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Is there a standard solution to the WDTV Live not recognizing a 3tb external USB drive?
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| # ? Jan 15, 2013 22:48 |
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| # ? May 24, 2013 01:16 |
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Wasn't that issue resolved in a firmware update a few years ago?
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| # ? Jan 16, 2013 06:14 |
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Can anyone tell me how well the WDTV networks with Linux?
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 20:19 |
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caiman posted:Can anyone tell me how well the WDTV networks with Linux? I set up the simple NFS sharing on a Mac, this should work for you too: http://wiki.wdlxtv.com/Sharing_from_OSX Oh, and if you were just asking for a review - it's fine. I don't have lag problems or anything like that, although I never tried playing anything above 720p Cowcatcher fucked around with this message at Feb 11, 2013 around 20:46 |
| # ? Feb 11, 2013 20:44 |
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caiman posted:Can anyone tell me how well the WDTV networks with Linux? It networks with my linux NAS without a problem for me.
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 22:33 |
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Has anyone else's started dropping audio after you finish playing your first file? E. G. Play one, when it finishes, select another, but the second will have to offer audio? Power cycling fixes the issue temporarily. I've only tried on mkvs and the problem appears intermittent, but it's been a happening since around the last firmware upgrade? I do move mine around a lot if that might be significant.
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| # ? Feb 21, 2013 06:03 |
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Heners_UK posted:Has anyone else's started dropping audio after you finish playing your first file? E. G. Play one, when it finishes, select another, but the second will have to offer audio? Power cycling fixes the issue temporarily. I've only tried on mkvs and the problem appears intermittent, but it's been a happening since around the last firmware upgrade? I do move mine around a lot if that might be significant. No, although I do have problems with large mkvs getting stuck on loading. After one gets stuck, I can't play any other videos until I reboot.
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| # ? Feb 21, 2013 16:57 |
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Heners_UK posted:Has anyone else's started dropping audio after you finish playing your first file? E. G. Play one, when it finishes, select another, but the second will have to offer audio? Power cycling fixes the issue temporarily. I've only tried on mkvs and the problem appears intermittent, but it's been a happening since around the last firmware upgrade? I do move mine around a lot if that might be significant. After the latest firmware, I have had audio problems where after pausing, the audio does not come on for a few seconds. But I have not had completely dropped audio like you.
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| # ? Feb 24, 2013 00:34 |
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80k posted:After the latest firmware, I have had audio problems where after pausing, the audio does not come on for a few seconds. But I have not had completely dropped audio like you. Am wondering about rolling back as it's happening fairly regularly now.
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| # ? Feb 26, 2013 01:51 |
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Does anyone have issues with Netflix on their WDTV Live Streaming box? It works fine for a little bit, but after a couple hours it will slow to a crawl and I'll eventually need to do a hard reboot of the entire thing. Almost like there's a memory leak in the Netflix app.
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| # ? Mar 1, 2013 18:30 |
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I'm trying to get my hands on a WD TV Live, but for some reason the only thing I can get around here (I live in argentina, so unfortunately online shopping is not an option) is the WD TV Play. From what I can see the only differences are lack of MPEG-2 playback and DTS output. I'll be using it as a secondary player in my bedroom, I have an HTPC set up in the living room so I'd be using the built-in wi-fi to access the shared folders in my pc. Will this work? Or will it stutter and die if id try that with something in 1080p? And finally, if the play is not advised, are there any other media players I should check out? Cheers. /edit: Welp, looks like I manager to find a Live Streaming unit, albeit a little expensive. Will I be able to play things over wifi with it without quality loss? Does setting up a network share suffice, or do I have to set up some media server/streaming deal? (I can never get those to work). Thanks again! Edmond Dantes fucked around with this message at Mar 4, 2013 around 15:14 |
| # ? Mar 4, 2013 13:38 |
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You can set up a simple network share and it will work fine. The WDTV players don't downsample video to accommodate any kind of connection; you either have the bandwidth to support it (plays fine), or you don't (choppy, constantly buffering, etc). You'll likely have problems streaming anything HD over wifi unless you have an N router with good reception.
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| # ? Mar 4, 2013 17:00 |
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The router is right on the other side of a wall, maybe a metre away tops. It's a G, though, but I've been thinking of switching over to an N for some time now; I can probably make do with using a usb stick until I get it. Thanks for the info!
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| # ? Mar 4, 2013 17:08 |
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I'm close to getting a WDTV Live Streaming Media Player soon and I was wondering if I can apply themes to it and change how the UI looks?
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| # ? Mar 13, 2013 13:57 |
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Disharmony posted:I'm close to getting a WDTV Live Streaming Media Player soon and I was wondering if I can apply themes to it and change how the UI looks? Not really. I think you can change the colours a bit and maybe the background image. Someone's probably coming up with a hack though.
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| # ? Mar 13, 2013 20:29 |
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Disharmony posted:I'm close to getting a WDTV Live Streaming Media Player soon and I was wondering if I can apply themes to it and change how the UI looks? Themes are supported and the UI can be entirely overhauled however if you want to do something entirely custom it's fairly non-trivial since it's a lot of mucking about with hand editing xmls. If you don't mind some digging you can find some community created themes on the WDTV community forums. I personally think they're all pretty hideous but I'm using a tweaked version of this theme, which isn't too terrible.
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| # ? Mar 13, 2013 21:03 |
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Yeah, I've tried a bunch of different themes for my Live Hub, but always end up going back to the default one. It's not flashy, but it works well enough and has everything I need really.
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| # ? Mar 14, 2013 00:26 |
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new home, old colors, same Arsenal
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Yeah, I'm digging the custom themes from that forum and I just wanted to verify if I can use those since it's under the "Live Hub" subforum. Good to hear it works even with the regular streaming version.
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| # ? Mar 14, 2013 02:39 |
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I've been googling my rear end of to find a definitive answer to this question, but I might have missed the obvious, so bear with me. Can the WD TV Live do passthrough of DTS audio? I know it can't downmix it to 2 channels, but can it spit it out to a reciever?
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| # ? Mar 14, 2013 19:44 |
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It will pass it through and it will also downmix it to stereo, as long as it's not DTS-HD (which is passthrough only).
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| # ? Mar 15, 2013 00:54 |
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Got the WDTV Live last night and it works like a charm so far except for short faint gray vertical lines (like rusty roof shingles) on the background when watching amply-lit scenes. Can't be an encoding issue since I never encountered this when playing it in my PS3.
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| # ? Mar 16, 2013 02:39 |
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Disharmony posted:Got the WDTV Live last night and it works like a charm so far except for short faint gray vertical lines (like rusty roof shingles) on the background when watching amply-lit scenes. Can't be an encoding issue since I never encountered this when playing it in my PS3. Try youtube, do you see it there?
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| # ? Mar 16, 2013 02:41 |
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Now that you mentioned it, I'm seeing it even from just the menu. Faulty HDMI cable, perhaps? edit - Seems like a TV problem Disharmony fucked around with this message at Mar 16, 2013 around 10:29 |
| # ? Mar 16, 2013 03:05 |
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Anyone have problems playing flac files? I've had a recurring problem going back to when I owned a WDTV Live (not the streaming model, which I hoped would solve the problem). It's existed through several firmware upgrades as well. I navigate to a folder containing an album and I play the first song. It immediately skips to the 2nd song, then 3rd, etc, until it reaches the end of the file list. Then it says the file format is not supported. This only happens with some albums. Others work fine.
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| # ? Mar 21, 2013 16:39 |
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BANME.sh posted:Anyone have problems playing flac files? I've had a recurring problem going back to when I owned a WDTV Live (not the streaming model, which I hoped would solve the problem). It's existed through several firmware upgrades as well. Some flac albums? Are you using a network share or media server?
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| # ? Mar 26, 2013 18:45 |
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I think my WDTV is dead, and I'm sad. I just updated to the latest firmware a week or two ago, watched a movie, and it was fine. I haven't used it since, turned it on tonight, and the TV gets no signal. If I power cycle the WDTV I get a splash screen that eventually disappears and TV goes back to no signal. Any ideas if it was the FW update that killed it? Can I roll back? any other suggestions? Google doesn't seem to be much help.
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| # ? Mar 31, 2013 00:30 |
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I'm guessing it's an HDMI problem. Try connecting it via composite.
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| # ? Mar 31, 2013 00:38 |
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That was it, which is really annoying. Doesn't WD have a history of screwing up firmware updates on the WDTV? 3 years it's been great, and then I get hit by a crappy FW. 
Panthrax fucked around with this message at Mar 31, 2013 around 03:34 |
| # ? Mar 31, 2013 03:23 |
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Panthrax posted:That was it, which is really annoying. Doesn't WD have a history of screwing up firmware updates on the WDTV? 3 years it's been great, and then I get hit by a crappy FW. Can you roll it back by modifying the version number?
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| # ? Mar 31, 2013 05:01 |
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Panthrax posted:That was it, which is really annoying. Doesn't WD have a history of screwing up firmware updates on the WDTV? 3 years it's been great, and then I get hit by a crappy FW. I have never got my HDMI to work with the drat thing.
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| # ? Mar 31, 2013 05:47 |
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So will this thing recognize my WD 3TB external? It seems some people have issues and others don't. I have an old Popcorn Hour A110 sitting in a closet, but it won't recognize my 3TB drive. I'm trying to decide if I should buy a WDTV Live, build a Raspberry Pi HTPC, or just buy a 2TB HDD to use with the A110. Any ideas?
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| # ? Apr 3, 2013 21:31 |
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No Butt Stuff posted:So will this thing recognize my WD 3TB external? It seems some people have issues and others don't. I have an old Popcorn Hour A110 sitting in a closet, but it won't recognize my 3TB drive. I'm trying to decide if I should buy a WDTV Live, build a Raspberry Pi HTPC, or just buy a 2TB HDD to use with the A110. Yeah, the current models see large hard drives quite well. I had a 3TB USB 3.0 drive hooked up to mine until I put together a home entertainment server.
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| # ? Apr 3, 2013 22:37 |
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Welp, turned out it wasn't my WDTV after all. Tried turning on my DVD player, no signal. Xbox, no signal. poo poo. Do a little research, apparently Sony TVs have an occasional issue where it loses the HDMI codes or something like that. Turn power off on everything for like 5 minutes, turn back on, everything works. I'm sorry, my lovely WDTV, for besmirching your good name.
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| # ? Apr 7, 2013 02:52 |
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It sees my hard drive just fine. Not looking forward to when I disconnect to add more files and it has to re-index everything. This thing is a bit sluggish, but it definitely gets the job done.
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| # ? Apr 11, 2013 13:27 |
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BANME.sh posted:Does anyone have issues with Netflix on their WDTV Live Streaming box? I have been having that problem. Sometimes it flat out refuses to play some of my files even though I was just watching one or two befor hand. I hate having to reboot.
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| # ? Apr 23, 2013 19:34 |
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| # ? May 24, 2013 01:16 |
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Just FYI, the Netflix service on the WDTV is dynamically loaded from Netflix's servers. The WDTV just contains a simple browser. This means that Netflix can continuously push out updates to their service, so it can change at any time. Depending on how much they test these changes on various devices, the user experience can get better or worse.
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| # ? Apr 23, 2013 20:44 |
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