OSD for audio/subtitles - how to turn this off?

WD Legacy Products WD TV Live Streaming
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I’m using the WDTV Live gen 3 (no internal drive) and I have this problem. Every single video file plays and a on screen display of the audio and subtitle comes up. For presentation to clients or for screenings at a movie theater, this is completely unacceptable.

Will this be fixed? If not, I need to return this unit immediately and consider other brands.

2

This has been requested for ages but WD just doesn’t care. You might get lucky with the modded firmware though, haven’t tried it myself.

3

It can be fixed with themes.  No need for firmware hacks.

Search in the Hub theme section-- many of the themes are also compatible with the SMP.

4

yeah, it’s pretty easy to remove :wink: (6kb theme remove’s audio/subtitle osd from video/dvd/iso playback)

http://www.mediafire.com/?f0lznfbddb0h2ip

5

Even better. Is there a way to have an animated screensaver, by theming the SMP to play back a video or something?

6

I just downloaded every theme and tried each one and the audio data still shows up on every single video file.

7

Okay, so I have this zip file and the XML files… Yeehaw, what do I do with them?

Copying them to the root of my drive didn’t do anything. Still getting these annoying audio on screen displays.

I am getting VERY frustrated. I think I’m going to return both of my WDTV’s if this can’t be fixed. I used to recommend these from the old models to anyone, but I cannot in good conscience continue to support a product that doesn’t support its users.

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I cannot support WDTV because it isn’t simple. I’m not a programmer. I don’t know what a SMP is. I didn’t think I’d have to go routing around on multiple forums and attempts hacks to do something simple on the device.

9

No hacks involved at all.

It’s a three step process.

Launch the Web UI.

Go to the THEME section.

Load the theme file.

Done.

I don’t know how it could be simpler…  

SMP, by the way, is the box we’re all talking about.  Streaming Media Player.

10

Simple… Where is the web UI? 

I don’t see it under any menu or sub menu. User Themes are under APPEARANCE.

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I don’t guess you’ve read the manual, then?

http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/?id=282&type=25

See page 43 thru 45. (in the English version, at least…)

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Stil - as I try to upload this via the user interface via my wireless network through itnernet explorer - it says PLEASE WAIT.

I let it ride for over 40 minutes (on the 7k zip file), then let it go overnight for over 9 hours - and I’m still waiting.

Yeah - it couldn’t be easier - if it wasn’t a piece of junk.

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http://community.wdc.com/t5/WD-TV-Live-Streaming-Discussions/Transfering-Theme-files-how-long-is-too-long/m-p/561302#U561302