*Official* WD TV Live Streaming Media Player Thread - Page 82

Originally Posted by brianley 

What about:
Game of Thrones - 01x01 - episodename.mkv
Game of Thrones - 01x02 - episodename.mkv
etc?

Originally Posted by Otter0911 

Are you trying to get them alphabetically or numerically?

Originally Posted by John Moschella 

Well if you use a convention like 1x01, 1x02, etc., then alphabetically results in episode order, ie. 1, 2, ..... 10. That is what I was trying to get to.

Originally Posted by WDFan1970 

Right. As I said above, files are sorted by TITLE (as defined in the XML), not the file name.

You can trick the WD into re-importing XML files by just renaming the parent folder, rescan the parent folder of THAT folder.
Then rename it back, if you need to, and repeat.

Originally Posted by GusGus748s 


You can use ThumgGen to create a jukebox. Or if you don't like a complete jukebox you can use ThumgGen to create poster.jpg files of your movies as well. Here are a few movie wall I created with ThumgGen:







Poster wise it should look similar to this (this Zappiti):




Here you can see several ThumbGen screen shoots:

http://thumbgen.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=53&Itemid=61

Originally Posted by DeadEd 

This is awesome. I'd love to be able to have those screens with lots of info about the movie up. Can you tell me how to set up WD TV LIVE to do those? I do understand that I need the thumbgen, but then how do you get WDTV to go to the screen with all that info?

Originally Posted by dzl13 

Is there a way to get the SMP to show PT 1 and PT 2 of movies? If I go through the files menu, I can see all my mkv's on my NAS, when I go through the movies tab (preferred method by far) Harry Potter Deathly Hollows will not show up (neither pt 1 or 2). I have changed the title, wording, etc but nothing. Same thing goes for LOTR extended ed (pt 1 and 2). They won't show up in the movies folder. Any suggestions?

Originally Posted by WDFan1970 

I'd lay odds that you downloaded a torrent where the person who encoded the movie changed the frame rate.

Originally Posted by vilago 

So I posted a few pages back in this thread about a problem playing some blu ray rip MKV files on the live. It appears like a frame rate issue as motion does not seem "smooth" and there is a fair bit of judder which unfortunately is distracting to the point of annoyance.

Originally Posted by techflaws 

We've been trying to get to the bottom of this for a while. Currently it looks like remuxing the file and manually setting the FPS would do the trick. Can you upload the clip to mediafire or sendspace?

Originally Posted by vilago 

So I posted a few pages back in this thread about a problem playing some blu ray rip MKV files on the live. It appears like a frame rate issue as motion does not seem "smooth" and there is a fair bit of judder which unfortunately is distracting to the point of annoyance.
It seemed isolated to the harry potter movies so i let it go. Now it's back for a different movie which has me worried that the issue may be more widespread.
I have tried reseting, rolling back the firmware, using a different hard drive (i'm playing the files locally over USB) and nothing helps. The same file plays fine on my computer through the same hard drive in VLC so that eliminates a hard drive defect issue or ripping issue. It looks like the live is struggling with these specific files for some reason.
Since I have a hard time describing the issue, I'm posting a youtube video of the problem.
Look at the motion in the scenes and how it isn't smooth. There is some very noticeable judder.
The judder isn't random, it appears in these same spots in the movie when I play them over and over again. If no one has seen this before, I'll try posting in the WD forums but I hope someone else has this same problem.

for the video, watch the pumpkins as the lighting flashes, and then when nevil moves around. it's like the flashing is somehow making the framerate hiccup....
keep in mind this issue is much more pronounced in real life. (this isn't the only time it does it, but is the most visible example i could find)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f2Ogy5a1KM&feature=youtu.be

ps I even tried the exact setup through the composite cables on a standard def tv to elminate some tv processing or HDMI issue and it STILL does it. i think i have safely placed this into a player issue....

Originally Posted by GusGus748s 

Have you tried ripping the movie to M2TS main movie only file? I've noticed that the WDTV works better with M2TS rather than MKV. When I had the WDTV2, I had a few issues with several movies like you are describing. I re-ripped the movie with ClownBD as M2TS file, and it worked fine.

Originally Posted by vilago 

ya didn't read it. this is a blu ray RIP not a torrent, therefore it's likely to also occur exactly the same if the blu ray were to be played directly. unfortunately i don't have a blu ray player so i can't test this for sure.

also i've checked the movie using software and the fram rate is 24p

Originally Posted by golfinguy 

Has anyone had experience with the Live running and playing 24/7? WD techs had concerns that it may shutdown after a period of time as it was not designed to run 24/7.

Originally Posted by Kelson 

I would second that observation.

Originally Posted by techflaws 

From what it looks like, the MKVs in questions weren't muxed properly. Cause so far remuxing each of them and setting FPS manually fixed the judder suggesting there's no problem with the MKV format as such on the LIVEs.

Originally Posted by WDFan1970 

The biggest problem I see with M2TS is the lack of chapter support.

Although MKV contains the chapter points (wherein .m2ts has no chapter support), they don't work on the WD Live as one would want them too -- pressing the >>| & |<< buttons does not chapter skip, you have to use the menu button.

Originally Posted by techflaws 

What about subtitle flags btw, does an m2ts by itself properly tell the player what forced sub to show?