I’ve got the WD TV LIVE, and testet following firmwares: 1.06.15, 1.05.04, 1.04.22
With all i got the same problem.
After watching a movie (doesn’t matter whitch codecs and container (mkv with h264 or avi with xvid e.g.)) after ~10 minutes, pause, stop, rw and fw is not possible anymore. At the beginning it works fine.
And it doesn’t matter if i use as source Networt Shares or a directly plugged in usb drive.
So if i pressed pause, the movie is still going on. first you just hear audio and you are back in the file explorer. if you then enter the movie again, you got the pictures back, but with the blue waiting circle.
that **bleep** so hard. the wd tv live is absolutly useless if i can’t pause a film.
i’ve testet now so much, it don’t work.
doesn’t matter if i format the external wd drive ntfs, fat32 oder ext2/3. pause the film just works the first minutes, after ~10 minutes it’s not possible anymore.
Unplug your WD from the network and watch your media via USB and see if the problem still happens with the network completely disconnected.
If it does NOT happen, then it’s something on your network that’s causing a process in the WDTV to crash until it’s rebooted. There’s been a few other folks report similar symptoms.
If it STILL happens, the issue is definately with your media.
now i test play video with plugged in network, but i put the seagate nas out of the network. that seems to work too, so i guess the nas makes the issue.
I am having a very simar problem with my WDTV Live. I have tried just about everything I can think of. I was talking to a friend just today and he had a different idea about the problem. He think it could be due to overheating. My device, is in fact, inside a cabnet and on top of another component. I am in the process of moving the WDTV to a cooler spot to see how things work. Also, unpluging the network cable could reduce heat because it won’t engage the communications chip. So, this could be a long shot but I am going to see if keeping this device more cool yields better results.
interesting point with the overheating problem. i’ve read something similar in the german amazon recessions, but with no words like my problems.
so i tried to place now at a cooler place. before the WD TV LIVE lie horizontal on my wii, no i put it alone and vertical. now i’m watching again a movie from nas source…same failure! so i guess for me it is my nas.
Well, I can report that a few good things so far. Here is a list of what I have done in the past 24 hours.
Stopped using optical out for audio and configured the WD and my receiver to just use digital audio via HDMI.
Made sure my HDMI settings were set to auto and double-checked a few other settings in the WD.
Unplugged my Network cable and connected a usb hard drive to the WD
Moved the WD out from my AV cabinet and away from the receiver (it was laying on top of the receiver where it gets pretty hot)
At this point I played some MKV files from the USB drive for a few hours and had no playback issues.
Next, I checked my NAS settings and turned off any un-needed services that were running and cleaned up some unused shares, etc…
Reconnected my network cable to the WD.
At this point, I played the same files from the USB drive with the network cable inserted. Again, so far so good. I am just now started to play a file form the network. I will report back how things are going after some more testing.
