A question about an issue fast forwarding/rewinding some movies

WD Legacy Products WD TV Live Streaming
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95% of what I stream via DLNA to the WDTV Live box works perfectly.

A very small amount amount of files exhibits the following problems

*The file will play fine from start to finish, but you can not fast forward or rewind the file

*The onscreen display will show the incorrect time for length of movie (instead of saying it is 2 hours, it will say something like 21 seconds). As such I can also not use the feature “jump to time” because it does not appear to have the knowledge of the time of the movie.

I have noticed this on both mkv and mp4 files, and I believe all are h.264 encoded.

Does anyone have an idea as to what the issue might be?

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Hello there,

Does this happen when you try to play the videos through network shares on the unit? Sometimes it happens with media servers, i had this issue with my Smart TV when i try to Stream a movie through DLNA on the TV. 

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I do not know how to use network shares.

I have plex running on my desktop with DLNA enabled and then I connect the WDTV Live to it via the media server connection.

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Since 95% of your files are ok, and you’re having problems with the other 5% of them … then i reckon there’s something wrong with the files.

1st thing i would try, is remuxing them  (this takes a few mins, and doesent affect video/audio quality … it just repacks the file)

For the Mkv, try MKVMerge  install MKVToolnix  http://www.videohelp.com/tools/MKVtoolnix

also dunno if this will work, you can try adding this line of code in as well   --clusters-in-meta-seek

  1. Click on the Video Stream  2. Select "extra Options 3. copy and paste the code above ↑

clusters.jpg

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Thank you Joey, I will try that.

I should note that while these small amount of files don’t run perfectly on WDTV Live, I have no problems running the exact same files via PLEX using DLNA on my PS3.