VSG12777
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thanks... We know it will not play hd audio, if dd/dts is supported, its fine. You mentioned that it does only stereo, so we were shocked.
Santy
The WD Gen1, Gen2, Live and Live Plus all pass through the DD 5.1 and DTS 5.1 signals through HDMI as well as optical out to your receiver. I have a friend with the WDTV Gen 1 who is getting nice surround sound through the HDMI from the WDTV connected to his Denon 1610 receiver.
So the user NetFreak was wrong. WDTV media player of course supports 5.1 sound through HDMI and optical out. As for me, since I don't have an AV receiver with HDMI, I have connected the WDTV's HDMI out to my LG 50 inch plasma and the optical out from the media player to the Yamaha receiver's optical in port. No problems with sound whatsoever. Superb DD and DTS 5.1 sound.
My query is unrelated to sound on WDs ...
On my WD player, I noticed that some MKV files play fine, while some of them does not play when selected .. i.e the time bar shows as 00:00:00/00:00:00.
After the WD fails to play a file, it does not play any other file unless I do a factory reset. :sad:
Anybody has a similar experience? If so, is there a way out?
Akb:
I face this kind of a problem sometimes with my WDTV Gen 1 when I try to play a WMV file. Most of my MKVs play without any problem. I have some HD WMV files with MP3 audio and these it will not play sometimes. I will get a blank screen and when I go back to the home menu and try to play any other file, it does the same thing. This is probably a firmware issue. Could be sorted out in the next firmware upgrade. Let us see. Otherwise so far it has been a trouble free device supporting most formats.
---Venkat