Subtitle & Storage Questions

WD Legacy Products WD TV Live Hub Discussions
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I have two questions about the lastest WD TV Live Hub before I go out and buy.

I have blurays remuxed into MKV files with PGS subtitles embeded made from MakeMKV, will the WD Live Hub play these embeded PGS subtitles in a remuxed MKV file?

Second Question is can you replace or upgrade the internal 1TB storage with more, and if so does it need to be a western digital harddrive?

Those are my two questions any info and help on those topics would be great, thanks!

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IIRC, embedded PGS in an MKV will only work if the PGS track is zlib compressed.

The free “mkvinfo” tool will tell you that.   And if it’s not, a quick pass through MKVMerge, enabling zlib compression for the subtitle track, will correct it.

  can you replace or upgrade the internal 1TB storage with more

I don’t believe it’s possible, but I don’t know for sure.

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It’s been said that the HDD is replaceable, but as there are few choices in laptop-sized HDDs larger than 1tb you are probably better off with an external USB HD that also makes transferring large video files between the Hub and PC a lot easier than using the network connection.