Owner of a WDTV Generation 1 and never had any problems playing any of my files.
Purchased a WDTV Live Streaming (SMP) and had nothing but problems with it from Day One.
From the off, always noticed it was slow. As slow as the Gen 1, in many cases even slower.
But the main issue:
According to firmware 1.10.13 - the issue of playing files encoded with Handbrake 0.9.6 has supposedly been fixed.
For me however, it has not. I have lots of videos encoded using 0.9.6 and when trying to play any of them sometimes these will play for a bit, but eventually **bleep** out - so cannot successfully view any of these MKV’s to completion.
Just to mention, this is all via the USB port - I have tried the port on the side and the port on the front - makes no difference. I have tried Western Digital drives (500gb, 1TB, 2TB) and the same for Hitachi drives - but again, no difference.
I am now on firmware 1.15.10 and the issue remains the same.
I know about the MKVMerge method - for some videos this worked, for others it did not.
So I would like to confirm, the issue is not yet fixed.