Hi Techie Legends,
I purchased a WD My Passport Wireless Pro (MPWP) to store our iTunes movie library on it. I wanted the kids and ourselves to be able to watch movies on our iPads when we are travelling and camping without requiring any type of internet connection or cables. I can get the movies onto the MPWP and play them using Quicktime on my Mac mini desktop no probs. However when my iPad (Gen 5) is connected to the MPWP (wired or wireless) I am unable to play the same movies. The MPWP asks me if I want to download the .m4v movie file. I click Download. It downloads but will not open and play? I have tried the Plex app as instructed by the instructions within the MPWP but it comes up with- “Payback Error. This server is not powerful enough to convert video”. I did a search on what appeared to be similar topics that are a few years old now and there wasn’t fixes I could really understand. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks and stay safe
Kev
Hi,
The mobile or tablet devices are not nearly as powerful or flexible as a desktop PC. They have special requirements when it comes to playing back media. Such errors occur when the system running your Plex Media Server isn’t capable of transcoding (converting) content.
Hi Jonty,
Thanks for your reply and happy Easter mate. So do you know if can I do what I I trying to do? I paid $300 for the MPWP to be able to connect multiple devices (Apple) to it as it said it can. Really frustrated with this as nobody from WD or Apple seems to have a solution for me. I find it very hard to believe that nobody else in the world has had this issue and a solution is not available
