*Official* WD TV Live Streaming Media Player Thread - Page 6

Possible to just name the folders, leaving the files whatever? "Movie (2001)".

I'd like to know this too .... would appreciate it if any of the existing owners could just take a peek at their AC/DC adaptor and see if it's a universal (multi-voltage) adaptor. Would really appreciate it. Thanks very much.

adapter shows 100-240v on mine.

woot woot! great news. thanks very much.

WD Confirms the WDTV Live Streaming Media Player is 10/100 ONLY, not 10/100/1000.

AnandTech's brochure linked above is apparently out of date.

http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/librar...178-705254.pdf

... This one is dated September, as well, which means WD updated it before the product was announced.

Hope that helps with the confusion...

I was feeling depressed that no matter what I did, I could not get the 1000 LED on my switch to light up!

Does anyone know....Can this use Themes for the Live Hub?

Where? link, please.

No, that does not work. Mine USB HD was setup that way, with the file inside not named like that at all and until I renamed the movie file's themselves, the scraping wouldn't work.

Oh, that's disappointing.

raphaelwd -- will there be any more firmware updates (bug fixes) to the Live+ or is that now an orphan product.

Do yourself a favour, return it and get another media player that supports DTS HDMA, because it's never going to happen. There are many Realtek based media players and others that are cheap and have DTS HDMA support.


Because WD sells hard drives, not DVD-Roms/BD-Roms. And they don't care if you want it...



Previous products are DEAD for WD. D-E-A-D. DEAD

Yeah, I saw it in a theater back then.
Guess that also explains why you can't get info about TV series.

Wow, you're really dating yourself now. I guess you can say the same thing about the Buck Rogers pilot, which was also shown in theaters. . . . . which I saw. . . . . . at the theater. . . . . .

I cannot comment on when this might happen, but we are working on at least one more firmware update for Live and Live Plus.


The WD TV Live Streaming will have to have its own separate themes, because the UI is slightly different in some places. That said, it is similar enough to Live Hub that it should be pretty easy to port older themes over.



I have another trick up my sleeve for metadata. If your movie filenames don't return a direct match on TMDB, you can still get a correct result by putting a .nfo file in the same directory that contains a link to that movie's IMDB page. For example:

The_Matrix.mkv would return multiple results, however if I have The_Matrix.nfo in that folder, and it has a link to http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/ somewhere in it, then the WD TV will fetch the correct result.

raphaelwd....Thanks

Disappointed x2.
I too knew the 8670 was capable of GbE and was really hoping for it on this new player.

Does the absense of GbE really make a difference in this case ?

I guess I can see the value of GbE in a media player with a HDD incorporated , but it seems to me that 10/100 is just fine , even for the highest bitrate BlueRay rip.

Well, the Hub DOES have Gig, and people cursed the performance... So they probably didn't wanna go there again...

Like many of us, I don't have any local storage. The lack of scraping for network media is really the only thing stopping me from getting this player. If you do fix it where would the metadata be stored? Does the unit have any space for that?

Thanks....philip

The metadata is stored alongside the movie in an XML file of the same name... That's how it works for Local USB disks, at least...

There is a couple files and a possible folder that stores the metadata/pics. Would hope the scraping for NAS/network does come with the net firmware upgrade. Keeps me from having to take out the HDDs one at a time to update the metadata. hmmmm.

Does that also apply to Video_TS folder DVD rips?

same here.

Even so, why keep folders where you have to click twice for playback when you can do the same with 1 click on an ISO?

I agree... Gbe is ONLY beneficial if the media player/server has an internal HDD capability for file transfers, file sharing, and streaming to other devices...

In this case the WDTV Live Streaming Media Player does not support or does not have an internal HDD - having Gbe would've been a waste of money/hardware feature and may have priced it out of the catagory it is trying to compete in... 10/100 Ethernet is more than enough for it to function primarily as just a streamer...

If the file name is correct but the folder not correct, will it work?

For example, I have a folder 'James Bond'.

Inside that folder I have a sub-folder for each film. To ensure they appear in correct chronological order I name the folder by year, then title, so if I view by folder it shows the sub-folders as:

1962 - Dr. No
1963 - From Russia with Love
1964 - Goldfinger
1965 - Thunderball

And so on.

But inside the "1962 - Dr. No" folder I have the file correctly named as:

Dr. No (1962).mkv

Will that work?

Steve W

Yes. It doesn't care about folder names unless it's a VIDEO_TS folder or BD rip folder, in which case it scrapes on the name of the parent folder.

I don't see any evidence of this but I thought I would ask anyways: is there any kind of SDK such that someone can write their own "app"? Some kind of direct interface to PVR software on a PC would be nice...