WDTV Live cannot play GoPro Hero 4 videos with 22 Mbps !?

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Hello,

I have made one 1080p video with GoPro Hero 4 camera and then edited it in GoPro Studio app and it came out as 1080p with 22 Mbit bitrate. WDTV cannot play it at all, I have tried everything, it just spins and shows how long the video is and goes back in the folder. My 2 year old E450 Samsung plasma plays it over USB but WDTV is a no go, not over stream or USB. Is it possible that WDTV is worse than Samsung plasma player ?? I dont want to recode it and lose quality. This should be a must for WDTV.

Thanks

Steve

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Busha wrote:

Hello,

 

I have made one 1080p video with GoPro Hero 4 camera and then edited it in GoPro Studio app and it came out as 1080p with 22 Mbit bitrate. WDTV cannot play it at all, I have tried everything, it just spins and shows how long the video is and goes back in the folder. My 2 year old E450 Samsung plasma plays it over USB but WDTV is a no go, not over stream or USB. Is it possible that WDTV is worse than Samsung plasma player ?? I dont want to recode it and lose quality. This should be a must for WDTV.

 

Thanks

Steve

If it’s an MP4 file, it could be due to a known bug in the firmware.

If not, please post the full TEXT output of MEDIAINFO for such a file.

http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net

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General
Complete name                            : D:\GoPro
Format                                   : MPEG-4
Format profile                           : Base Media
Codec ID                                 : isom
File size                                : 2.38 GiB
Duration                                 : 14mn 28s
Overall bit rate                         : 23.5 Mbps
Writing application                      : Lavf55.33.100

Video
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : AVC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                           : Baseline@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC                   : No
Format settings, ReFrames                : 1 frame
Format settings, GOP                     : M=1, N=30
Codec ID                                 : avc1
Codec ID/Info                            : Advanced Video Coding
Duration                                 : 14mn 28s
Bit rate                                 : 22.5 Mbps
Width                                    : 1 920 pixels
Height                                   : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate mode                          : Constant
Frame rate                               : 29.970 fps
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.363
Stream size                              : 2.36 GiB (99%)
Writing library                          : x264 core 142
Encoding settings                        : cabac=0 / ref=1 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x1:0x111 / me=hex / subme=5 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=0 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=0 / trellis=0 / 8x8dct=0 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / threads=6 / lookahead_threads=1 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=0 / weightp=0 / keyint=30 / keyint_min=16 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=10 / rc=abr / mbtree=1 / bitrate=22528 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.41 / aq=1:1.00
Color primaries                          : BT.709
Transfer characteristics                 : BT.709
Matrix coefficients                      : BT.709
Color range                              : Limited

Audio
ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : AAC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile                           : LC
Codec ID                                 : 40
Duration                                 : 14mn 28s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 192 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Channel positions                        : Front: L R
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 19.9 MiB (1%)

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So any news regarding my problem ?

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The specs look fine. You could downgrade to 2.01.86 to see if this MP4 is affected by the new MP4 bug that showed up in that firmware revision and/or upload a 1 min sample so people could try it on their players.

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Thanks, I have downgraded it and it plays now over USB !! Streaming is unusable because it stutters, I dont know why, WDTV is connected with a cable to N router with 150 Mbps speed and laptop is on wireless. Why doesnt WD solve that with new firmare because I see that a lot of users have that problem with mp4 files ? And I would really like to stream those 23 Mbps videos over air.

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Who knows why WD takes so long? I’m pretty sure though you’d lose the stutter when playing from wired LAN.

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Well I have already gave up complete wireless setup for 4 Mbps movies and WDTV is connected with cable but I dont want to drag cables with my laptop. They should really fix that in firmwares because 150 Mbps router should be more than enough.

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Sure, but the Wifi module in the WDTV isn’t that fast.