My understanding is that WD TV Media Player ver 1.02.17 is the same as the version that should be rolled out to fix 2.02.32 on the SMP.
So I broke down and bought the Media Player, upgraded to 1.02.17 and immediately came across this bug.
When resuming a video, the movement keys (FF, REW, and Pause) don’t work. You have to exit out of the video, and come back in, and sometimes, after trying a few times, it might work, but usually not.
The only way to make it work for sure is to exit, come back in and start from the beginning, skip to the point you were at, and then those keys will work.
I noticed this once or twice after I upgraded my SMP to 2.01.86, but on the Media Player, it’s frequent. Never saw it before 2.01.86.
Also, when using FF and then pressing play, it will sometimes kick you out of the video, back to the list.
The other reason I bought this Media Player is I was curious about one of the newer services. Unfortunately, that service is not suported in my area. And after playing with some geo-unblocking, it appears Media Player doesn’t support geo-unblocking. Apparently the SMP does, but not this “newer” model.
It’s being returned tomorrow.
Words cannot describe how pathetic the latest releases have become.