So far I’m really happy with it…don’t need to remove the chapters/metadata information with FFMPEG of the mp4 files now. They’re finally played directly by the device!
Even with the positive comments I allowed the update to proceed with some trepidation. But I’m pleased to say that it seems to be an improvement! I had several MP4 files that would not play before unless I ran it through a “re-mux” program (suggested on this forum in another thread). Now those files play just fine eliminating that extra step of re-muxing them.
One thing I did notice that seems to be missing. When playing a video and then going into X2 fast forward I had noticed that in the previous firmware if you hit the right double arrow (Next Track) it would advance by 10 minutes. I don’t think this was in the user manual so I’m not sure this was an official feature. But in this new version this doesn’t seem to work any more.
However I’m willing to trade better file compatibility for an undocumented feature.
I only had a short time to play around with it but I could have sworn that it wouldn’t do the 10 min skip even at the x2 speed. But I’ll try it again and report back here.
But as I said before even if the skip is gone its still better off being able to play more formats without having to process them further bafore sending them to the WD.
You are right! The 10 min skip is still there but only at 2X playback. I could have sworn that it didn’t do it the first time I tried this new firmware but I tried it several times this morning and it worked just fine.
So far this new firmware seems, at least to me, to be working quite well.
I only watch stuff off a local USB hard drive. The problem only started after the mid-December firmware update. We watch a show (or two or three), go to start the next one and the orange arrow spins forever. Takes a Device Restart to get it working again. Have done a Device ReSET once to try to clear it up, without any luck.
Just received a WDTV Media Player for Christmas and have updated firmware to 1.02.17 from the initial 1.00.42 that came on it. I also have a WDTV Live Media Hub purchased in 2010 and love it!!! Got the WDTV Media Player for the bedroom and was a little disappointed that it didn’t have Netflix(yet has vudu???). Yeah, the main reason I got it was to stream movies I have stored on the 2TB USB drive attached to the WDTV Live Media Hub…but the only real “problem” I have encountered on the Media Player is that the 39 apps that are adRise, Inc. apps do not work at all(all other apps seem fine). 26 of the adRise apps give a white blank screen and the other 13 load but hang up on the “…loading” screen whenever you select something to play. It is hard-wired Ethernet to a 15Mbps DSL broadband modem/router and I don’t have any other problems streaming from DirecTV, AppleTV, etc. in my entertainment center. I contacted adRise via their website but no response thus far. Is anyone else able to use these apps???
