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I have decided I will return the WDTV Live. I really want to like it. Even with the cheapo dated interface. But I can't get 1080MKV to play smoothly. And that was the main reason I purchased it.

I can see the various networked shares without a problem. It plays streamed from my NAS or Mac or Windows PC. But a couple of minutes in, it gets choppy and I lose sound. This is all over a 100Mbps wired ethernet connection. Even had issues with standard def stuff that my modded original Xbox with XBMC is able to run silky smooth.

When the same media is copied to a local USB HD and plugged into the WDTV directly, it does a lot better. But still occassionally stutter. I am connected via HDMI to a LCDTV. I even tried forcing HDMI 1080P@60, @24, etc. But none of the mode improved the issue any. Seems like there's a lot of power in the little box, but the software is holding it back.

So for my purposes, the WDTV Live doesn't cut it. I will have to wait for a nice XMBC solution.

When I added wdtv to my harmony it didn't make OK a button... It only added "enter" as a custom button at the top. I added OK and assigned all the functions available to regular buttons.

Friends
is WDTV live is better than Popcorn А-110 for MKV playing .
POpcorn A-110 can play max ~ 50 Mbts MKV files ( by lan using My ihome and static IP).
what is maximum Mbts in WDTV live by lan or from USB hard ?

After a frustrating time with Network shares, I can confirm (amazingly) that the WD TV Live simply won't show any shares with names starting lower down in the alphabet (this is using Windows 7). No matter what I did, only around half of my network shares would work, but following a comment by a previous poster, I decided to rename my shares A1, A2 etc and magically they now ALL work.

This is certainly a weird bug, but I'm sure it will be picked up on soon in a future firmware.

Quick question - is there any way to set up various resolution settings (like the PCH) i.e 24fps 1080p etc? Currently it just seems to be set to auto and I cant see where to change it.

I'm in a similar boat, but with certain MP4 files. And, worst of all, I've had a support ticket open with WD since Saturday evening and have yet to hear a peep out of them.

So, per the terms of what I wrote them in my support ticket, they've got til EOB today (Thurs) or I'll be taking this unit back to Best Buy and returning it as "doesn't work as advertised". I found out I'm in the next batch of PCH C-200s, so I'll just use that instead.

Can you copy PC to hard drive via the network connection too, or only stream from local network?

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If you're using Harmony, the 'Add Device' for WDTV is Media Center PC --> We Digital --> WDTV. All the buttons are mapped there.

Does the WDTV Live support png movie coverart or only jpg?

Does WD TV Live support BD ISO playback ?

[quote=daryoon;17397939]I have decided I will return the WDTV Live. I really want to like it. Even with the cheapo dated interface. But I can't get 1080MKV to play smoothly. And that was the main reason I purchased it.

I can see the various networked shares without a problem. It plays streamed from my NAS or Mac or Windows PC. But a couple of minutes in, it gets choppy and I lose sound. This is all over a 100Mbps wired ethernet connection. Even had issues with standard def stuff that my modded original Xbox with XBMC is able to run silky smooth.QUOTE]

Try TVersity. Like others, I could NOT use Network Shares. I'm using a 100 Mbps wired network. I then experimented with "Share with TVersity". Voila!

All my PC-connected drives with full M2TS Blu-Ray rips are seen and play fast and flawlessly. No stuttering/ hesitation, etc !

Can anyone point to a tutorial on how to set up TVersity to work w/ WDTVLive?
I used a long time ago for another media streamer, but it has been a while...

Running Win XP Pro sp3 here.

It's very straight forward. Just install TVersity. Then right click on your designated folders "Share with TVersity". In WD-TV Live/Video/Media Streamers you'll see TVersity as one of the options. Drill down and you'll note TVersity's myriad options....eg., movies/all/tag/folders, etc. Works beautifully !!

newbie here and yes, I did a search. Even read through this entire thread and still can't figure out why my wd live won't show thumbnails. The image is resize to 120x180 px using resizeimg. I have a print screen here , can someone please tell me what im doing wrong? thanks in advance

hmm...those look to be correctly done.

Thanks will check it out this evening.

Have you chosen thumbnails mode in WDTV Live video settings?

Thanks for the recommendation Pilnort. My only issue with TVersity is that it does transcoding of the files. I was hoping for a solution that will play the files directly as they are. I will give Tveristy a try again with the option to Not convet my media and see how that goes. But otherwise, if I want transcoding, I could just use my PS3.

It would have been nice to just connect to my central NAS and play movie files off of there without the need to piggyback off my computer running Tversity or Playon. It just feels more a patch for the WDTV Live in all honesty.

-Daryoon

yes , i tried thumbnail and preview mode. Reset the unit also ...Spent half the day yesterday trying to figure it out. Time to take some anger management class because i feel like picking this piece of **** up and throw it at the wall lol

Not a problem. When you elect to "share with TVersity", in the options details you elect to "NEVER" transcode. Obviously, I chose that for the Blu-ray rips; I also choose that option for std. def. VOB files as the WD-TV box does a superb job. A side benefit of NO transcoding, is that the CPU utlization with TVersity streaming that data is minimal (3-10%).

I notice that your files and jpg's are on an ext. drive. Are you network connected to your pc ?

If so, see if thumbnails appear from your pc shares.

Hi guys. I'm a noob. Just got a Panasonic 54" plasma G setup and think that the wife is going to get me the WDTV Live for my birthday (today).

After reading some here, I see that external HDD attached to the WDTV Live can be seen and accessed as a NAS of sorts. This fact makes me rethink my previous plans. Anyone have any thoughts:

Old Plan: buy internal BluRay drive and internal 2TB HDD for my desktop PC (in another room), store backups on the 2TB drive and stream via wired network to the Live.

Maybe New Plan: buy internal BluRay drive for PC and external 2TB HDD for the Live. Connect the 2TB drive to the Live, and then backup BluRay disks across network to the 2TB drive.

Sounds like people here have some problems with both configurations (USB HDD shut off, or can't see share on PC).

Which is easier? Which is better?

No experience, but from reading, I'd go with the new plan unless you are planning to use the 2TB for something other than just movie rips. It's the playback that is speed/latency sensitive, and removing the network from the equation (and allowing for the networking issues some folks are experiencing) I think you'd be simplifying your life considerable. Plus you don't need the PC on to watch the movie.

The downside is you need the WDTV turned on to share with the PC (probably not a big deal) and access to the drive will potentially be slower (but so what?).

I transfer all my files to an external harddrive and connect it to the live player. Im not connected to the network with my pc . I guess i can go figure out how to do this. But what if it does or does not show the thumbnails after connecting to the network? what i do then ? thanks for your help

Thanks for verifying that, b-rad. I'll keep tabs on your firmware updates and look forward to testing it when you've gotten it solved.

I would contact WD for help of course, but if you have the time you should read through this thread (I know it's long ) and see if you can find the solution.

Quite a few people are/were having thumbnail problems.

I have my WDTVLive connected to external 1TB drive, and wirelessly to my PC.
I don't use network to stream WDTVLive , but just to transfer vid & music files to the external connected hdd. All thumbnails works in this manner.

Mine have worked from the start but one day just quit out of the blue. I unplugged the device from socket, waited about a minute and plugged it back in and now it works fine. Must be some internal cache I reset by doing this.

May not be of importance but I did notice some of your files from the image have no extension, some just end with a ".", and some filenames have "." as a divider (Independence.Day.jpg/mkv). Maybe that's fouling it up somehow...

Other than that, looks like my drive does so it should be working.

maybe you can try and delete the wdtv folder on your hard disk then reattach your hard disk to the wdtv.