Now when I play, it does indeed transcode and it plays properly on my WD TV Live.
So questions are:
1. Any idea why the AVIs won't play natively (as I believe the WD should be able to handle these)?
2. Any idea why my update of the profiles.xml did not force Tversity to transcode the files automatically?
I don't want to leave it like this because my other device do not always need the transcoding (except the HR20). I would prefer to set everything to ONLY WHEN NEEDED.
Any help is appreciated. Regards,
Have a new WD TV Live HD Network Media Player. Previously using Tversity with the HR20, Mediagate MG350HD and XBMC on Windows without any issuses. When I connect the WD and try to access Tversity, everything looks as expected except when I play AVIs (any DivX or Xvid), it would play a few seconds and then start to stutter. All other files like MPG and WMV played well.
OK, so my quick workaround was to simply transcode AVIs to MPGs/WMVs and get them to play. So I see that Tversity recognises the WD as a DSM-750. I edit the profiles.xml and find the section on the DSM-750. I change the transcoding target to be MPG and I delete all media types referring to AVI containers. I save my changes and restart Tversity. I then try to play an AVI file and it still tries to play it natively (ie. in the Tversity client, I can see no transcoding going on) and I get the stuttering.
Ultimately, I got it to work by changing the transcoding options to ALWAYS for both the SETTINGS and under the media library. Now when I play, it does indeed transcode and it plays properly on my WD TV Live.
So questions are:
1. Any idea why the AVIs won't play natively (as I believe the WD should be able to handle these)?
2. Any idea why my update of the profiles.xml did not force Tversity to transcode the files automatically?
I don't want to leave it like this because my other device do not always need the transcoding (except the HR20). I would prefer to set everything to ONLY WHEN NEEDED.
Any help is appreciated. Regards,