Does this thing handle bitratrate better than tv live?

WD Legacy Products WD TV Live Hub Discussions
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I got a wd live tv v3 and limited to 100mbps and its wired in to gigbit router

streaming 1080 mkv with hihger bitrate cause stuttering issues on spots of the movies.

if i lower the bitrate slightly its  fine but lose IQ and too time consuming

I noticed the hub comes with a gigbit lan so my question is does this player handle bitrate better than the standard tv live v3 over network?

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The 100 meg interface of the SMP is fine for 1080p MKV.   I have a number of them and haven’t had any stuttering issues like you describe.

A Blu-ray disk, btw, is limitted to ~40 mbit/sec …

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lol its not fine at all countless threads discuss this

also want to note it plays from attached storage fine

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I think you will find the countless threads are based on wireless streaming.

I stream full blurays too/on this and it does not get higher than that.

The max from a Bluray is about 40 odd, so no issues whatsoever.

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minedune wrote:

lol its not fine at all countless threads discuss this

I don’t think that’s true…  At least not with any conclusions that are supportable…

I use the SMP the majority of the time, and I’ve never had any stuttering issues that weren’t related to a firmware bug.  And with the last two or three releases of firmware, I’ve not seen any.

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I,m pulling mine off an NAS wired and bluray isos work flawless

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I rip my BDs lossless with full bitrate. They play flawlessly from the internal HDD and the USB external drive. When I was on a wired network they also played fine.

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1080p MKV are not limited to ~40 mbit/sec …they actually spike frequently.

All the MKV i have are exceed 40 mbit

Anyways i just checked my premethus mkv and the spike “stutter” occurs at 9 megabytes

this is why im getting stuttering just over network its acceding the nics threshhold.

 

couple examples

 

Anways i returned it and got a Micca EP600 G2

 

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haha really.

Well I streamed the full bluray from my PC to the Hub with no issues so good luck with that.

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minedune wrote:

1080p MKV are not limited to ~40 mbit/sec …they actually spike frequently.

All the MKV i have are exceed 40 mbit

 

Anyways i just checked my premethus mkv and the spike “stutter” occurs at 98 megabytes

 

Your rip is badly encoded.

The maximum “Transfer” rate of Video/Audio data for Bluray is 48 megabits per second PER THE STANDARD, and only 40 megabits per second for video.

Besides that, BDs are encoded either using at AVC HP@L4.1 profile or VC-1 AP@L3 profile.

    The AVC profile has a published maximum of 62.5 megabits per second.

    The VC-1 profile has a published maximum of 45 megabits per second.

There’s no way a legitimate bluray rip has a 90+ megabit per second bit rate, sorry…

So, I guess I’ll rephrase my statement. 

The SMP has no problems playing COMPLIANT full BD rips, but yeah, it may not be able to play incorrectly encoded BDs…