Western Digital - WD TV Live Media Player (WDTV2) - Page 116

There's only been one update for the WDTV Live (not including the failed 1.01.12 update).

Oh...that's interesting. From 1.01.00 to 1.01.11 would seem like many update sequences but evidently not. It certainly explains why I couldn't find any information I searched for about versions .01-.10.

Not 100% sure, but perhaps this addon might help:
http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewto...p?f=47&t=33848

otherwise perhaps the readyDLNA addon might help from the same forum.

MP4 Issue

It has become a problem for me also, whenever I put on a mp4 (the same ones that played just fine on my WDTV1) wont play at all on my WDTV live.
Tonight I was watching a movie until all the stutter/jutter issues appeared with an mp4, so I turned the unit off and on and let it sit turned on for a while and then tried the file again and still encountered the stutter issue. So I unplugged my WDTV Live and hooked up my WDTV1 and the SAME file plays flawless.

This has been an issue now for sometime that I know Dregg first reported and I confirmed and others doubted and stated it is just a bad rip, and now it appears more members are seeing this happen. But lately I have encountered numerous MP4 files that either stutter/jutter or are not scanable as in they either cant fast forward or cant rewind and a few that would not even play all of these same said files play flawless on WDTV1.
Its gone from a little issue to a real headache and I hope WD will work harder on some firmware fix. I need it!!

Just want to add this because my thread will be pushed down really soon:
Problem i had:

I added a 4gb mkv onto my 250gb passport. That file made the total used space 76%. The WDTV Live no longer mounts my passport.

Solution:

Right, well after deleting 10GB of important movies off of the passport the WDTV Live now sees the drive. Still took over 1 min to mount.

So that is really lame, if my drive gets over 75% full the WDTV Live wont read it.

THIS REALLY NEEDS TO BE FIXED ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mine does this sometimes. Go to Setting --> System Setting, scroll down and reset to factory defaults. Now your HDD will mount quickly. When you restore you setting from here, just apply the minimum to get it working, i.e. wireless settings, auto login and resolution.

Not sure what causes this, but it does need to be fixed.

It does actually. As long as even one lazy ass refraines from asking the same question over again that's already been answered and uses the search, everyone is better off.

I also use several 250gb drives. I filled it up, and it gave an error and said it needed 1.2gb of space to index. I removed a file to allow 1.2 gb's, and it was happy again. So, you only need 1.2GB's of empty space on a drive to index. That's a far cry from needing 25% free....

Hey, i'm new to this forum, as i happened to find this thread through google while looking on how to solve my problem.

I just bought a WD TV Media Player Live yesterday, and decided to check for updates right away.
I saw that update 1.01.11 update was available, so i followed the instructions and updated it via USB.
Now, my player doesn't work anymore, at all.
I've tried everything, the reset button, unplugging it, nothing works.
It shuts off when i unplug it (obviously), but automatically turns back on when i plug it, and doesn't shut off with the remote control.

Is there a solution to this problem? Or do i have to call WD?

Hi,

got the WD Live a while now and I am not able to delete ANY files out of the WD over network shares, tried on my NAS (Synology), a MacBook Pro and a XP and Vista PC...the WD always tells me that the file is write protected, which of course it is NOT. (Checked all files and they are read/write to all users).

Anybody ever managed to delete a file on a network share? I am always logged in with the respective Computer login giving all priviledges so that can be excluded as a reason.

Thanks!

LOL. You should swap with geircito who has the exact opposite problem. He wants to prevent network users from deleting files in WDTV Live shares.


I do it all the time from Windows XP computers on the network.

Wierd

Well, of course i have no problem in deleting files from any other device...it's just from the WD that does not let me delete them...strange strange since there are no settings I could possibly change on the WD.....hmmm.

I have no HDD attached to the Wd I am just takling about SMB shares and files on that shares.....

Oh, I misunderstood. I thought you were trying to delete files that were on a drive connected to the WDTV Live's USB port (from other computers on the network). That is what I do all the time. I've never tried deleting files from network shares using the WDTV Live's file management UI. I just tried it and was unable to delete a file on a Windows XP Pro share (simple file sharing, all network users have read/write access to the share).

So there's still no actual solution to the double thumbnails?

Also, everyone PLEASE go and register on the official WD forums and VOTE FOR WHAT YOU WANT THEM TO FIX!

The top idea right now (with almost 100 votes) is to add full menu support to blu ray/DVD rips. If we show WD that hundreds of us want a feature added, they WILL give it to us!

Just bought one of these, and have been very happy with my WDTV (first gen), but havent hooked it up yet. I wanted to get opinions on others here who are using different setups. I have a 1TB Mybook I am using now with the WDTV. Do you folks like to have it directly connected to the computer and stream from there to the WDTV Live, or do you prefer to hook up the drive to the WDTV Live and file manage remotely from the computer? I am new to this streaming stuff, but looking forward to it.

Thanks!

Greg

Just and update for anyone that's interested. Ran Cat 6 cable over the weekend and officially tested playing media via one player to another. Player 1 recognized player 2 in media shares and allowed access to either usb port with hard drives attached. (note: Had to preform firmware update to players for them to show up in network shares). Both players need to be "on" of course. I played at least 5 movies over the weekend beginning to end with no issues to report. FF, RW, and 10 minute skip worked the same as if the hard drive was plugged into the player being used. Tested with full blu-ray .M2TS files pulled from blu-ray disks with Dolby HD audio bitstreaming to my receiver. Most files were 20+GB each. I figured this would be the video files with the most data to transfer, smaller files seemed to play fine as well. Like I said I don't have any issues to report.

I also played around with PlayOn as a Media Server and it seemed to work fine with the plug-ins I have installed. I did notice that in PlayOn the local media folder I shared had issues with FF and RW, it would just skip to the next file in the folder and I couldn't get it to work at all. The media folder in PlayOn is in Beta so who knows.....you can watch a file fine as long as you want to play the whole thing without skipping

AMEN! Double images is hands down the most annoying thing. I already voted. That should be #1 in my humble opinion. Why would you want all the space an full ISO takes up when you really only need the movie file. Just seems like wasted hard drive space to me. A full blu-ray ISO has several gigs of data just taking up space....lets say approx 40GB ISO vs approx 25GB actual movie.

It wasn't clear. Did you try playing movies concurrently, different or same movie on both WDTV devices or did you just play a movie on one WDTV from the HDD attached to the other WDTV? It sounded like the latter so that's what I want clarification on. If not, would you mind trying that?

I have two WDTV Live devices and wouldn't mind doing that one day if it can work reasonably well.

I agree, not sure why it hasn't gotten more votes! I've tried posting links to that on twitter/digg/facebook in order to get more votes for everything :/.

I just played a movie on one WDTV from the HDD attached to the other WDTV. I can try playing movies on both at the same time from the same HDD and from different HDDs and see what happens. I will post in the morning.

Hey Guys,

I've been debating between this Player & Xtreamer. I'm very tempted to drop at Best Buy and pick this up for $119 ... rather then waiting to get Xtreamer shipped in for $135. But there's a couple of Questions I have ...

First & Foremost, can anyone give me any strong reason why I should choose Xtreamer instead of this?

My main purpose for this player is...

i. Connect an external USB Hard Drive (2TB) and play my videos off of it.
ii. Play 1080p MKV's with DTS or Dolby Digital (Full 6 Channel Audio Output)
iii. Play BD-ISO (with or without menu)

Can this player do all of the above?

Xtreamer's firmware updates regularly ... and two features are expected sometime soon that I'm very interested in ..

i. Menu Support for Blu-ray ISO
ii. YAMJ Movie Jukebox

Is there any possibility of WDTV Live getting these two features anytime in the near future?

Thanks!!

Isn't this kind of a rude question in the competitions thread? I don't think anybody but a couple of 'sour grapes' that infest this thread will answer that.


i. Yes
ii. Yes, passthru via optical to an A/V receiver
iii. Yes, WDTV Live currently does not support menus. Direct BD rips do not play well over network. Most networks are too slow for the high bitrate in BD rips.


Unknown. Western Digital doesn't put out a firmware roadmap. There have been a lot of requests for menu support. Currently, WDTV Live does not read HTML.

Is it possible for it to get Menu / YAMJ support in the future? I know that some chips are "incapable" of recieving Menu support due to licensing issues. Xtreamer is NOT one of them; it is working on support for both. Is there any chance WDTV Live will get support for both?

One more question. Xtreamer is not able to play BD-ISO (Blu-ray ISO) over 40GB in size; is WDTV Live able to play BD-ISO over 40GB in size?

Thanks!!

I have no idea. There are supposed to be "some exciting things coming out the first of the year".


I don't know about that either. Largest BD rip I have played was 38GB.

If you haven't heard about it, most likely it's not a problem then. Over 40 gb BD rips are common & it's been a predominantly well known problem with the Xtreamer. The news if exciting things coming soon is also promising.

I'm really on doubt now; almost shifting towards WDTV Live.

i have this same ff bug with some of my mp4 (h264, aac) videos.
you can fix it by, using yamb/mp4box to extract all the streams to your desktop and then creating a new mp4 file and adding those extracted streams back.

I experimented with both players. I can play movies on both players at the same time from the same HDD that is connected to one player. I played about 20 min with no issues. I played movies from both HDD's connected to one player at the same time(player 1 playing one HDD connected, player 2 streaming via the network from the other drive attached to player 1), again no issues. I played a movie on each player streaming from the HDD attached to the opposite player at the same time, again no issues.

I don't guess it should matter but I am using WD my book 1TB drives on both players (2 in each).

Right, that's why they did put DVD menu support into the Live. Or wait, they didn't!

Thanks for testing that, I think it is just not possible to do with the WD.

DVD menus had more than 7000 votes for WDTV 1... that never came.

Bear in mind that you get what you buy from WD... don't expect for more features... everyone here will say the same to you... if they put more features, that's good... if not, you still got what you buy!