Giving up on WD TV Live Streaming

WD Legacy Products WD TV Live Streaming
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I have giving up on the WD TV Live Streaming device.  My whole library is MP4 and the device can not play them.  I have 3 different devices all work, including a WD TV HD LIVE.  

I have recommended to friends and family not to purchase this device.  It is sad that WD would release a device that can not play the same files as previous WDTV devices.  

I’m tired of being a “beta” tester. 

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My WDTV2 plays MP4s just fine…indeed I find it the most reliable format to play on the WDTV2.

When one is struggleing with something, I guess it is always easier to blame the other instead of the guy in the mirror.

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I wish it was true.  I have opened two tickets and posted on the Live Steaming Issues forum.  ( http://community.wdc.com/t5/WD-TV-Live-Streaming-Issue/Streaming-MP4-from-NAS-plays-only-20secs/idc-p/282064#M)   I have spend hours documenting the problem and showing it was mp4 files.  The likely cause is the AAC audio (320 bit/VBR).

You might take a look.  There are hundreds of users with the same problem.  I reported my issue just 3 days after the device went on sale.  

Still no resolution to the problem.  

I guess it is easier to defend the crappy device and blame the user than to search this forum for other users having the same problem!

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Other than the network error I’ve documented with MKVs, I find that MKV is by far the most “reliable” format on the WD given its multiple different combinations of Video / Audio support.

MP4s have SEVERAL issues:

   1-  VOBSUB subtitles make the screen flash.

   2-  Secondary audio tracks aren’t accessible.

   3-  AAC audio in MP4 is often out of sync.

I feel your pain;  I have a handful of MP4s / M4Vs left over for testing, but I generally also convert them over to MKV…

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Speaking of which, is there a handy way of batch converting videos without losing resolution?

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MKVMerge will do it quite quickly, but I don’t know off-hand if it’s natively batchable.   

In windows, a quick batch file would make it batchable, though…

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In mmg.exe you can add files to a queue.