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#81 ·

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Originally Posted by pg_rider /forum/post/21052694


Does anyone know if this new box supports 96/24 FLAC files? Or does it still downsample them like the original WDTV Live?

Still downsamples. The only recent nod to those of us who use this for music playback was adding replaygain to it. Which is at least something positive for music lovers with large collections.
 
#82 ·

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Originally Posted by Cavalyr /forum/post/21054851


cant get that media library to work for me. have got pics for each movie on one hard drive. highlighting movie brings up the associated pic. just dont have any media info of course. hope i can figure this out.

Not sure what your issue is. Did you do "Get Content Info" on the movie? Or did you turn Content Collection to AUTO? (Default is OFF, if I recall).
 
#83 ·
WDFan1970...I have Media Library ON and Get Content Info on AUTO. Have tried it with Manual Only selected as well. When I have a movie highlighted, I push Options button on remote and Get Content Info does not appear as one of my choices. Thanks for the help. And does the name of the movie have to be a certain way? Got the movie 2012 named as 2012 (2009). THanks.
 
#84 ·
Any of you having trouble connecting to your shares via Network Shares (Samba)? I updated the firmware and can use Internet apps like YouTube, Netflix, etc., but the Live just doesn't see my network share (HPSERVER Windows Home Server). It sees it and PlayOn under Media Server, but that's UPnP. My PCH, PopBox and Boxee Box can all see my server fine via Samba.

Update: Was able to get it resolved. Rebotted my server and now the Live can see it. Weird. I like the new UI on this, especially after owning the original WD, Live and Live+. The scraper and views for movies/TV is okay; better than previous WD's, but not as good as Boxee, PCH/PopBox, etc. Unit is fairly fast and responsive.
 
#86 ·

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Originally Posted by Cavalyr /forum/post/0


WDFan1970...I have Media Library ON and Get Content Info on AUTO. Have tried it with Manual Only selected as well. When I have a movie highlighted, I push Options button on remote and Get Content Info does not appear as one of my choices. Thanks for the help. And does the name of the movie have to be a certain way? Got the movie 2012 named as 2012 (2009). THanks.

This is on a USB drive? Or NAS? Cuz it doesn't work on NAS.
 
#91 ·

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Originally Posted by IanD /forum/post/21055954


It concerns me that the review indicates separate PAL and NTSC models: surely by now all media players should be multi-standard.

That's always been true for the Live family. The specs show there are separate NTSC vs. PAL models for the n-Live , the Live+ and the Live Hub .
 
#92 ·
Having said that, in the manual it notes there's a reset button underneath the unit which, if held for 10 seconds, swaps between PAL and NTSC.


See page 8 of the booklet (page 13 of the pdf):

http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/librar...779-705062.pdf


It doesn't bother me - AV fans in the UK have had PAL equipment with NTSC capability for many years - but someone with a model in the states might want to give it a go.


Steve W
 
#93 ·

Quote:
Originally Posted by Brajesh /forum/post/21055259


Update: I like the new UI on this, especially after owning the original WD, Live and Live+. The scraper and views for movies/TV is okay; better than previous WD's, but not as good as Boxee, PCH/PopBox, etc. Unit is fairly fast and responsive.

If you don't have a local hard drive attached will it still scrape for file info on whatever sources you have (nas, other pc's, etc...)? Slightly confused about the scraping. If it were to do that then this would make it a very appealing player. Otherwise it would be slightly less appealing. Does it support idx/sub subtitles? I assume it doesn't have a fan?


philip
 
#95 ·

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Originally Posted by pmcd /forum/post/21056683


If you don't have a local hard drive attached will it still scrape for file info on whatever sources you have (nas, other pc's, etc...)? Slightly confused about the scraping. If it were to do that then this would make it a very appealing player. Otherwise it would be slightly less appealing. Does it support idx/sub subtitles? I assume it doesn't have a fan?


philip

Nope network shares do not work with scraping your content to the library but raphaelwd on page 2 stated they are working on this. Scraping currently only works with USB HDD's.
 
#96 ·

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Originally Posted by Pecker /forum/post/21056726


I have all of my films in their own folder and with a jpg attached.


If I 'scrape' will it delete these, or replace them, or what?


Steve W

That's a great question as I have put alot of time into getting my poster collection together. When they do implement this on network shares I hope they have this in mind. Maybe later today I will put a couple of movies on a USB HDD and see what it does if I already have a folder.jpg there and let you know.


Updated:

When I scanned a thumbdrive with The Time Travelers Wife on it, it did not delete my folder.jpg. It looks to store thumbs in .wd_tv/thumb on the root of the drive in 7 different sizes. In the movie folder itself it added "The Time Travelers Wife.metathumb" which is the movie poster and a folder called ".The Time Travelers Wife.backdrop" which contains seven backdrops and "The Time Travelers Wife.xml" which contains all of the movie info and then seems to link to the following for thumbs and backdrops:


http://cf1.imgobject.com/posters/c0c/4d6b7b997b9aa132fe000c0c/the-time-traveler-s-wife-cover.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/posters/02a/4c92a9e15e73d62ffb00002a/the-time-traveler-s-wife-cover.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/posters/4c2/4bc9617b017a3c57fe02c4c2/the-time-traveler-s-wife-cover.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/posters/fee/4d7a76397b9aa11a14000fee/the-time-traveler-s-wife-cover.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/posters/cf8/4d605cf77b9aa154cf003cf8/the-time-traveler-s-wife-cover.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/posters/842/4caadd407b9aa17aca000842/the-time-traveler-s-wife-cover.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/posters/160/4cadd09b7b9aa11b3d000160/the-time-traveler-s-wife-cover.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/posters/ed4/4daad2d75e73d634b4000ed4/the-time-traveler-s-wife-cover.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/posters/762/4dd667ae7b9aa147d9000762/the-time-traveler-s-wife-cover.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/posters/1b7/4df22a315e73d642b30011b7/the-time-traveler-s-wife-cover.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/posters/233/4e4c0d675e73d64c37000233/the-time-traveler-s-wife-cover.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/backdrops/4ba/4bc9617a017a3c57fe02c4ba/the-time-traveler-s-wife-poster.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/backdrops/4ae/4bc96179017a3c57fe02c4ae/the-time-traveler-s-wife-poster.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/backdrops/4b6/4bc9617a017a3c57fe02c4b6/the-time-traveler-s-wife-poster.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/backdrops/4b2/4bc96179017a3c57fe02c4b2/the-time-traveler-s-wife-poster.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/backdrops/4be/4bc9617b017a3c57fe02c4be/the-time-traveler-s-wife-poster.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/backdrops/041/4c9427107b9aa10d5a000041/the-time-traveler-s-wife-poster.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/backdrops/03a/4c9427437b9aa10d5b00003a/the-time-traveler-s-wife-poster.jpg


It left my folder.jpg untouched. I have to say I am really impressed as it lists all movie info, has a nice poster and then on top of that scrolls through 7 backdrops on the selected movie.


Update 2:

Some good news, I copied over "The Time Travelers Wife.metathumb" and ".The Time Travelers Wife.backdrop" and "The Time Travelers Wife.xml" to that movies folder on my NAS drive and then went to network storage and found that movie and clicked on it and to my surprise I was presented with poster, movie info, and backdrops. Please note that the only way I could get this to work was by switching views to the one where it lists all your movies at the bottom of the screen and you scroll through them left to right. It seems half broken though as you get no info until you press enter on the folder itself, just highlighting the folder gives no movie info in the fields above.
 
#97 ·

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Originally Posted by foxnews /forum/post/21055819


just updated to the new firmware 1.03.10 and now netflix kept crashing. if I select netflix, wdtv shutdowns and restart. I can't access to the dashboard by pressing down navigation key anymore.


anyone have this issue? or is it just me?

I'm curious... what was the version that was SHIPPED on your device? 1.03.10 definately disables the MEDIA LIBRARY for NAS boxes (and thus the Dashboard). I watched netflix all night last night with no issues at all..


Quote:
Originally Posted by IanD /forum/post/21055954


It concerns me that the review indicates separate PAL and NTSC models: surely by now all media players should be multi-standard.

They are all multi-standard. It's just indicating which standard is active when it comes out of the box... The mode can be changed by pressing the reset button for 10 seconds.


It's been like that for every WD TV box made...
 
#98 ·

Quote:
Originally Posted by pmcd /forum/post/21056683


If you don't have a local hard drive attached will it still scrape for file info on whatever sources you have (nas, other pc's, etc...)? Slightly confused about the scraping. If it were to do that then this would make it a very appealing player. Otherwise it would be slightly less appealing. Does it support idx/sub subtitles? I assume it doesn't have a fan?


philip

No, it won't scrape NAS...YET. It will in the future according to WD. I can't wait for that, I hope it's not too long!


Yes, it supports SUB/IDX (aka VOBSUB), and no, no fan.

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Originally Posted by nfodiz /forum/post/21056952


That's a great question as I have put alot of time into getting my poster collection together. When they do implement this on network shares I hope they have this in mind. Maybe later today I will put a couple of movies on a USB HDD and see what it does if I already have a folder.jpg there and let you know.

I know for a fact that it won't replace XML that users generate themselves.


I had hundreds of movies that the HUB scraped JPGs and XML for, and those are IMPORTED instead of REPLACED. But I don't know what happens if ONLY the JPG is present.
 
#99 ·

Quote:
Originally Posted by nfodiz /forum/post/21056952


That's a great question as I have put alot of time into getting my poster collection together. When they do implement this on network shares I hope they have this in mind. Maybe later today I will put a couple of movies on a USB HDD and see what it does if I already have a folder.jpg there and let you know.


Updated:

When I scanned a thumbdrive with The Time Travelers Wife on it, it did not delete my folder.jpg. It looks to store thumbs in .wd_tv/thumb on the root of the drive in 7 different sizes. In the movie folder itself it added "The Time Travelers Wife.metathumb" which is the movie poster and a folder called ".The Time Travelers Wife.backdrop" which contains seven backdrops and "The Time Travelers Wife.xml" which contains all of the movie info and then seems to link to the following for thumbs and backdrops:


http://cf1.imgobject.com/posters/c0c/4d6b7b997b9aa132fe000c0c/the-time-traveler-s-wife-cover.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/posters/02a/4c92a9e15e73d62ffb00002a/the-time-traveler-s-wife-cover.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/posters/4c2/4bc9617b017a3c57fe02c4c2/the-time-traveler-s-wife-cover.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/posters/fee/4d7a76397b9aa11a14000fee/the-time-traveler-s-wife-cover.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/posters/cf8/4d605cf77b9aa154cf003cf8/the-time-traveler-s-wife-cover.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/posters/842/4caadd407b9aa17aca000842/the-time-traveler-s-wife-cover.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/posters/160/4cadd09b7b9aa11b3d000160/the-time-traveler-s-wife-cover.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/posters/ed4/4daad2d75e73d634b4000ed4/the-time-traveler-s-wife-cover.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/posters/762/4dd667ae7b9aa147d9000762/the-time-traveler-s-wife-cover.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/posters/1b7/4df22a315e73d642b30011b7/the-time-traveler-s-wife-cover.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/posters/233/4e4c0d675e73d64c37000233/the-time-traveler-s-wife-cover.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/backdrops/4ba/4bc9617a017a3c57fe02c4ba/the-time-traveler-s-wife-poster.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/backdrops/4ae/4bc96179017a3c57fe02c4ae/the-time-traveler-s-wife-poster.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/backdrops/4b6/4bc9617a017a3c57fe02c4b6/the-time-traveler-s-wife-poster.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/backdrops/4b2/4bc96179017a3c57fe02c4b2/the-time-traveler-s-wife-poster.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/backdrops/4be/4bc9617b017a3c57fe02c4be/the-time-traveler-s-wife-poster.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/backdrops/041/4c9427107b9aa10d5a000041/the-time-traveler-s-wife-poster.jpg
http://cf1.imgobject.com/backdrops/03a/4c9427437b9aa10d5b00003a/the-time-traveler-s-wife-poster.jpg


It left my folder.jpg untouched. I have to say I am really impressed as it lists all movie info, has a nice poster and then on top of that scrolls through 7 backdrops on the selected movie.


Update 2:

Some good news, I copied over "The Time Travelers Wife.metathumb" and ".The Time Travelers Wife.backdrop" and "The Time Travelers Wife.xml" to that movies folder on my NAS drive and then went to network storage and found that movie and clicked on it and to my surprise I was presented with poster, movie info, and backdrops. Please note that the only way I could get this to work was by switching views to the one where it lists all your movies at the bottom of the screen and you scroll through them left to right. It seems half broken though as you get no info until you press enter on the folder itself, just highlighting the folder gives no movie info in the fields above.

Many thanks.


Can you clarify, when you say "...I was presented with poster, movie info, and backdrops" do you mean moviesheets?


Steve W
 
#101 ·

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Originally Posted by nfodiz /forum/post/21057283


Basically looks like a movie sheet to me. The backdrop pic changes to a new one every couple of seconds. Here is a somewhat crappy pic to give you an idea...

wow. exactly what i am looking for. i got some covers for each movie i painstakingly downloaded for each movie on one hdd. but might be tempted to move some movies to a ext hdd and then back if it gets me the info like that. most nice.
 
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