luchus wrote:
…if so, we should also see the subtitle file in the list, but they are not. The same logic to hide the subtitles files should be used to hide pictures on videos list.
Er, no. The subtitles files aren’t shown because they aren’t asked for. The WDTV is asking the network device to report video, audio and image files.
It’s not just the image files being shown… if you’re in “Video” you can still see (and PLAY) audio files and you can view the image files that are visible.
If you’re in “Audio”, you can see (and PLAY) video files, and can see (and view) photos.
If you’re in “Photos”, you can see (and PLAY) both audio and video files.
So, the “same logic” that’s hiding the subtitle files would be to never ask the network device for a listing of them… and in that case images would not show up in “Photos”.
On the one hand, many users have explicitly said that they would never grant the WDTV write access to their shared resources.
On the other hand, you’re not the first (and probably won’t be the last) to suggest that if write access is granted, then compile a library on the share, and if not, behave as it currently does… or to see if local USB storage is present, and if it is, write the library there (like it does for the USB storage itself), and if not continue to behave as it currently does.
The issue isn’t that solutions haven’t been offered for years… the issue is that a satisfactory solution has never been implemented.
But personally, the issue has been moot to me for quite some time. My thumbs are hidden and I don’t bother entering the music folders when I’m looking for videos, to care whether they should be “showing up” or not, and don’t bother entering the movie folders when I’m looking for music. If any solutions ever did get implemented, they’ll have essentially zero effect on my use of the thing. Simply hiding them has got it working close enough to as expected, without waiting for WD to tinker and break 6 things in the process. Sure seems easier to just hide them.