Hi, I have trawled the forums for hours but still can’t find a fix. Many of my movies don’t play on WD TV Live. I only bought it 2 weeks ago so quite sure its the latest WD TV version
the movies show up in my windows libraray and WD TV live menu
I am running the latest 1.06.43 software
I have tried to Handbrake the file
I have tried to remux the file using MKV merge
I am running Windows 7 on an alienware laptop and all movies play fine using WMP and VLC
I am connecting the WD TV live via a CAT 6 home network (not wi-fi)
Here is the MediaInfo of one of my files. Please help, its driving me crazy!
Actually, if you’re running on 1.06.43, you have bought the old WDTV Live and are posting to the wrong forum. That said, looking at the specs the file should also play on your model.
yes, am using media server. I just spent another few hours trying to set up media server by turning streaming on, permissioning to all devices, firewall off etc. that got me no where so I just transferred the moves to a public folder and went to network share in the WD OS. All works fine now. thanks
I dont understand why media server is so complicated. pity there isnt an easy way to make it work
For videos, I’ve never seen the point / advantage of Media Servers.
I do use Media Servers my my music because it offers easier navigation / categorization / etc.
I follow your point, because all the movies I want to watch on the WD player are on drives connected directly to the player. Rarely do I go out in the network to grab a movie via network shares. Nevertheless, there are times when media servers are handy. For example, Twonky Beam app is a media server and looks for other media servers on the network. It does not see network shared devices/drives. The WD sees an iPad running Twonky Beam as a media server, and can request media from the iPad this way as well as accept TB beaming media to it.
As for music, I have all my digital music files duplicated on an HD connected to the WD player, and can play my playlists (or albums) from the drive. (Also, if the PC is on, the PC itself can be accessed via Media server feature, but why bother since all my music there is on the player’s HD). But, if music on PC is not yet on the player HD, I can get it via media server.
I use Sonos streaming so dont need the WD TV for music. Solely playing movies from my PC to my big screen TV. I am thinking of investing in a NAS to store my movies/videos and pictures (also create a redundancy in case one hard drive breaks)
Slight deviation to my original q but if I buy a Synology DS214play (or any Synology home NAS), will I be able to store movies/videos on the NAS and the WD TV plays it effortlessly via media server or network share? I dont want to buy it and waste hours trying to set it up with WD TV Live if you say for example Q-Nap is better. It syas here Synology works fine but just double checking http://www.synology.com/support/faq_show.php?q_id=411
If your home network is robust enough, you will be able to play movies from a NAS via network shares. Not all video-containing files are playable via media server mode; e,g, ISO files are only playable via network shares.
I know nothing about the NAS products you mention, but did you know WD makes NAS products? Look into them. Check out the new My Cloud products.