I’m looking for alittle more professionalism in the next WD Live TV Hub unit… something with mucle to do more, fast, and better.
I’m thinking 1mg a day of HGH and a cycle of Dianabol injected directly into the rear USB port should do the trick.
Yeah, I guess I skipped the professionalism part. :smileyvery-happy: Sorry, it’s getting late.
Seriously though, how much raw power do you expect from a $170 box that includes a TB drive? You could build an HTPC running XBMC with the type of “muscle” you want, and similar features as the HUB, but it would cost you a lot more, not including the time spent on the build and the optimization.
I have yet to hear / read of anyone overclocking their HUB so far, so I’ll wait to see if any of the hardware Guru’s on the board have a real answer for you, but I seriously doubt it. Speed is both subjective and relative. I personally find the box to be more than quick enough for my needs, but that does not discount the fact that it is not fast enough to meet yours.
Well here is an issue, as a Professional photographer, my family picture are 8-25 MB in size, and at last count, I think I have 46-47 thousand pictures on my NAS drive, and more if you count the videos.
Try playing your media library with 46,000+ picture and playing them randomly…
About every 10th ot so picture, it pauses for a couple of minutes and contunues…
Now try laying msic in the back ground.
I’d like to pay more for a better, professinal unit. I’d like to see pictures played randomly, just like my windows media center. Now that require a bit more CPU to pan tilt zoom the slide show.
I’d also like to see the title, and path of the picture on the screen in a smaller font, to identify the photo ( i sort them by date and event)… you know… Maybe we ca ask for a…
WD LIVE TV PRO HUB… ya thats it… same old device with a super charged CPU and more memory, more… more… more
I find using a minimal inteface helps. For my background image i use a solid black picture stretched to fit. For theme i use riveted by Manny or the one called dark light i think Tin Warble made it. It allows for a slightly larger cover image and condenses the movie info niceley in a box. I add all of my info to the movies and do all my cover art by hand so to not have the rotating screenshots. I think those come from the database they use when you auto update the tag info. I used to have all the videos in one folder but since i have them in catagories now. For my horror collection which is what i use the hub for i have folders a-z and one 0-9 for numbered titles. I went online and got some icons for letters and used a photo resizer to make them the size of the movie covers to display the alphabet. structure is as follows.
0-9 (folder)
0-9 art.jpg
0-9 (folder)
then your movies xml and covers inside the second folder.
I have the media library thing turned off because i am constantly moving things around. There are little speed issues once you have highlighted each cover with the remote and cached the thumbnails. Currently there are 1300 plus low bitrate horror backups in the horror folder from my collection. 300 - 450 mb each but when the hub renders them to the tv it looks like dvd quality. Hopefully some of this info is helpful to someone cheers