Western Digital WD TV HD Media Player - a HTPC replacement??

[spirovious]

now I can go and peacefully buy one :yahoo:

BTW, anyone selling an old WDTV?

I joined 2 VOB files & made one & played from WD successfully...

 

[captainrizal]

i have Lacie multi media hard drive 80 GB. Is WD TV HD media player better??

 

[spirovious]

i have Lacie multi media hard drive 80 GB. Is WD TV HD media player better??

WDtv is a cheap & better solution.Only 2 cons, HDMI 1.2 (so cant bitstream HD aud) & no networking.Else it is better choice.

 

[KonfuSed]

why buying WDTV ? go for WDTV Live.

Actually I can go for Xtreamer also. WDTV live is not yet tested so don't want to take the chance now.

 

[madbullram]

Actually I can go for Xtreamer also. WDTV live is not yet tested so don't want to take the chance now.

!XT is a better option than WD Live for the price point.

 

[KonfuSed]

Actually as of now my main concern(I mean use) is that I should be able to play all my avi/mkv/vob/mp4 files from my Hard drive without any glitch and that's all I need. Not even thinking about playing it via network and stuff like that. May be after a year or two I'll think about that but that's about it. So for that reason I thought WD TV would suit my purpose and if I can get one in 2nd hand market it'll be really VFM. Untill then I'll use my laptop to screen the movies into my TV.

 

[aneelr]

Hi,

The WD version 1 does not play .VOB files(confirmed). Not sure about Xtreamer......but is listed in the specs.

http://www.hifivision.com/television/6585-what-formats-playable-samsung-series-7-led-tv.html

cheers.
thanks.

Hi,

Sorry for replying without googling about the info on the net. One of the other forum was suggesting that you put the .vob files outside the VIDEO_TS folder and it'll play...........and the same situation worked for me but donot know why?. If the .vob file is put inside the VIDEO_TS folder it does not play. Is it the same issue with others.......or is it playing for anybody from within the VIDEO_TS folder.

Sorry once again.

Thanks.

 

[aneelr]

+1 more thing is, if you have a sequential file's of .vob, WDTV does not play it continuously, the reason being we have a habit of pressing the enter button on the remote to start any file to play........but if you need the WDTV to play sequential .vob's continuously then we need to press the play/pause button. (Not sure whether this has been discussed earlier in this forum.)

But one problem still existing is, if my .vob has got 2 audio tracks, and when I play the .vob for the first time and change to 2nd audio track, the second .vob file changes back to the 1st audio track..........any idea on how to retain the specified audio track throughout the play.(i.e in all .vob files.)

Thanks.

 

[madbullram]

But one problem still existing is, if my .vob has got 2 audio tracks, and when I play the .vob for the first time and change to 2nd audio track, the second .vob file changes back to the 1st audio track..........any idea on how to retain the specified audio track throughout the play.(i.e in all .vob files.)

Thanks.

You cant right now, its in the wish list of firmware updates which is at Gods mercy currently with advent of WD Live

 

[spirovious]

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[spirovious]

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[zorro]

Hello all

Is there anyway we can play a DTS WAV audio file in WDTV player ? WDTV is supposed to pass through DTS files.

When i play this file lot of noise comes out of the speaker. My receiver can decode DTS and Dolby Digital 5.1 files.

I am wondering if i can make these files play normally by changing some setting either in WDTV or my receiver.

Thanks
Zorro

 

[spirovious]

Firmware update may.

 

[aneelr]

Hello all

Is there anyway we can play a DTS WAV audio file in WDTV player ? WDTV is supposed to pass through DTS files.

When i play this file lot of noise comes out of the speaker. My receiver can decode DTS and Dolby Digital 5.1 files.

I am wondering if i can make these files play normally by changing some setting either in WDTV or my receiver.

Thanks
Zorro

Hi,

I was facing the same problem ....... and no work around for the same. Need to wait for new firmware i guess

cheers

 

[madbullram]

WDTV Firmware update 1.03

Finally some update:
WD TV Product Update

What's New?

Release 1.03 (11/9/2009)
(includes all previously released updates)

Added video playlist support
Added support for the drive lock function on the new My Passport and My Book external storage devices
Improved metadata support for music. For example, browsing by genre is broken down into artists, then albums, then tracks
Enhanced cover art, album art, and thumbnail support for media files and folders
Fixed bugs reported by the WD TV user community

 

[madbullram]

WDTV Pre-release 1.03.01

WD TV Product Update

What's New?

Prerelease 1.03.01 (includes all previously released updates)

Resolved Issues:

Resolved the language displayed as OFF when English was selected
Resolved the Contains button displayed as "ContainsWWW" in the search function
Resolved MKV audio which was out of sync with the video
Resolved slow rendering of Greek subtitles in Greek character encoding mode
Resolved disappearance of Korean subtitle during video playback
Resolved missing characters from the Greek subtitle font
Resolved playback issues with VC-1 codec in an MKV container
Resolved gain being applied to audio output that resulted in signal clipping
Resolved playlists playing audio tracks in alphabetical order by playing them in track order
Resolved the appearance of tracks in alphabetical order by displaying them in track order
Resolved the spacing issue seen in Korean subtitles during video playback
New features:

Added support for video playlists functions which were limited to music files only
Added support for the drive lock function on the new My Passport and My Book external storage devices

 

[multifaced]

this is a good news, they still supports. is there any official info regarding the support deadline of official firmware support for WDTV ?

 

[madbullram]

I know, was pleasantly surprised and they have fixed mkv audio also which is good. No timeline as yet

 

[aventhu]

It still does not support DVD Menus and segments. Whenever I press next, it goes to the next vid file. Not the next segment of the file playing.

 

[goyal.sanchit]

I saw this thread after a long time and was happy to find that there is an update of Firmware.


Strangely and Sadly they havent fixed the subtitle problem which was suggested and got votes in 1000's in the WD TV user website!!!!!!!! the option to increase size of Subtitle and color and positioning is very impo!! and the size is particularly small when watching on a CRT tv.