Hey guys, been a while
I have a WD TV LIve HD media player (not the newer ones) looks like this:
http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=1003&lang=en
I was having an issue playing a larger then usual .MP4 file so I have always played .MP4 files but not this big. That’s a whole nother problem but anyhow I thought about upgrading the firmware so I do have a update but after reading the release notes I don’t know if I want to.
I have a 3 TB WD Mk Book Essential thats connected to the media player, I notice the release notes say "
We have temporarily blocked USB mounting of Advanced Format (4k sector) HDD greater than 2TBs."
http://support.wdc.com/download/notes/WDTV_Live_Release_Notes_1.06.15_V.pdf
So with that I believe I should stay with the current version right? My 3 TB works as of now.
Thanks in advance
The 2TB thing is only about firmware older than 1.05.
Ok nevermind guys on the "
mounting of Advanced Format (4k sector) HDD greater than 2TBs."
I see what I did I scolled down to far on the PDF for the release notes on current fiirmware version.
Updating now.
Thanks Tony, I see that now. Kick me I feel so stupid
Now that I’m here, any idea why the .MP4 won’t play?
Please post the full TEXT output of MEDIAINFO for such a file.
http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net
Will this do?
General
Unique ID : 238451677567678871259280917507928540740 (0xB3641F637AE9A82EAC164D2E79D0C644)
Complete name : E:\My Videos\Movies\Replacements\Safe.mp4
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 2
File size : 2.58 GiB
Duration : 1h 34mn
Overall bit rate : 3 928 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2012-08-24 19:10:37
Writing application : mkvmerge v5.6.0 ('Kenya Kane') built on May 27 2012 16:44:04
Writing library : libebml v1.2.3 + libmatroska v1.3.0
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.2
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 5 frames
Muxing mode : Header stripping
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 1h 34mn
Nominal bit rate : 3 509 Kbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 816 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.35:1
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.093
Writing library : x264 core 125 r2200 999b753
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=9 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=6 / lookahead_threads=1 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=240 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=60 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=3509 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / vbv_maxrate=31250 / vbv_bufsize=31250 / nal_hrd=none / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : A_AAC
Duration : 1h 34mn
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Menu
00:00:00.054 : en:00:00:00.054
Hey guys it has to be the file, I downloaded a different one 2.39G and it plays fine so I’m assuming the file is corrupt.
parnott
December 16, 2012, 7:08pm
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Just a guess, but it is not an mp4. It is an mkv.
See here in the mediainfo:
Format : Matroska
Probably confusing the device.
Yea I see what your saying, could very well be the problem
Off the file I just downloaded:
General
Complete name : E:\My Videos\Movies\Comedy\Drama\Hope Springs.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : isom
File size : 2.32 GiB
Duration : 1h 39mn
That did the trick parnott
Changed the extension from MP4 to MKV and its playing
Thanks for the help on both issues.
