Hi,
I wish to manage video content for 6 WD Media players (Menu displays in a restaurant).
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Is it possible, from my home computer, upload content to specific WD MPs so, playing the content wold not involve straming from the web but rely on internal drive?
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Does WD MP contain an internal disk of some kind or it is necessarily a USB memory stick or USB hard drive?
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Can we save 6 different contents on one of the 6 WD MP drives (such as a USB memory stick), so that the 5 other can download their specific content and run them in infinite loop?
Thanks
Marc
- The only WD Media Player with an internal drive is the WDTV Live Hub
All other WD Media Players require either a USB Flash/Hard Drive or Network Streaming for local content.
Mapping 6 WD Media Players with attached Storage to your home computer and then uploading content is likely possible (if all of them are on the same LAN) … but a bit of a headache scenario.
Gonna have to make sure they all have a different IP Address.
And if you’re Windows 10 you’re gonna have to re-enable security flawed SMB1 Protocol … cus WD Media Players only support SMB1 and not the more secure SMB2/3
An easier way is to create a share on your PC and then setup all 6 WD Media Players to stream the content from that 1 share.
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If you have 6 different “Contents” then you need to upload to all 6 WD Media Players … they can’t download content from each other.
WD Media Players “Basic” Media players which are 10 Years old and discontinued long ago … don’t expect them to perform miracles or complicated tasks.
Thanks for reply,
I will check manufacturing date, specific model, etc.
But, to make displays more reliable by not streaming from a remote source, can they select a remote content and put it on their local storage?
About mapping players so I can from the remote computer, I suppose you were talking about setting diff IP for each and program some routing of some kind in the modem-router, so Wan reequest would be well dispatched to the right LAN device?
Is it easier if the computer is local to the LAN?