How are the thumbnails now? Do they still have the annoying folder icon in the middle of them thumnail, making the acutal thumnail itself useless because you can’t see the picutre?
EDIT: I see that there is a thread already addressing that this issue hasn’t been fixed
Still no BBC iPlayer, how difficult can this be to add?
WD, give the UK some content we can use seeing that we get charged more for your equipment here in the UK & end up the last to get the full use of it.
Nearly all other Media players have this content and I am now looking for another suitable player from a manufacturer that listens to is customers. ( Loads of comments & votes to get this added over the last year )
I’ve always used WD equipment but no longer. ( Wdtv Mini - Wdtv Live - 4 x 1tb ext hd - 2 x 1tb hd in my server )
1 Customer ( my gear ) = approx £600.
Loosing customers who spend decent money with you, WD you should be a little more worried.
Sorry for the rant ( probably in the wrong section )
Garp
OK, some things works fine but I STILL see two bugs:
when skipping chapters in a DVD the info bar STILL doesn’t go away, I have to push ENTER twice in order to hide it
Facebook STILL doesn’t work at all, I can’t login to facebook yet
ricardorb6 wrote:
OK, some things works fine but I STILL see two bugs:
- when skipping chapters in a DVD the info bar STILL doesn’t go away, I have to push ENTER twice in order to hide it
- Facebook STILL doesn’t work at all, I can’t login to facebook yet
I did log into Facebook with 1.04.10, and I did log in again with 1.04.17. Sure it’s not a username problem?
Hi Flector, which usb hub are you using with WDTV Live?
Thanks!
No more rewind nor Fast Forward!!!
HELP!!!
I am aware that I have reported this problem twice before (so you needn’t remind me that I have already done so…)
.tsk .tsk …
===>>> When changing the WORKGROUP name, the network attempts to start. After 30 seconds or so a new panel appears telling you that the network failed to start … RETRY or CANCEL. The FUNCTIONs performed by these two buttons on this panel are reversed. It is not critical for this menu and the ED TV Live but it makes me wonder if there are other menus out there whose choices are also reversed or wrong wrong that could be causing confusing results for some people …
For me, reporting this is becoming a bit of a laugh …
Makes me wonder if anyone at WD actually sees the problem reported in this forum.
or
May be software folks are afraid to touch this bug in case some other functions are wrecked or disabled …
ricardorb6 wrote:
OK, some things works fine but I STILL see two bugs:
- when skipping chapters in a DVD the info bar STILL doesn’t go away, I have to push ENTER twice in order to hide it
- Facebook STILL doesn’t work at all, I can’t login to facebook yet
I did log into Facebook with 1.04.10, and I did log in again with 1.04.17. Sure it’s not a username problem?
It’s not a username problem because with the previous firmware I had to remove a +(plus) simbol from the password to be able to login and it worked for a moment, after that it hasn’t work anymore.
Since updating, I get no sound with MP4/5.1 CH files. If I switch settings to “Stereo” under Audio/Video it works. Using optical connection to Onkyo TX-SR302. Anyone else having this problem?
There are still login issues with deezer.
i get no media in folder after going to my playlist.
if i select my account from the sign in screen, my playlists appear.
Deezer also stopped playing midway through my playlist. I had to reboot the box to get it working again.
No issues with the update here. Accessing samba shares on a NAS box, wired. Again, did not have to reset or do anything with the network logins. Just took the update, let it reboot. It kills me when I read all the nay-sayers.
^ Lucky you.
My network shares on my DNS323 will no longer open. All it says is “Can’t access this share”. Tried everything, rebooting, restore defaults, clear login info, still won’t go. Surprisingly Windows Shares are working better now, but the SMB share is what I need.
1.04.10V roll back here I come!
If you add an Icon to the Mediaplayer dashboard with a mcode there is no way to remove it again.
Since Version 1.04.10 and 1.04.17 I have very bad perfomance over network (mostly with mkv). Somtimes I can’t get access at all, somtime it takes a very long time and somtimes I have no sound after 4 - 5 seconds or I have slow motion pictures with or without sound.
Other things work fine so far, except that I hate it to reboot the WD as I mostly lose my hdmi settings and I miss the 1080p23,9xx framerate settings since beta 1.03.3x.
Edit: Certainly I always load the factory settings after a firmware update
Edit2: I have made a rollback to 1.03.49. Now I have the same perfomance problems over wired network. Perhaps I have an internal network problem that cause the bad performance (I use two fritzbox dsl-router. The second fritzbox seem to have a speed problem at the moment. As soon as I find the time I will reflash the fritzbox).
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2 x WD TV LIve
TVs: Sony KDL-W5500E and LG47LD450
Installed v1.04.17 today using the automatic update process. Very straightforward without any need to reset the WDTVLIVE so far. My unit is connected wirelessly and so far hasn’t skipped a beat. This firmware has certainly fixed the USB keyboard lag issue (I use a Logitech Wii wireless keyboard via a USB hub which is shared with the wireless 11n network dongle) and in my experience overall menu responsiveness - which noticably lagged on the previous firmware - is also much improved. I realise it is still early days for this installation and will certainly update this post if I encounter any bugs.
MikeTNT wrote:
Edit: Certainly I always load the factory settings after a firmware update
You should do it before as well to set the player to a defined state.
MikeTNT wrote:
Since Version 1.04.10 and 1.04.17 I have very bad perfomance over network (mostly with mkv). Somtimes I can’t get access at all, somtime it takes a very long time and somtimes I have no sound after 4 - 5 seconds or I have slow motion pictures with or without sound.
Other things work fine so far, accept that I hate it to reboot the WD as I mostly lose my hdmi settings and I miss the 1080p23,9xx framerate settings since beta 1.03.3x.
Edit: Certainly I always load the factory settings after a firmware update
My MKVs are playing fine from a NAS running Windowx XP. However, it takes ages to start the MKV playback (about 10 seconds). Previous versions took less time that, and my other players (Xtreamer and TViX N1) start the MKV playback almost instantaneously (less than 3 seconds after I press “Play”).
However, the worse thing with WDTV Live, that got even worse with firmwaer 1.04.x is the playback of MTS files from my HD camcorder (Canon HF200), also stored on my NAS running windows XP. In firmwares 1.03.x/1.02.x, the playback of MTS files took ages to start as well, and since the camcorder saves each scene in a separate MTS file, it is simply impossible to watch my home movies on WDTV Live. To make things worse, the firmware 1.04.x is even WORSE. The MTS playback seems to start a little faster than the previous versions, but it plays back the first 5 seconds with NO SOUND. After this, the video stops, the audio playback starts, and the image keeps still until the audio reaches the point where the video was, and then the playback continues normally.
Well, I can say I am an experienced multimedia player user, since I have a WDTV Live, a TViX N1, and a Xtreamer. I also had in the past a TViX 6500A (which I replaced by the Xtreamer).
WDTV Live is the best player for online *internet* contents (it has the best YouTube support of all players I mentioned). However,for playing back contents stored in my NAS, I have to say that WDTV Live is the worse player of all the ones I have today. It is impressive how a huge company as WD can deliver a so half-backed product…
I was really expecting that WD would release new firmwares that would improve WDTV Live, but this is not what I am seeing. Each new firmware is more a regression than an evolution. Currently I am not recommending WDTV Live to any of my friends that are on the market for a media player…
Sorry for venting it here, but that’s my impression.
Cheers,
dsouza
Although its not listed. The problems introduced in 1.04.10 with the File manager seems to have been fixed.
It highlights the options and all actions complete properly.
I still find the File Manager functionally too weak than it should be.
You can’t make folders, it doesn’t show disk space used/remaining etc.
I’m very happy otherwise with the version so far. (I used a wired internet connection)
Maybe the next media player WD introduces should also have built-in wireless. That will eliminate a lot of the
problems experienced and would surely make firmware development much easier on their part.
It would also mean freeing up a USB port for other uses.
Installed Release 1.04.17 yesterday and while playing a vob movie, paused it for 3 minutes, came back resumed and it started playing without sound, attempted to rewind, stop and resume and system rebooted.
Was able to reproduce this serverl times. Also when pausing and restarting, status bar at bottom will not go away unless you rewind a few seconds after the pause and then restart.
Turned on my WD TV Live HD this morning, saw the new update, stuck it on.
Whoops.
First, the system seems to have a problem with Samba - after startup, the first time it tries to access *any* share, it reports a failure. The second time, it works fine. Annoying, but bearable (and it also happens with the previous firmware version). The network is running a mix of Windows XP, Vista and Win7 machines - there’s also a virtualised Linux machine, but it doesn’t have any network shares.
The second and bigger problem is that it’s no longer able to play media files properly (e.g. divx-encoded AVI files): if you navigate to one and press the “ok” button, the screen goes black and you get the circular “loading” display, bu the file doesn’t actually load. However, the preview screen loads fine and if you maximise the preview to make it full-screen, it continues to play smoothly. But if you then fast-forward the video, the player takes 10-15 seconds to recover after you press play to restore 1x playback.
Is the box now doing some sort of odd pre-parse on the files? My wireless-N network is running at around 2mb a second, so there’s plenty of bandwidth for the SD-resolution stuff I’m streaming.
In any case, I think I’ll be downgrading the firmware this afternoon…
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