RoofingGuy wrote:
But that’s just it. There are several bugs, not just that one.
(1)
If I make an .iso rip of “Star Wars”, the WDTV doesn’t handle the multiple titles within the video stream properly. Even if upgrades for the Gen1 hadn’t stopped, I could have either sat there whining, waiting 6 - 9 months to be able to watch the movie when the update gets released, or I can do the work-around myself in a couple of seconds and be back watching the movie. My personal choice was to just go with the work-around and not wait for WD. As it turns out, they then announced there’d be no more updates, so I’m glad I fixed things myself and I didn’t decide to wait 6 months or a year to be able to watch the movie again.
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If I make an .mkv with header compression enabled, that’s my own fault. I’m perfectly capable of making an .mkv without header compression. No matter which WD device I have, whether it’s an EOL one, or a Live Plus, I can either deal with the issue myself in a few seconds, or I can sit and wait and wait and wait and wait and see if WD ever fixes it. (And for the Gen1, they’ve said many times that they _ won’t _.)
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So, the question comes down to your “weekly tv shows and anime episodes”… either you’re encoding them yourself, and are perfectly capable of not encountering the “bug” in the first place, or you’re downloading them off the internet, and are perfectly capable of repairing them yourself, or of legally obtaining the media and not encountering the bug in the first place.
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It’s not WD’s place to aid and abet piracy. If you want to watch pirate encodes, that’s your decision, but it’s also up to you to deal with the ramifications of that, not WD. If new “scene” releases won’t work properly, perhaps you could ask “the scene” for your money back.
(1)I can understand if I should do this hack one time, two times, no harm done.
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I don’t think it should be considered “a fault” using header compression. Furthermore you have to understand that not all people, unlike you, who bought this device, are used to encode his own movies. Maybe those people don’t even know what a codec is. Buying a device doesn’t mean you should automatically know all the stuff about that branch. Like if buying a TV would require to know how satellite transmission works or cable transmission works. Furthermore I don’t get one thing, reading all over here: do you all use WDTV to watch only self encoded stuff based on own DVD/BD copies?
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It should be okay doing this one, two times, for me, but not every week, it would be discouraging. It could be difficult or impossibile for others. Right now it appears that the problem was: a single mkv had corrupted something internally and until the WDTV was reset, the issue continued. So I thinked people started encoding mkvs with some new technique. Fortunally after resetting the device the error is gone, until I’ll meet another “faulty” mkv.
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I don’t understand at 100% what you tried to say here. Header compressed mkvs could come out from legit free movie downloads also, or movie trailers, or … I don’t see header compression as an exclusive feature of some tv show releases