Quick Codec Question

WD Legacy Products WD TV Live & Live Plus
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Hello.

I’m planing to buy TV Live and have one quick question regarding codecs.

Is specs it’s said that TV Live support m2ts container but no information about codecs that are supported.

I can see TS/TP/M2T (MPEG1/2/4, AVC, VC-1) and as i think it means that ts\tp\m2t containers support MPEG1/2/4, AVC, VC- codecs. But nothing about m2ts supported codecs.

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Per manual-

.M2TS

Video:
MPEG1/2/4
AVC
VC-1

Audio:
MPEG Audio
Dolby Digital
DTS

Footnotes-

An audio receiver is required for multi-channel surround sound digital output.

Video notes:

  1. MPEG-2 MP@HL up to 1920x1080p24, 1920x1080i30, or 1280x720p60 resolution.

  2. MPEG4.2 ASP@L5 Rectangular shape video decoding up to 1280x720p30 resolution, support for B Pictures, data partitioning and error resiliency. No support for global motion compensation (GMC).

  3. WMV9/VC-1 MP@HL up to 1280x720p60 (<90% of the P-picture macroblocks have 4 motioin vectors) or 1920x1080p24 resolution. Up to 1280x720p30 or 1920x1080i25 resolution if unconstrained 4MV bitstream.

  4. VC-1 AP@L3 up to 1920x1080i30 (<60% of the B-picture macroblocks have 4 motion vectors), 1920x1080p24, or 1280x720p60 resolution. Up to 1920x1080i25, 1920x1080p24, or 1280x720p60 resolution if unconstrained 4MV bitstream.

  5. MPEG-4.10 (H.264) BP@L3 up to 720x480p30 or 720x576p25 resolution, including FMO and ASO.

  6. MPEG-4.10 (H.264) MP@L4.1 and HP@L4.1 up to 1920x1080p24, 1920x1080i30, or 1280x720p60 resolution (constrained to match BD and HD-DVD specifications), 180 Mbin/s maximum for CABAC streams.

3

Found it in an appendix. Thanks.

4

Glad you found it, but pay very close attention to those Video footnotes. Anything out of spec will likely have problems.

5

Main purpose is to play files from blu-ray discs that  have M2TS containers with mpeg-4 video and dda or dts audio.

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Just have bought TV Live + WD Elements Desctop. M2TS with MPEG-4 AVC codec and DTS audio works just fine.