Western Digital - WD TV HD Media Player - BUG LIST & FEATURE REQUEST thread - Page 9

Just watched a 720p video yesterday from start to finish... want to say again if I didn't say it before that when this thing works, it is very great.

I agree that having the option button go back to the options menu would be a great use of it in normal menu circumstances. Going back through 4 subdirectories is kind of annoying.

Yes the image on my is also way darker as well, I just recalibrate that HDMI since someone suggested that each HDMI may have it's own setting's, but it resulted pretty much in the same numbers I originally had for settings. Yes I also notice the image is way darker as well. I am able to lighten the image, but it is still substantially dark, almost all details are lost in the shadows.

After upgrade of Firmware I have an error I never had with first original Firmware. I see on this Forum that user "megaman1" is reporting the same description.
Following is the text description I have sent to WD to describe the error:

"I have upgraded the Firmware to 1.01.01 then to 1.01.02 correctly (I see the improvements available with these new releases) .
I can see correctly as before movies with standard definition, when I see video with 720p definition I get (about 6-10 times in a hour) a video error the video screen becomes almost completely green (with big green squares moving) . This error never happened with the same video files with the first firmware but happens both with 1.01.01 and after last upgrade with 1.01.02 . To solve the problem I need to go some seconds before or after the point where the video goes in error then start playing again. This is a severe problem that never happened with the original firmware." The same video worked correctly with the first original firmware and on a computer system.

Don't know if its possible but VP6 Codec support for .flv container would be nice.

Just press the home button

Surely the clock icon is for the list of last selected files in each category. i.e. Photo, Movie, or Music. I think the clock is an excellent feature. Especially when 2 of you are using the unit and need to go back to your last half watched movie. oops this comment is for big jerk

Hi, I have WD HD attached via HDMI to HDTV. I add movie files (.avi + ac3) to the ext HD and reconnect it. I start the ext HD and then WD HD and use folder view to browse to the file and play it. The video plays but not the audio. This usually is fixed if I switch off WD HD and restart it. I usually switch off the WD HD and not eject the HD drive when I switch off and restart. Has anyone had similar problem? I like this machine but this bug is annoying.

+1 here. "Mark as watched" and delete capabilities would be awesome.

While I also think that fixing bugs should take precedent over adding new features I'm adding these requests since one isnt listed on the first page and because I also think they should have been featured by the WD right from the start:

• idx/sub subitle support
  These are the original subtitle pics ripped from DVD therefore they support all foreign language characters! Positioning and colouring is always correct and best of all: no OCR hassle!
  
  
• ifo support
  DVDs have been around for ages, how come a mediaplayer cannot support their native format properly?

Try looking in the "recent" tab. I only noticed it last night, it list all the files that you have recently played.

Thanks erdie, but I have over 400 videos on my drive and I use it everyday. Looking through the recent is not very helpful.

Hello there, I am a new user, I bough the WD before Christmas. My configuration is WD-HDMI-YAMAHARXV463-Panasonic42PZ80FullHD.
I must say I am pretty satisfied, especially because of the cheap price and the feature of playing MKVs.
What i don't like is the way it handles the MP3 files. It does not play an album by track number, but alphabetically. Bad!
Whatsmore everything is alphabetically-driven and not directory-tree driven.
Bad is also that if you choose "by author" he does not show you all the albums of the author, but all the files of him!!! really bad.

What I really miss is a file-handling like Itunes, or anyway more appropriate.

Anyone thinks it could be a included in a firmware upgrade ?

Thank you,

I purchased one of these a couple of days ago, and emailed support about the lack of menu support for .iso rips of dvds (before I'd spotted this thread).

This is the not very encouraging response I received:


I'm wondering if it is worth the effort of responding to the email to point out that .iso is and works perfectly, apart from the lack of menu and chapter support?

Let's just hope it's not this guy who is looking at the feature list for future fw upgrades.

ISOs are not supported and they never said they were in any of there literature, so I think you don't have much of a case in emailing them back. But the good thing is that obviously they have done some work to get ISOs to work. Hopefully this means they are planning on adding support in the future.

Folder.jpg support!!! So i can see my thumbs!

left and right button remote page up / down.

To WD Scott, check this out: xbmc.org/home/ (Better good stolen, than bad designed!)

I bought the WD TV because my xbox classic doesen't support HD.
But the interface and practic use of xbmc is SUPER!!

I love my WD now, but it need to be tweaked!

Yeah, maybe they should add additional Movie Information and Folder Support. When everything is stored in a small XML File you can build an application on pc that updates this data via the internet imdb, after that bring it back to the harddrive and the WD TV presents your data back on screen.

folder.jpg is a good idea, but what if you have a TV show series all in one folder? Wouldn't you want each individual file to have their own pictures? My idea was to treat the jpg like a srt subtitle file, where if you rename it to the name of the movie file, then it will automagically know where to go as a thumbnail. Then, you could always change it if you wanted to. If you had it embedded, that would be fine, but any jpg image you made would override it.

edit: wildpash makes a good point if you wanted something more dynamic though... having the user go through this trouble would be really unintuitive.

I would hope that if they considered a version 2 of this box with ethernet, they would have this sort of tagging support. I'll stay tuned.

I just brought my unit to a friends house for a demo. I think they are going to buy one now. The one thing I want on my wish list is for it to decode bluray hd sound and let a non hd receiver play the sound on when I play back up bluray files. Right now some movies have no sound when played.

I sincerely hope they are not planning on removing .vob and .iso support from future firmware releases as I'm in the process of pulling merged vobs off my DVDs to maintain the highest possible quality. That's just speculation on my part. I'm hoping they will improve vob/iso support with the next release and that the response you received was a valid response based on existing knowledge and not what is due for release soon.

If iso/vobs do become officially supported I hope there is a way to add cover art to these files (something already suggested here).

Well I just re-checked at the WD knowledgebase and you are correct. .TS support was added in the last firmware update so my .vobs should be safe with any future firmware update.

I have a quick question. Do I need to apply firmware version 1.01.01 first then 1.01.02? or just version 1.01.02?

Thanks,

your question is OFF-TOPIC here. It's answered here (WDTV wiki site), and for further discussion I suggest this thread

Actually, ScottWD posted on the MacWorld forum 2.5 months ago, saying that VOB, ISO and folder_ts are supported. (I suppose by folder_ts, he meant ripped DVD in audio_ts & video_ts folders). So yeah, I'd recommend you to continue your conversation with Support.

ScottWD,

This has been mentioned many times before, but can you let us know your take on providing support for USB WiFi Adapters

this is for streaming or at the very least, transfer videos wirelessly to ext.hdd which is connected to the wd tv...

thanks..awaiting your reply...

I believe a "real" photo viewing mode would really make a lot of people happy:

1) Reprocessing of photo on zoom: I think this might be considered a "bug of choice" but as far as I can see, WDTV processes the photos only once when loading to fit on the screen, and then when you zoom in, it zooms into the "scaled-down-&-extremely-sharpened" picture instead of the original file, generating a blurred, upscaled-back output whereas the original file has enough data to fill the screen. Nowadays even many cell phones come with 2.0MP + cameras. Full HD resolution is 2 MP only. So most of the time, when you are viewing a picture/photo, it is scaled down to fit your tv screen (even if it is 1080p) and you don't see the full detail. When you zoom in, you should be getting less downscaling hence moving closer to the original resolution of the picture until you reach %100 (no scaling - the best quality). Only past that point upscaling should start.

And while you are at it, please remove the dreadful sharpening...

Notes: There is an option in the photo settings called "keep as original", but does not work for pictures bigger than the screen and for anyone with a digital camera or a decent cell phone, this is the case all the time.

I have seen this "shortcut" also on other devices. Samsung upscaling DVD player does the same trick, where as if you use the same photos directly on the tv's card reader, you get the perfect "real" picture, albeit being much slower. But there is no point in zooming in if you are not going to see more detail...

2) Zoom buttons: Using two of the buttons for instant zoom in/out instead of going through the menus would be a life saver.

3) Pan buttons: Entering the pan mode instantly once the zoom is active and using the cursor keys for panning would also be perfect (no more menus please).

4) Zoom map: This might be overkill but a little navigation map on zoom would make this complete (a little presentation at the corner marking which part of the picture is actually being viewed)

This is wishful thinking! DV needs a dedicated hardware decoder whose implementation requires to be licensed and paid dearly to Sony...it also cannot be done in software since WD doesn't have a strong multi-purpose processor...get a DVD rekorder with HDMI out to watch your DV tapes...

OH, and Central European subtitle coding support (codepage 1250) ASAP please!

It does appear to me that 1080/24p output is not happening at the expected 23.976 frame rate, resulting in 1 dropped video frame every 41.7 seconds. It is very hard to see this.

decode DTS-HD y DD - True HD to multi pcm channel by hdmi

Has WD Support been made aware of this thread? That is, has anybody sent the URL of this thread to WD Support? They probably have their own bug list, but it would be nice if they can incorporate some of the bugs reported in this thread into their own list.

A few pages back, ScottWD confirmed they do read this one...