Chapter Searching and Navigation in Live Plus?

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I just purchased the Live Plus because I had read that this new Box would navigate both normal DVD’s and Blu Rays back-uped on Hard Drives.  I have the “over a year” old WD HD GEN 2 box that no longer gets firmware updates, bought this new unit expecting the newer features, and I can’t move forward or reverse-chapter to chapter as it says directly on the packaging that it would do…

Am I the only guy wondering why this is?

What am I missing here?

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What container are the “backups” in?

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Used DVD Fab and put them on an external hard drive.  Did this for both standard DVD’s and BD.

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m2ts…for BD

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Is it the file type that is the trouble?  Can anyone else navigate from chapter to chapter in movies?

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I’m thinking that it is, but I’m trying to confirm that.

My immediate guess is that when WD says that skipping chapter-to-chapter is done with the “Prev” and “Next” buttons if supported, that it isn’t supported for .m2ts files.  I don’t have a Live Plus myself, to know for sure.

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What is strange to me is, My WD HD Gen 2 player would not navigate Chapters, but I also bought a Seagate Theater Plus Player that would navigate SD DVD back-ups on my hard drive, but it had so many other bugs that were never fixed , and it would not navigate BD movies…

I purchased this new unit thinking that this was my way to fix the many bugs that the original WD HD had and the bugs that the Seagate had. 

I was simply trying to find one unit that would work.   Is there such a unit?

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You’re asking the wrong guy. :smileyvery-happy:

I’m still using a Gen1 WDTV… not the Live or the Live Plus.

Hopefully someone with a Live Plus can help you soon.

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The WDTV Live/+ doesn’t support BD navigation at all and thus won’t do the chapters.  

The WDTV Live/+ DOES support DVD navigation and chapter skip works fine using the |< and >| buttons, or by selecting the chapter via the menu.

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I cannot get it to skip chapters on Regular DVD files.  It when you press the >l it causes the movie to restart. 

Any ideas?

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Figured it out…you have to press enter when you get to the Video_Folder and then press play on the first chapter folder listed, the movie plays, and then it allows you to select chapters and skip ahead normally.

Sheesh, the ■■■■ you have to do to get this stuff to work…LOL

Won’t work on BD though…will it ever, maybe in a Firmware??? or maybe the next purchase of yet another media player???  LOL

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Nope…  WD has already said that they aren’t going to support BD navigation due to the requirement for Java.

You CAN rip a BD to MKV using the latest versions of Handbrake and it will support chapters.

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DVD FAB has the ability to make the BD MKV.  I am attempting to try it right now.