Video file formats

WD Legacy Products WD TV Live & Live Plus
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Hello,

I have a JVC GZ-HM200 1080P HD camcorder and I wanted to know if  the WD TV Live plays MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 AVCHD video format since this the format the video is recorded in?  I wanted to be able to transfer the video straight from my camcorder to an external USB hard drive and play it directly on my TV via the WD TV Live.

Thanks!

2

Yes the WD TV Live 1.01.00 version works perfectly with files encoded MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 AVCHD

3

Well, actually WDTV Live plays the .MTS files encoded in AVCHD but it DOES NOT SUPPORT playback of AVCHD folder structure in WDTV Live.

In fact I can navigate to the “PRIVATE\AVCHD\BDMV\STREAM” folder and playback the .MTS files from my Canon HF200, BUT (and this is a big BUT) there is a HUGE gap (black screen) between one .MTS file and the next one (it means that for every scene I recorder with the camcorder there is a black screen that takes 3 or 4 seconds until I get the next scene). So it is basically impossible to watch a family movie with dozen on MTS files (the 3 or 4 seconds each scene change is a NO GO).

Meanwhile, when I plug the SD card from my camcorder into my PS3, it RECOGNIZES the AVCHD folder structure and plays back all my recordings WITHOUT ANY gap between the scnes.

Bottom line is that WDTV Live DOES NOT support playback of AVCHD folder structure (so it does NOT support AVCHD standard) (if I am missing something here please let me now).

Please see  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVCHD to check what I mean by “AVCHD folder structure”.

I have already entered a new suggestion to WDTV live in the ideas section:

http://community.wdc.com/t5/WD-TV-Live-Ideas/AVCHD-support-OR-gapless-TS-MTS-playback/idi-p/20820

Please check the link above and give your vote to this idea so we can grab some attention from WD regarding AVCHD support.

Thanks!

drs