Noob - Bluray playback suport

WD Legacy Products WD TV Live Streaming
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I am new to this device and wanted to check on the Bluray playback support at this time. I searched the forum and found alot of issues in the past, but I am not sure if they have since been resolved with new firmware.

 - I understand that menus are not supported (not a problem)

 - If the bluray is ripped as a Full-Disc ISO, will the unit select the right track and play correctly?

 - are there issues with certain movies that have advanced pop-up content (Ironman2 for example)

 - I saw a thread that NFS is better/faster than Samba, is this still the case?

 - Is there a good go-to guide for setting up the unit with all the coverart and such?

Currently I use a Dune player for most of my movie playback, ripping my discs with DVDfab as full disc. But I would like to start using this device instead since it supports Hulu, Vudu, etc.

thanks!

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Just bumping it back up to see if anyone might have some feedback for me… thanks!

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Even without a menu the WDTV will play the largest m2ts, so if your BD is split into several you’re better off using mkv.

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I don’t believe it will play the bluray.iso format.  At least I tried it once and it showed unsupported.  I had to convert it to mkv.  You can use DVDFab to rip direct to MKV.   I hear NFS is faster to some extent.  Though I could never get it to work with my Synology NAS and I have tried many times.  SMB works just fine though without any limitations that I can see.