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post #2101 of 2117
3/14/13 at 8:04am
Question!! I have a TV Live Hub and have 4 external drives connected to it via a USB hub and it works amazingly well. All files on all the drives appear under the video listing alphabetically, I don't have to toggle back and forth between drives. My issue, and I'm sorry if I'm repeating something already posted here is that I wanted to expand this system to another TV and I purchased Live TV Player (not the hub) and I wanted it to display the videos in the same manner as it displayed on the TV Live Hub, but it doesn't work that way. Long story short, I'm going to return the TV Live Player and buy another hub, however I'm wondering, if I were to connect my external drives to my in-home network, can I get the files on all of the drives to appear as if they were attached to the hub like my original setup?

I tried connecting the drives to a WD My Net 900 router and it doesn't recognize the USB hub, only one of the drives connected, so I was going to purchase a USB Networked hub to attach to the router to see if that would work.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.
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post #2102 of 2117
4/25/13 at 12:43pm
Hello! I've almost had it with my PS3 and PS3 Media Server setup. It was great until last night when MKV conversion on the fly started stuttering out of no where. I think it was because I updated Java on my PC, but that was a few weeks ago. Thus, I'm currently exploring other hardware solutions. I have some questions about the WD TV Live Hub.

1. Has this been released for a while now and is there a new model coming soon? Should I wait?

2. Can one transfer files from a PC through the network to a regular external USB hard drive connected to the Hub as a network drive?

3. If yes, can I set uTorrent to download directly to the external USB HD or the Hub directly, then play the media from the Hub or from external HD to Hub and watch it on my TV.

4. Would it make sense to buy the cheaper 500gb version, and just buy a 2 TB HD and save some money?

5. I read that WD TV Live Hub supports MKV, does this mean it plays it natively without conversion. Is playback smooth?

6. Could someone please explain the Syncing feature to me?

Thank you!
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post #2103 of 2117
4/25/13 at 2:45pm
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Originally Posted by FutureMcFly View Post

Hello! I've almost had it with my PS3 and PS3 Media Server setup. It was great until last night when MKV conversion on the fly started stuttering out of no where. I think it was because I updated Java on my PC, but that was a few weeks ago. Thus, I'm currently exploring other hardware solutions. I have some questions about the WD TV Live Hub.

1. Has this been released for a while now and is there a new model coming soon? Should I wait?

2. Can one transfer files from a PC through the network to a regular external USB hard drive connected to the Hub as a network drive?

3. If yes, can I set uTorrent to download directly to the external USB HD or the Hub directly, then play the media from the Hub or from external HD to Hub and watch it on my TV.

4. Would it make sense to buy the cheaper 500gb version, and just buy a 2 TB HD and save some money?

5. I read that WD TV Live Hub supports MKV, does this mean it plays it natively without conversion. Is playback smooth?

6. Could someone please explain the Syncing feature to me?

Thank you!

1) No rumors about anything new, I'd buy now

2) Yes

3) Yes

4) IMHO, the less peripherals the better. I'd go with the 2TB hub. You can set uTorrent to send right to the hub if you map it as a network drive.

5) Yes

6) I have not gotten the sync feature to work so I am probably doing it wrong. Maybe someone else can field this one.
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post #2104 of 2117
4/25/13 at 11:22pm
Hi,

I have some questions about TV shows. I have Glee TV series stored on my hub using different folders. And, WD TV Live Hub categories all 3 seasons into comedy list. And, now, I have to scroll one page after another just to find other comedy movies.

Is it supposed to be like that? Any other workaround just to group TV shows into TV series category?

Thanks all.
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post #2105 of 2117
4/26/13 at 4:44am
Short of creating your own genre for TV shows, such as "TV Comedy", then no.
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post #2106 of 2117
4/26/13 at 12:44pm
I have a question about sorting. I have two TV series, The Big Bang Theory, and Babylon 5. Both are in their own folder and the files are named correctly (for example babylon5.s01e12.avi). The database correctly recognizes each show, but then renames it. But now they don't show up in order. Episode one is first in the list, followed by episode 10, 11, 12... then 19, 2, 20, 21....
Both shows do the same thing.

Obviously the problem is that the database numbers it episode 1 but the sorter does not recognized that it is 01. Of course an easy fix, if I could do it, would be to rename it episode 01, but it won't let you change that. I'm wondering what other people do to make things show up in order for TV shows.
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post #2107 of 2117
4/26/13 at 2:38pm
^^^

Well, I guess I answered my own question but I'll post it here for anyone else who might run across it. I need to manually edit the XML files of the offending episodes and change the 1 to 01, 2 to 02, etc... Then I have to clear out the medial library on WDTV and have it repopulate. It seems that there are some programs that will automate this for you and I recommend checking out the forums/community at WDTVLIVE.com which is where I found the answer.

I'll give it a try when I get home tonight and amend this post if it does not work.
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post #2108 of 2117
4/29/13 at 9:27am
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1) No rumors about anything new, I'd buy now

2) Yes

3) Yes

4) IMHO, the less peripherals the better. I'd go with the 2TB hub. You can set uTorrent to send right to the hub if you map it as a network drive.

5) Yes

6) I have not gotten the sync feature to work so I am probably doing it wrong. Maybe someone else can field this one.

Thanks for answering my questions!

Here's another one for you WD TV Live Hub owners. Having owned this, is it the streamlined, hassle free experience you were hoping for? I really, really don't want to hack around to make it work perfectly. I've done enough of that with my PS3. I just want to set it up as a network drive, download media from my torrent client to it, and watch.

If you could do it over would you still get this unit, or something else, like a Mede8ter or Dune?
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post #2109 of 2117
4/29/13 at 9:45am
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Thanks for answering my questions!

Here's another one for you WD TV Live Hub owners. Having owned this, is it the streamlined, hassle free experience you were hoping for? I really, really don't want to hack around to make it work perfectly. I've done enough of that with my PS3. I just want to set it up as a network drive, download media from my torrent client to it, and watch.

If you could do it over would you still get this unit, or something else, like a Mede8ter or Dune?
Besides the jukebox features, this is pretty hassle free for 99% of what I need. It even handles SBS and OU 3D content, but not frame-packed (MVC) 3D. I've been reading up on some Theme hacking to get a better jukebox experience, but most of what I want to do would require a complete reorganization of my collection, which I'm not yet ready to do.

With all that said, I'm still probably going to get a Mede8er or Dune anyway for my main watching area because of a better jukebox and better 3D options and move my Live Hub to the bedroom.
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post #2110 of 2117
4/29/13 at 6:35pm
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Originally Posted by FutureMcFly View Post

Here's another one for you WD TV Live Hub owners. Having owned this, is it the streamlined, hassle free experience you were hoping for? I really, really don't want to hack around to make it work perfectly. I've done enough of that with my PS3. I just want to set it up as a network drive, download media from my torrent client to it, and watch.

If you could do it over would you still get this unit, or something else, like a Mede8ter or Dune?

It's pretty hassle free. A few things I have found to make it MORE hassle free would be to make sure you assign it a static IP (easy to do, just go into the router setup and got DHCP reservations and click it). I've had better luck leaving it on all the time rather than turning it on and off, I don't know about others. Very easy to access it as a mapped network drive. It's nice that you CAN go in and fiddle with stuff. For example, it recognizes my Terminator movies but I was able to go into the XML file and edit the name changing it from The Terminator to Terminator so it would be listed next to Terminator 2,3,4. Same with the James Bond films; I just edited each XML to add James Bond 02 - first (and obviously changed the 02 to whatever the number was). You don't have to do that stuff but you can. I hear that Dune is better but it's much more expensive, this does what I like, and I do use Netflix and Pandora a lot. So far I'm very happy.
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post #2111 of 2117
5/10/13 at 10:21am
I have had the WD LiveHub for a year or so now and find it terrific. My only problem is that I can view everything ( video, pictures and music ) through the Live Hub on my familyroom tv, but when I try to do the same thing on my basement system, running through my Marantz 5006, the only one of the three I can play is music. Any ideas as to why I can't see the video?
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post #2112 of 2117
5/10/13 at 10:39am
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I have had the WD LiveHub for a year or so now and find it terrific. My only problem is that I can view everything ( video, pictures and music ) through the Live Hub on my familyroom tv, but when I try to do the same thing on my basement system, running through my Marantz 5006, the only one of the three I can play is music. Any ideas as to why I can't see the video?

How are you feeding the basement from the Marantz?

Bill
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post #2113 of 2117
5/10/13 at 10:58am
Bill Not a very technical type person but everything starts out from a laptop and then through the home network to the live hub and to the Marantz
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post #2114 of 2117
5/10/13 at 11:03am
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Bill Not a very technical type person but everything starts out from a laptop and then through the home network to the live hub and to the Marantz

So two completely separate setups?

Bill
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post #2115 of 2117
5/10/13 at 11:10am
Yes... When I select the network input on the Marantz and then select the WD Live Hub folder, all 3 subolders come up on the screen but the only one that seems to have any content is the music file, which plays perfectly. If I remember correctly ( at work now) there are titles showing in the video folder but nothing plays.
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post #2116 of 2117
5/10/13 at 11:13am
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Yes... When I select the network input on the Marantz and then select the WD Live Hub folder, all 3 subolders come up on the screen but the only one that seems to have any content is the music file, which plays perfectly. If I remember correctly ( at work now) there are titles showing in the video folder but nothing plays.

The Marantz won't be able to stream anything but audio through it's network connection.

Bill
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post #2117 of 2117
5/10/13 at 11:17am
Thanks Bill for clearing that up. Probably does say that in the manual, which of course is disk ,which also means oldies like me seldom check it out:)
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