New Release - Firmware Version 1.09.10 for WD TV Live Streaming Media Player (6/5/12)

[Bill_S]

WD is happy to announce our latest firmware update for the WD TV Live Streaming Media Player.

• For the firmware update and release notes please check out the WD TV Live Streaming Media Player page.
• For instructions on how to do either an automatic or manual update, please refer to Answer ID 5749: How to automatically or manually update the firmware on a WD TV Live Hub Media Cente....

If you experience any issues with this firmware, please report them in the WD TV Live Streaming Issue Reporting exchange.

For questions or sharing your experience, you can post in this thread.

[rddrgn]

I saw the update and I'm downloading it now, I've noticed a lot of new features but in the changelog list there's nothing about playback issues... I'm going to try it and I really hope that I'll find nice surprises!

[Mr-Wolf]

Only looking at the issues I reported.

These issues are solved:

In youtube leanback, remote control BACK button doesn't work anymore.

In Youtube by WesternDigital, after 1 video has being played, the video preview icons are broken.

These issues are NOT solved:

The vertical distance between two lines of external SRT subtitles is too big.

In video browser list (2 columns). Can't navigate from columns 1st line, to the previous video. Inst...

[rddrgn]

I can confirm that defective playback in some AVIs I signaled on yesterday night (here) is still an issue and I suppose MKV stutter/judder is still a flaw. 

[oldman777]

The name of the new section "Live TV". In the reverse translation from Russian,

we get something like, "Let him live TV." This can be corrected?

PS  I think that it should be moved to the services.

[ernieflapps]

Ok, first of all thank you WD for the Youtube fix and the continued support of the SMP.

As far as the other new features are concerned they are awful.
1: Who's dumb idea was it to create a Live TV section in the main navigation bar? This is a Slingbox app and it should be in the services section. It's something I'm sure slingbox owners will love, but it's a niche service that should not be cluttering up the main menu, or at least stick it after services on the navigation bar out of the way.
2: The new Launchpad Flingo app is nothing short of horrific, it's slow and horrible to navigate, using CrunchyRoll on it was plain awful. The old Flingo setup was far superior and one of my favourite services on the WD has been rendered close to useless.
3: AOL HD, seriously? Who's idea was that?
4: RedBull TV for me at least isn't working, I just get a connection timed out error message.
5: Acetrax, a dissapointing selection of overpriced movies. For the cost of two rentals on Acetrax you can have Netflix for a whole month. Crackle or Popcornflix would have made much better additions, oh and their FREE!

[ernieflapps]

In reply to my own complaint. You can get rid of that Live TV menu option by going to into Setup > System > Device security > Parental control > On > Live TV > SlingPlayer - Hide.

The strange thing is that although this hides the Live TV menu option it also hides the Launchpad Flingo service, when you go back into the settings and set Launchpad Fligo to show it has the effect of showing the Live TV menu again.

[Mr-Wolf]

THANK YOU !

Are we being force fed with advertising to niche produtcs now ?!

- EDIT -

Hiding all GAMEs services, doesn't hide the GAMES tab.

Also I agree with you, this Slingbox app should be in the services.

WD: PLEASE PUT THIS THING WHERE IT BELONGS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[schwurbel]

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rddrgn wrote:

I can confirm that defective playback in some AVIs I signaled on yesterday night (here) is still an issue

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Hardly surprising considering the firmware was compiled on May 22nd (notice the date in the ZIP-archive).

As the match-framerate-reboot apparently got fixed, I hope the browsing net-shares was fixed, too. Going to test the new version tonight.

[Dikkiedikdik2]

Thanks for this great update! Tested almost everything and it all works, great great job! I hope the complaining people will enjoy their device now instead of **bleep** on this forum.