It kind of freezes up and won’t respond. Then eventually, with huge latency, it may start again or stop FFing…sometimes after that the **bleep** ticker on the bottom stays up ect…I’m upgrading to the newest firmware right now so we’ll see if it helps but I doubt it. What can I do to avoid this? Does everyone’s do this? I use a seagate 1.5TB hard-drive.
Is there some way I should organize my hard drvie to stop this from happening?
And I’m playing out of hard drive. Once again, responds fine in menu, then once I play an MKV file from my hard drive if I FF it or pause it it’s very difficult to stop the FFing or unpause it. This makes using the machine **bleep** near impossible. Please, any help at all. I just got new firmware the problem is still there. I reset it (on the side) the problem is still there. Is it my hard drive? Is this thing just a POS? Anyone else have this problem?
Mine NEVER works. And it does it w/ every video. It’s so annoying it’s unusable unless I want to start and the beggining of movie and never pause it or FF it. I’ve got to find a fix for this.
Once installed, you should be able to right-click on files in Explorer and select “MediaInfo”. The program will open and display the codec and container information for that file. In ‘View’ select Text. Copy paste the results. :)
My own experience with MKV files is that FF/RW is not perfect but I can FF at 2x or 4x without any drama. RW seems buggier and 2x is certainly a lot slower than 2x should be! Pausing is never really an issue, for me at least.
Have you tried unplugging your Live from the power source and leaving it for 5-10 minutes? Sounds silly but that sorted out a random issue I was having (M2TS files wouldn’t play).
Do the most troublesome MKV files have chapters by any chance?
Am going to media info right now, thanks so much for the response this is driving me crazy. No chapters really, same problem w/ every MKV file (I have about 1TB worth of them). Anyway will post back mediainfo asap. Thanks again.
Ok, not really sure what “output” you want me to read off but here’s is some of the info I’m seeing on one of the MKV’s that has this problem (although all of them do).
Video stream: 13mbps (13.3 MBPS), 1920*1080 (16:9), at 23.976 fps, AVC (Container profile=Unknown@4.1)…
I suppose that’s my next try. I’m never run any media through the WD Live that wasn’t connected by USB physically to my HD…it’s a 1.5TB Seagate. I was under the impression a physical connection would always be better than streaming over a network…I suppose I’ll figit with some network sharing tomorrow and see how that goes. IDK though…I mean I bout this thing to run 1080p HD stuff to my HD tv (otherwise there was no freaking purpose for it) so …that would be truly disapointing if that was what the problem is. Like I said all videos are 720p at the least…