Okay I searched the forums, many times and need to post this. I have a refurbished WD TV Live unit that I recently got at NewEgg for a shell shocker. What ever. I hooked it up to my VIZIO M221NV via HDMI.
Problem #1:
Well I played many files, (avi, mkv) and they work fine unless the WDTVLive unit tries to play an mkv file that has been encoded with Digital DTS. There is just no sound. I understand it cannot play this audio encode, fine. I need to use the TOSLINK to a AV receiver to get sound. I have my WDTVLive+ hooked up like and it works great.
This unit though, after it tries to play a mkv file with DTS Digital it breaks the sound for anything else I try to play.
I stop the movie, then go to another file that I know the audio works and I get no sound. This is a bug. The unit should reset the audio channel/line and play the sound on files it knows how to decode after the fact.
I updated the unit to the latest firmware version as of yesterday: Release 1.02.21 (3/30/10) and the problem still exists.
Anyway Problem #2 now hits. I figured if I switch the TV input to another HDMI, say HDMI #2 and then switch back it would fix it. Not at all. Actually what happens is when I press the HDMI button on the remote to go to HDMI #2 input, my TV does a hard reset. It turns off and goes through the blinking logo as if I just unplugged the TV’s power cord and plugged it back in. :womanmad: I can reproduce this every single time the Unit gets into this broken audio state after it tries to play a DTS Digital mkv, then I try to switch the HDMI input to another HDMI = TV Resets itself.
I even tried switching to say AV1, or Component then back to HDMI #1 and the TV reboots itself. So what ever the WDTVLive unit does, it puts the HDMI port in a really bad state where it causes the TV to reboot, after it tries to play a mkv file that it cannot decode the DTS Digital on.
This has to be fixed please.